How pleasant are Your paths,
HaKadosh Baruch Hu?
How fortunate are
Those who trust in You?
Avraham’s trust and faith
Took him far,
His destiny risen
Above the stars.
Avraham walked before You,
His faith did not falter;
When he bound Yitzchak
Upon the altar,
This brave act,
Its eternal worth,
Forever transcends
Heaven and earth;
Limits of teva
Miraculously suspended
To render plans of harm
To Your children
Upended.
Israel, endowed with knowledge,
Every benefit,
The cosmos are unlocked
Removing all limits.
In defense against the nations
Who hold Israel’s destruction key,
You grant Avraham’s descendants
Insane technology!
The brilliant minds and strategists
Of Israel’s “8200”
Work nonstop, keeping
Israel five steps ahead!
The free-wheeling insight
Of these invaluable super-achievers
Proffer off the hook ingenuity
That holds no barriers.
A defender often needs
To protect limitless space;
An attacker needs
Just one weak link,
One vulnerable place.
Iran’s Natanz
Nuclear facility
Infiltrated by Stuxnet malware,
Stifling centrifuge capability,
“Gospel” target acquisition
Integrates
Detected land-based algorithms
With satellite coordinates.
Most terrorists launch rockets
From concealed sites, underground;
With “Gospel” tech, disturbances,
Like digging, can be found.
The Iranian presence in Syria
Encoded and camouflaged
Their top-secret evil plans,
Targets to be sabotaged.
There is no target of threat
This technology can’t crack;
Weapons can be neutralized
Before Israel’s attacked.
Many nations war against the Jews,
Prophecies say.
The whole world
Will stand against Israel One day,
But Israel’s Defender
Is keeping score:
World powers
Mean nothing to Him,
G-d is a Man of War.
Hashem Yir’eh, You look down
At the Akeidah’s location,
Mount Moriah, starting point
Of this world’s creation,
Where the two Batei Mikdash
Stood by Your command,
The third to be rebuilt by You,
Forever will stand.
May we continue to see,
In days to come,
How without limit
Is the shield of Avraham.
By Sharon Marcus
