10 Responses

1. Thank you YW for this important info. I have to be in the area today, so thank you!!!!

2. Don’t forget that this is a chance to say the special brocho if you have the zechus to see the President live
   (it’s in the siddur)

3. Is it true that the Edison Roshei Yeshiva are planning to attend?

4. not sure the Brocha applies here

5. 1. HaNoTeN MeHodO LeBaSaR VaDaM (or is it MeLeCH BaSaR VaDam)?

   2. he is definitely a king, he definitely has power to condemn to death (look at his predecessor, who had his wife’s boyfriend murdered for reasons other than he was her boyfriend; that was unimportant to him)

   3. and some claim (luckily, not YW) that that is iraq

   4. i remember when johnsin was campaigning for reeelection (1964) and EVERYONE came out on thirteenth avenue to see him. even though we probably disagreed with him.

   5. does your shul say HaNoTeN TeSHUA every shabat, not just on inaugaration shabat? mine does.

6. That is why tere was so much Traffic At The Lincoln Tunnel

7. Why would you make a brookha on somebody who can condemn people to death on a whim???

8. OnceFrum: Because since Hashem is omnipotent, His granting a human king the ability to condemn to death at will is a micro-miniscule testament to His power, so we make a bracha upon witnessing the manifestation of His granting this power to a human.

9. The ברכה is made because of the position he holds. הנותן תשועה is said each Shabbos in our Shul and many others.The government,whether we like it or we do not,is a representative of מלכות שמים

10. The President is the Commander-in -Chief