To illustrate, the first blessing in the King James Bible reads: `` Blessed are the poor in spirit ; ;

Palfrey told his wife of his intentions for the first time, and left for New Orleans apprehensively invoking a special blessing of Providence that he might be allowed to see his family again.

Though that may be unfair since Ben Cooper, John's first son, came along early in 1938, the cutest baby you ever saw and a blessing that he looked all Cooper from fontanel to pink toes, nary a trace of Edythe.

After telling the audience " I shall now read to you the scroll of the Establishment of the State, which has passed its first reading by the National Council ", Ben-Gurion proceeded to read out the declaration, taking 16 minutes, ending with the words " Let us accept the Foundation Scroll of the Jewish State by rising " and calling on Rabbi Fishman to recite the Shehecheyanu blessing.

Despite the firm's name, Burnham was the nominal survivor ; the Drexel name only came first at the insistence of the more powerful investment banks, whose blessing was necessary for the merged firm to inherit Drexel's position as a " major " firm.

The pope then assumes a place of honor as the rest of the cardinals wait in turn to offer their first " obedience " ( adoratio ) and to receive his blessing.

There, after a solemn Papal Mass, the new pope was crowned with the triregnum ( papal tiara ) and he gave for the first time as pope the famous blessing Urbi et Orbi (" to the City and to the World ").

# Kadeish קדש – recital of Kiddush blessing and drinking of the first cup of wine

Rooted in Gene Roddenberry ’ s Star Trek universe, it was the first Trek spin-off created without direct involvement from Roddenberry, although he did give his blessing to the concept shortly before his death in 1991.

At first he would receive visitors and wash their feet, but later he confined himself to his cell and opened the window only to give his blessing.

# Kadeish קדש – recital of Kiddush blessing and drinking of the first cup of wine

# Blessing over day: Recitation of the Sheheḥeyanu blessing as on the first day ( Diaspora: two days ) of all other festivals.

The first is that used by Solomon, who being a prophet of Allah, is assumed to have used miraculous powers with Allah's blessing.

In the Biblical account, Joseph is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh ; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn, although Manasseh was the eldest, because Jacob foresaw that Ephraim's descendants would be greater than his brother's.

Some critics, however, view this as a postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an aetiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation In the Biblical account, Joseph is one of the two children of Rachel and Jacob, a brother to Benjamin, and father to both Ephraim, and his first son, Manasseh ; Ephraim received the blessing of the firstborn, although Manasseh was the eldest, because Jacob foresaw that Ephraim's descendants would be greater than his brother's.

The first four categories are used with a bracha ( blessing ), the fifth without a bracha, and the last, not at all.

After obtaining the blessing and help of his father, he studied first in Logroño and then in Zaragoza and was ordained a deacon in Zaragoza on Saturday, 20 December 1924.

There were some noteworthy textual changes in the first two sections, and the dismissal formula in the Concluding Rites ( Ite, missa est ) was moved to the end of the Mass ; previously, it was followed by an inaudible personal prayer by the priest, the blessing of the people ( which has been retained ), and the reading of the " Last Gospel " ( almost always John 1: 1 – 14 ).

He has been described as the first French Canadian historian to consider the period of the French regime superior to that of the English rule that followed it, evaluating the Conquest as a disaster rather than the common nineteenth century view of it as a blessing that saved Quebec from the atheist terror of the French Revolution.

The agreement of a Patriarch is not binding over the whole Orthodox Church ( the Patriarchs are just considered first among equals among the local bishops of the patriarchy, and do not hold any power outside their bishopric-they cannot even do Sacraments outside their bishopric without blessing of the local bishop ).

His first act was to revive the traditional public blessing given from the balcony, Urbi et Orbi, (" to the city and to the world ").

