We’ll decorate our simple huts
And dine so festively
As if the Shechinah’s there with us
Ori Veyishi
And they may shoot their rockets
May threaten with a Scud
We shall not leave the sukkah’s walls
We ask, “Mimi efchod?”
Indeed ensconced
In confidence
We’ll sit outside our home
And revel as He shelters us
And even read a poem
The sukkah it shall guard us
Ufros sukkas shalom
To me, I know, its paltry s’chach
Is like an Iron Dome
And like the sukkah
As we trekked ‘cross
Blazing desert heat
The Anan saved
And sheltered us
From any foe we’d meet!
And those outside
Will question us
For they don’t really know
That we’re inside protected
Yitzpeneini besukko
And when I finish eating
I’ll learn under the sky
Shivti as if
I really wish
Kol yemei chayai
We’ll wave the lulav
Mightily
As if it was a spear
Announcing that our faith in Him
Says we’ve nothing to fear
They’ll threaten us
In the UN
Resha’im like Khamenei
But like the lulav
We’ll be raised
Betzur yeromemeini
Emerging from a battle
Between celestial forces
Each one vying to defend
Diametric courses
But with the mighty
Shofar blast
We will be menatzei’ach
And thus declare
For all to hear
Bezos ani botei’ach
And with our lulav held up high
We joyfully declare
That we have scored a victory
With nothing left to fear
And soon Hakafos
We shall dance
Encircling the bimah
With Shir Hamaalos
On our lips
Our eyes
Zorim bedimah
Together with our sacrifice
All the world shall hear
Zivchei sruah
In His Tent
Korbanos and shir
And they will come a runnin’
“We’ll make a sukkah too!
Why did You not compel us
Just like You did the Jew?”
That day the sun
Will shine so bright
The heat will pierce the day
And with a kick
They’ll say, “We’re sick!”
And then they’ll run away!
And once again
His sukkah
Like in the days of yore
Will be our sole protector like
3,000 years before!
So with great faith
Within our souls
We worry not from them
Chazak ve’ameitz libecha
Vekavei el Hashem!
