Hail To the Heads - As I Officiated in a Marriage in the Presence of Two Presidents

?ight 2010 - Rabbi David Gruber - All the Rights Reserved - This originally appeared article in InterfaithFamily.How

Anybody has known what long this new idea of freedom and equality would survive. Very scholarly contend than founding it the Parents probably would be surprised that still lived under the same Constitution, much less an amended to provide freedom besides and more people. On these same years the Jewish people have seen his participation of amigable regimes turn against them, with sucesión and turning it on governments frequently no boding well for them. Osos Says very little of these Newport Jews would have imagined the ideas of Washington of President no only surviving, but two successors of this writer of famous letter that answers a marriage, where the Jewish blessings were chanted, after what of these successors leisurely habladuría with the chanting rabbi and his woman. Still here were #all equal.
It does a lot of years, the first President of our republic, Washington of George, has proclaimed an idea that was totally new and unpracticed to the world of this time: equality and freedom in all coast of a religious faith. It has written to the Jews of Newport, Island of Rhode, that "fortunately the executive of United States, which gives to bigotry any punishment, to persecution any assistance, requires with only that they the one who live under his amparo, have to demean they how of the good citizens." It has added still, at the same time when my ancestros in Oriental Europe could only dream of freedom, "May the Boys of the Stock of Abraham, who dwell to this earth, continues to deserve and amuse the good will of the others Inhabitants; while each one will seat under his proper have come and tree of fig, and there will be anybody to do him afraid."
Our discussion finished with Sir Laura Bush that calls on to join him for some photos. (This fair goes to show you than same in this familiar has a very defined hierarchy...) With this, has shaken our hands, and thanked me once again for a very done work. We thanked he by his bonté, and has been to join the party of marriage.
The popular idea has been always this, politics aparta, the forty-third president is a mentsch, and one very genuine and down to partner of earth. Liat And have found that to be very true in fact. Still, without going too magnificent here, could not help reflecting in an appearance a plus deep of this personal experience brief.
Then the big Bushes has been to take stables and habladuría in other hostesses, and have presented Liat to President George W. And Sir Laura Bush. The previous first sir has been then to join the others, and the previous president has spent the prójimo ten minutes speaking to #prpers! It has asked what had lived long Tiled, where were of, and on our boys. It was specifically curious on Liat ancestry. (To cause that it is of both African Northerner and Oriental European extraction, a lot of people find his carry to "situate".) Was tickled by the fact that our ours threads plus young has shared an anniversary with him, and playfully referred his later in the conversation like "George". (His siblings already is giving him a time carry on that one...)
During the ceremony recited the customary Seven Blessings of Marriage in English, after that I chanted the sixty-seventh Psalm Hebrew (in the tune especially reserved for nights of Saturday), and recited it English. I have spoken on what in vísperas of Saturday a lot Jews edge this Psalm, and how contains a lot of the same subjects and the real words meetings in most of ancient copy of scripture that archeologists has found in the Saint Earth, the priestly blessing.
I recently officiated in a ceremony, where both Presidents Bush and his First Sirs were attendance. Hardly do not answer never of the private events, pues this was very special for all the world that was attendance. My woman, Liat, and have asked me if we would achieve to know them or no. We finished up no only knowing them, except that have roughly a lot that they like a-on-a time with the forty-third president.
Since mentioned that Liat has been born in Israel, and have grown up by this reason, spoke on the Jewish State. It has confirmed a history had read once on Sharon 1998 taking him in a visit of helicopter of the 1967 borders, and specifically signalling out of the zone where Israel inside these borders was the plus narrow, only on 8 wide kilometers. To this the then Governor of Texas had remarked that, "have driveways Texas that is longer that this." It was explicit on which there #be a afección mutual real between him, and the man he now referred to as "the driver of old tank".
After the ceremony, President George W. Bush congratulated Me for a very done work of on 12 feet was, and I thanked he. He then smiled and motioned with his finger that has loved me to come #on his. I has had then the privilege to shake hands with both presidents and his first sirs, who everything congratulated do me a big work. This would have been an experience and of him.

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