This is an archive of prayers and benedictions offered on the day of the inauguration of the President of the United States (January 20th).
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🖖︎ Prayers & Praxes —⟶ 📅︎ Prayers for Civic Days on Civil Calendars —⟶ United States Civil Calendar —⟶ 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th) 📁 🇺🇸 Martin Luther King Jr. Day (3rd Monday of January) :: (Next Category) 🡆 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th)This is an archive of prayers and benedictions offered on the day of the inauguration of the President of the United States (January 20th). Click here to contribute a prayer you have written, or a translation of an existing prayer. Filter resources by Collaborator Name Ḳ.Ḳ. Beit Shalome | Ari Berman | Judah David Eisenstein (translation) | Louis Finkelstein | Nelson Glueck | Norman Michael Goldburg | Alfred Gottschalk | Marvin Hier | Yaakov Yosef | Abe Katz (translation) | Edgar Magnin | Neohasid·org | Hyman Judah Schachtel | David Seidenberg | the Shalom Center | Seymour Siegel | Abba Hillel Silver | Kohenet Ilana Joy Streit | the Congressional Record of the United States of America | Samuel Thurman | Aharon N. 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Filter resources by Category Coronations & Inaugurations | 🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February) | Government & Country | Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies | 🇺🇸 United States of America Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range Looking for something else? For prayers composed for inaugurations and coronations, please visit here. For prayers composed for the welfare of the government and country, go here. Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? The following prayer for the government was composed by Congregation Beth Shalome in Richmond, Virginia in 1789. Please note the acrostic portion of the prayer in which the initial letters of the succeeding lines form the name: Washington. . . . Categories: Government & Country, 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th), 🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February), 🇺🇸 United States of America Tags: 18th century C.E., 56th century A.M., acrostic, American Jewry of the United States, George Washington, inaugurations, Prayers for leaders, Presidents Day, United States, Western Sepharadim Contributor(s): The proclamation and prayer of chief rabbi Yaakov Yosef, on the centennial of President George Washington’s Inauguration . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th), 🇺🇸 George Washington's Birthday (3rd Monday of February), 🇺🇸 United States of America Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, George Washington, inaugurations, Needing Vocalization, New York City, Prayers for leaders, Presidents Day, United States Contributor(s): “On the Eve of Inauguration” by Rabbi Norman Michael Goldburg, was offered before the California state legislature on 3 March 1933, and published in California Legislature 50th Session 1933: Prayers Offered at the Daily Sessions of the Assembly, p. 36. . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th), Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies, Coronations & Inaugurations Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., California State Legislature, English vernacular prayer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Great Depression in the United States, inaugurations, Prayers of Guest Chaplains Contributor(s): “On the Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States” by Rabbi Norman Michael Goldburg, was offered before the California state legislature on 4 March 1933, and published in California Legislature 50th Session 1933: Prayers Offered at the Daily Sessions of the Assembly, p. 37. . . . Categories: 🇺🇸 Inauguration Day (January 20th), Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies, Coronations & Inaugurations Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., California State Legislature, English vernacular prayer, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Great Depression in the United States, inaugurations, Prayers of Guest Chaplains Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Samuel Thurman, of the United Hebrew Temple (St. Louis, Missouri), was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record for January 20, 1949. . . . This prayer by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, of Cleveland, Ohio, was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record for January 20, 1953. . . . This prayer at the second inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower by Rabbi Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record for January 20, 1957. . . . This benediction for President John F. Kennedy by Rabbi Dr. Nelson Glueck, was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record on January 20, 1961. . . . This prayer by Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel, Congregation Beth Israel (Houston, Texas), was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record on January 20, 1965. . . . This prayer by Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record on January 20, 1969. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., democratic process, English vernacular prayer, inaugurations, pink streaks of light, United States Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Seymour Siegel at the second inauguration of President Richard M. Nixon was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record on January 20, 1973. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., democratic process, English vernacular prayer, inaugurations, שתדלנות shtadlanut, United States Contributor(s): This prayer by Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk at the second inauguration of President Ronald Reagan was recorded in the United States’ Congressional Record on January 21, 1985. . . . A prayer upon the inauguration of President Obama in January 2009. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Jewry of the United States, Barack Hussein Obama, English vernacular prayer, inaugurations, Prayers as poems, Prayers for leaders, United States Contributor(s): Rabbi Marvin Hier offered this prayer of blessing for Donald Trump and the United States of America on January 20, 2017 at the inauguration day ceremony. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 45th President of the United States, 58th century A.M., Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, inauguration, Psalms 15, שתדלנות shtadlanut, United States Contributor(s): A prayer on being present in the moment of the inauguration of the 59th president of the United States. . . . A prayer for the government of the United States of America on the day of the 59th Presidential Inauguration. . . . This prayer by Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University, was offered as a benediction at the Inauguration ceremony for Donald Trump on 20 January 2025. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 47th President of the United States, 58th century A.M., Donald Trump, English vernacular prayer, inaugurations, שתדלנות shtadlanut, United States Contributor(s):
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Washington delivering his inaugural address April 1789, in the old city hall, New-York / painted by T.H. Matteson ; engraved on steel by H.S. Sadd. (This image is set to automatically show as the "featured image" in shared links on social media.)
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