By COLlive reporter
President Donald Trump is being treated at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, after being infected with Covid-19 last week.
Over the course of Trump’s illness, he experienced “two episodes of transient drops in his oxygen saturation” and was given a steroid, CNN reported.
Trump, was infected along with First Lady Melania Trump, and other White House and government officials.
His physicians said he could be discharged as early as Monday.
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Jewish people across the United States began the holiday of Sukkos on Friday night with concern about the president’s condition.
The next morning, during the reading of the Torah, the Mi Sheberach prayer of healing was recited for “Donald John ben Frederick” and “Melania bas Victor.”
Mi Sheberach is typically said for Jewish people who need healing by mentioning the mother’s name of the individual.
The gesture was inspired by an encounter with the Rebbe documented by the JEM.
On May 5th in 1991, President George H. W. Bush was rushed to Bethesda Naval Hospital after suffering from an irregular heartbeat following his morning jog.
The next day, Rabbi Avraham Shemtov, the Chabad Shliach in Philadelphia and the Rebbe’s representative to Washington, DC, asked the Rebbe for a blessing for the President’s health.
The Rebbe noted that the method for praying for a non-Jew is with their father’s names (as opposed to Jews, who evoke G-d’s blessings with their mother’s names).
The Rebbe then replied with a blessing, as well as urging the president to further peace in the mid-east.
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