By COLlive reporter
Rabbi Schneur Z. Oirechman, the Chabad shliach to Florida’s capitol city, delivered invocations this week at the regular Cabinet meeting of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the swearing-in of Florida State Supreme Court Justices Robert Luck and Carlos Munuz.
The opening prayers, delivered the morning and afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 24, were both preceded with another Florida first: the sounding of the shofar before prayers were recited.
At the swearing-in of the two jurists, a ceremony called an investiture, Gov. DeSantis, State Cabinet members, and a good number of federal and state judges from across Florida and even other states were in attendances.
Rabbi Oirechman also made it a point to publicly give tzedakah, dropping a few coins into a prominently placed pushka before starting both invocations.
Both invocations were well received, with the rabbi reporting “great feedback.”
Gov. DeSantis told the rabbi that with Hurricane Dorian, it was “very clear” that it was an “open miracle” that the storm—projected to slam the state only to sharply veer away—left no doubt that G-d was now answering the hi prayers at his recent visit to Israel, a state visit that had been accompanied by Rabbi Oirechman.
In his own public remarks shortly after being sworn in, Justice Luck thanked the rabbi for his invocation.
And shortly after the invocation, according to Rabbi Oirechman, Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles T. Canady came over to say that he had been “very moved” by a message that he will “forever remember.”
