Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Shmuel Butman from the Lubavitch Youth Organization of New York City
Sponsor:
Date of Prayer: 2006-04-06
Sponsor:
Date of Prayer: 2006-04-06
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Ovinu Shebashomayim, our Heavenly Father.
We pray to You today, Three days before the 104th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson. |
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The Rebbe reached out
to all people and inspired all people throughout the world, regardless of race, religion, color, and creed, to reach a greater level of observance and service. |
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The Rebbe said
that this is the last generation of exile and the first generation of redemption and that each one of us can bring the redemption even closer by doing more deeds of goodness and kindness. |
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The Rebbe also encouraged the observance
of the Seven Noaḥide Laws,[1] Sanhedrin 56a; cf. Tosefta Avodah Zarah 9:4 and Genesis Rabbah 34:8. Six items were commanded to Adam: concerning idolatry, blasphemy, bloodshed, illicit sexuality, theft, and laws…God added to Noah, the law of not eating from the flesh of a live animal.” (Mishneh Torah, Kings and Wars 9:1). The impetus behind sharing the sheva mitsvot in the context of ḤaBaD Lubavitch originates with the following teaching of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson: “We must do everything possible to ensure that the seven Noahide laws are observed. If this can be accomplished through force or through other kinder and more peaceful means through explaining to non-Jews that they should accept God’s wishes [we should do so]…Anyone who is able to influence a non-Jew in any way to keep the seven commandments is obligated to do so, since that is what God commanded Moses our teacher,” (“Sheva Mitzvot Shel Benai Noach,” Hapardes 59:9 7-11, 5745). or the Seven Universal Laws, which are the basis of any decent and civilized society. |
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In the merit of the Rebbe,
we ask You, Almighty God, to bestow Your blessings on the Members of the Senate and their families and through them on all the people in the United States of America for peace, contentment, and fulfillment in all their endeavors, in joy, in happiness, and in gladness of heart. |
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In honor of the Rebbe,
I want to do an act of goodness and kindness. I want to put a dollar in a pushke, in the charity box. |
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May God bless you,
all of you. Thank you. |
Source(s)
109th Congress, 2nd Session. Congressional Record, Issue: Vol. 152, No. 43 — Daily Edition (April 6, 2006)
Notes
| 1 | Sanhedrin 56a; cf. Tosefta Avodah Zarah 9:4 and Genesis Rabbah 34:8. Six items were commanded to Adam: concerning idolatry, blasphemy, bloodshed, illicit sexuality, theft, and laws…God added to Noah, the law of not eating from the flesh of a live animal.” (Mishneh Torah, Kings and Wars 9:1). The impetus behind sharing the sheva mitsvot in the context of ḤaBaD Lubavitch originates with the following teaching of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson: “We must do everything possible to ensure that the seven Noahide laws are observed. If this can be accomplished through force or through other kinder and more peaceful means through explaining to non-Jews that they should accept God’s wishes [we should do so]…Anyone who is able to influence a non-Jew in any way to keep the seven commandments is obligated to do so, since that is what God commanded Moses our teacher,” (“Sheva Mitzvot Shel Benai Noach,” Hapardes 59:9 7-11, 5745). |
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