But somewhere floating
In the air
There’s underlying fear
About a threat we often hear
Is it for real?
Is it a dare?
He says he’ll
Wipe us
Off the map
He goads us
Tries to
Set a trap
He says he will
Obliterate
The “entity”
The Jewish state
He thinks with him
Does lie our fate
And, what, I ask
They think they have
That gives them
That aplomb?
Electrons and nuclei
They call an atom bomb!
You cannot see its power
You cannot see the force
Like bumpkins
Who first saw a train
You ask
“So where’s the horse?”
That weapon
That does threaten us
It is a mystery
But so much fear
It generates
Because of history
Inside the physics of that bomb
A lesson lies within
About the forces we can’t see
About mitzvos and sin
A nation seems to worry
About forces they can’t see
It’s not a tank or missile, yet
They speak calamity
And so I ask
To fight the force
Of unseen radiation
Can we not use
Comparable
Hallmarks of our nation?
For centuries
We have survived
Not with guns and rockets
Tefillas Dovid slew the brute
With pebbles in his pockets
Goliaths loomed
Like Hamans
Sancheirev’s army too
Whatever stopped those armies
Can stop these forces too
We also have electrons
And forces we can’t see
More powerful
Than atom bombs
Spirituality!
The thousands
Learning Torah
With all their heart and soul
Declares to all
What we believe
Hashem is in control
But lo my friend
If we forget
And try to stop our forces
And just rely
On Shin Bet’s eyes
And military courses
And if we say
“Do it our way”
We need not hear your prayer
Then I, for one
Will tell you all
You have so much to fear
So let yeshivos
Thrive and grow
Let the kol Torah reign
For there are things
We cannot see
And we cannot explain
For our existence
All these years
A sheep by wolves surrounded
Is only an existence
That has the world astounded
And so I say
Dear brethren
Let Torah forces reign
For it will be our best defense
‘Till Moshiach, amein!
