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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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Prayer for the Government in honor of George Washington, First President of the United States of America by Ḳ.Ḳ. Beit Shalome (1789)

Prayer for the Centennial of the Inauguration of George Washington, by Rabbi Yaakov Yosef (1889)

[Prayer] on the Eve of Inauguration, by Rabbi Norman M. Goldburg (3 March 1933)

[Prayer] on the Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States, by Rabbi Norman M. Goldburg (4 March 1933)

Inauguration Day Prayer for President Harry S. Truman, by Rabbi Samuel Thurman (1949)

Inauguration Day Prayer for President Dwight D. Eisenhower by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver (1953)

Inauguration Day Prayer for President Dwight D. Eisenhower by Rabbi Dr. Louis Finkelstein (1957)

Inauguration Day Benediction for President John F. Kennedy by Rabbi Dr. Nelson Glueck (1961)

Inauguration Day Prayer for President Lyndon B. Johnson, by Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel (1965)

Inauguration Day Prayer for President Richard M. Nixon by Rabbi Edgar F. Magnin (1969)

Inauguration Day Prayer for President Richard M. Nixon, by Rabbi Seymour Siegel (1973)

Inauguration Day Prayer for President Ronald Reagan, by Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk (1985)

Prayer for Our Country [upon the Inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama], by Ilana Joy Streit (2009)

Inauguration Day Prayer for Donald Trump, by Rabbi Marvin Hier (2017)

Prayer on Inauguration, by Rabbi Arthur Waskow (the Shalom Center, 2021)

Inauguration Day Prayer for the Government of the United States, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org 2021)