An Ashkenazi says two blessings when laying tefillin, the first before he ties the arm-tefillin: ... lehani ' ach tefillin, and the second after placing the head tefillin: ... al mitzvat tefillin, thereafter he tightens the head straps and says " Baruch Shem Kovod ...." The Sephardic custom is that no blessing is said for the head-tefillin, the first blessing sufficing for both.

In the case of the greatest spiritual masters as Shivananda let ’ s say, there is the custom to realize puja with a living object of adoration, meaning we choose them as objects of puja, honor them as living gods or we see and adore specific gods in their body, putting on them symbolic clothes and ornaments, garlands around their neck, incense around them, washing their feet, anointing their feet, giving them fruits, food and drinks and meditating at their feet, asking for their blessing.

Spare it and have mercy upon it and all of its harvest and its fruits, and bless it with rains of favor, blessing, and generosity ; and let its issue be life, plenty, and peace as in the blessed good years ; for Thou, O Eternal, are good and does good and blesses the years.

* May Ascension ( ancient columbanian procession from the Castle Malaspina-Dal Verme, with the blessing of nature, earth and the fruits of blessing buslanin, traditional sweets )

But I'd been a good girl and now God was blessing me with the gift of this magnificent man and the wondrous love we shared.

With Herberet's blessing, he was convinced that Allstates' Wisconsin folly would be ideal for conversion to airplane sub-assembly, tanks, missiles or ordnance of some kind.

I believe his blindness was a blessing in disguise.

With this papal blessing, Portugal was at last secured as a kingdom.

This policy was good politics on the part of the Persians, and the Jews viewed it as a blessing from God.

Since it was regarded as the highest blessing to have many children, legitimate wives often gave their maids to their husbands to atone, at least in part, if they were barren, as in the cases of Sarah and Hagar, Rachel and Bilhah.

This non-Israelite widow was granted the best covenant blessing in the person of her son, the only hope for a widow in ancient society.

The history of Italian cinema began just a few months after the Lumière brothers had patented their Cinematographe, when Pope Leo XIII was filmed for a few seconds in the act of blessing the camera.

Clines ' conclusion was that the overall theme is " the partial fulfillment – which implies also the partial nonfulfillment – of the promise to or blessing of the Patriarchs.

In 1963, with the blessing of St. John Maximovitch, Archbishop of Shanghai and San Francisco, a community of Orthodox booksellers and publishers called the St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood was formed to publish Orthodox missionary information in English.

The high seriousness of the subject was also epitomized in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting ( illustrated ), in which a woman modelled by Jane Morris holds the Grail with one hand, while adopting a gesture of blessing with the other.

While Esau was hunting, Jacob, after listening to his mother's advice, deceived his blind father by misrepresenting himself as Esau and thereby obtained his father's blessing, such that Jacob became Isaac's primary heir and Esau was left in an inferior position.

As Madison wrote, " a crisis had arrived which was to decide whether the American experiment was to be a blessing to the world, or to blast for ever the hopes which the republican cause had inspired.

Isaac then blessed Jacob with the blessing that was meant for Esau.

Esau was heartbroken by the deception and begged for his own blessing.

Although Esau sold Jacob his own birthright, which was his blessing, for " red pottage ", Esau still hated Jacob for receiving his blessing that their father Isaac unknowingly had given to him.

Jacob then settled in Migdal Eder, where his firstborn, Reuben, slept with Rachel's servant Bilhah ; Jacob's response was not given at the time, but he did condemn Reuben for it later, in his deathbed blessing.

Kemp was also outspoken on immigration on around this time: according to Kemp's interpretation of a scientific index that he and Bennett support, " immigrants are a blessing, not a curse.

Already a blessing has been besought of him in prayer, and it was not in vain.

In, Jacob uses deception, motivated by his mother Rebekah, to lay claim on his father Isaac's blessing that was inherently due to the firstborn, Esau.

Isaac then refuses to take Jacob's blessing back after learning he was tricked, and does not give this blessing to Esau but, after Esau begs, gives him an inferior blessing ().