President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama marked the 10th anniversary of the worst attacks on U.S. soil by joining ceremonies at each of the 3 sites where the planes crashed on September 11, 2001.
Their first stop was New York City, where they joined the annual service that includes reading the names of all of the almost 3,000 victims.
The President and First Lady joined former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush at the new September 11 Memorial, which features two reflecting pools built over the towers’ footprints where the names of the victims are etched in bronze.
Following a moment of silence at 8:46 AM, the exact moment the first plane hit the World Trade Center 10 years ago, the President read Tehillim, chapter 46:
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore, we will not fear,
even though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried
into the midst of the sea.
Though its waters roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake
with its swelling,
there’s a river
whose streams shall make glad
the City of God,
the holy place of the Tabernacle
of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her.
She shall not be moved.
God shall help her
just at the break of dawn.
The nations raged,
the kingdoms were moved.
He uttered his voice.
The earth melted.
The Lord of Hosts is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Come behold the works of the Lord
who has made desolations in the Earth.
He makes wars cease
to the ends of the Earth.
He breaks the bough
and cuts the spear in two.
He burns the chariot in fire.
Be still and know that I am God.
I will be exalted among the nations.
I will be exalted in the Earths.
The Lord of Hosts is with us.
The God of Jacob is our refuge.
Obama declared September 11 a national day of service and remembrance to honor those killed in the attacks, those who responded 10 years ago and those who have served in our military during in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At 9/11 ceremonies in Israel, government officials thanked President Obama for his support and intervention with the attack on the Israeli embassy in Cairo on Friday, saving 6 Israelis.
Go Shmaya!!!!!!!
Amazing
hey at least maybe he woke up a tiny bit reading some Tehillim!
He assists Al Quaeda (he is assisting in the establishment of their terror state in Libya), the Palestinians (they are using his image and words to create a terror state in Israel,with Jerusalem as it’s capitol) assists Israel’s enemy Turkey (he demands Israel apologize for defending itself from the Hamas flotilla) and is supporting the radical militant activist Shabazz Black Muslim school in Chicago with 50,000 dollars if stimulus money.
Needless to say, Obama’s heart is clearly not in the words of our Psalmist.
I must say I agree with you. Obama might believe in G-d but has a healthy ‘yetzer hara.’ He might/probably recited the ‘Tehillim’ to win votes…why? Nathan Lewin, Rubashkin’s attorney, stated in Beis Yaacov Seminary, in Boro Park, (During the Rubashkin appeal) that when the president was electioneering in Iowa, he criticized businesses that mistreat workers before Rubashkin had his trial. Mr. Lewin was visibly upset. “Obama is a case attorney with a degree from Harvard. He shouldn’t be doing this.” (Loose quote) Subsequently, in the second trial (Worker abuse) all the charges were thrown out. The judge and jury… Read more »
Isn’t he billed as an orator? A person who moves people with his words?
That was one of the poorest recitations of Psalms I’ve heard.
Lacking on all fronts: in smoothness, in intent and feeling, in comprehension (also a bad translation to boot, which makes it sound almost senseless). And as usual, he sounds so disingenuous whenever it comes to these things.
He just doesn’t sound like he believes in what he is saying, in the slightest.
he didn’t say tehillim, only jews say tehillim. although its good that he mentioned g0d.
‘Psalms’ is also in the new testament. Many non Jews say psalms and it has nothing to do with being pro-Jewish.
a European socialist Muslim terrorist secret communist operative saying tehilim……wow, what a contradiction!!!!
i heard obama reading Tehillim on the radio, and I just couldn’t stop thinking – this sounds like a man who doesn’t believe in G-d.
Your feelings are correct. Obama is a G-dless fake.
To prove this, if indeed proof is needed, you still might be able to view on computer one of his early speeches where he quotes from our Bible only to make fun of it. No. 11 has also got it right.
Hashem put these words into the President’s mouth.
Too bad the government has to have a memorial to mention G-d.
The reason that all the politicians read from tehilim or quoted other places was cause they didn’t want to use their own words which could be politicized but still people are finding a way to politicize it. Please.
It is desecrating the words when someone of Obama’s values reads from them to gain political points by hiding his true belief which is Jeremiah Wright G-d (expletive deleted) America radicalism and his cultural identification which is Muslim.
However, decent non-Jews who read from “Psalms” are only praising Hashem which is mutar last time I checked.
One day you will understand that the tehillim belong to the entire world and that the sooner they engage in saying them, the sooner, G-dliness will return to this world. Don’t forget, Moshiach is going to be the king of the ENTIRE world.
Don’t forget the vision of the prophet, “One day My house will be called a House of Prayer for all the nations”
But why do I feel that the choice of tehillim was an re-election ploy aimed at the xtian and jewish folks ?
What shluchim… Noone knows what they do until you experience it yourself. I was traveling abroad I got stuck on Erev shabbos. I made a call to the Katz family. Rochel picked up. She heard my incident and said. No worries.. 20 minutes later rochel and shmaya arrived, with a new rented car took us all in a family of 12. Rochel bathed my kids dressed them fed them. This is just a small part of that shabbos. The rest I can’t put into words may they be gebentched..rochel entertained us with her talents of voice over. The rebbe is… Read more »
Rabbi shmaya Katz was sent to manhattan to over turn the city to kedusha. He is a shliach of mesiras nefesh and represents that which chabad should represent. He and his wife have made the greatest kiddush has hem and lubavitch, both in gashmius and ruchnius. Every day we attend shiurim by rabbi Katz his knowledge gentleness humility and brilliance capture of the smartest souls. Rebbetzin Katz is a true dogma Chaya of what a shlucha should be. If you have never tasted her cooking you have no idea what cooking is. In honor of the katz family shabbos and… Read more »
is it not transgressing the tehillim if a goy is reading from it? Was there any way that someone jewish could’ve read the tehillim eg mayor blumberg? i think it was very nice that the president read the tehillim but i just think it would be more appropiate if a jew would have read it
Go Rochel katzs husband:)
It took almost 3 years for someone to put Tehillim on the Teleprompter
Bh
Wow kol hakavod to you!
Be mekadesh shem shmayim!
very emotional and fitting for the day
may Gd avenge the blood of all those murdered during this attack and those murdered in all atacks, pogroms, and wars that have targeted the jewish nation for thousands of years. May He avenge thier deaths with the coming of Moshiach, speedily in our days.
Chapter 46 happens to be a psalm that is connected to the war of gog umogog!