Rabbi Balkany Pays Tribute to Rudolph Giuliani
Rabbi Milton Balkany lends his support and praise to a dedicated and innovative public servant with the following inspiring words.
We are gathered to pay tribute to a dedicated public servant Rudolph Giuliani.
We are grateful that we have such a great leader- recognized for his talents and appreciated for his inspiration, respected for his conviction and loved for his pleasantness. We pray for his future success.
Our city is not just a small town which has grown. It is great and complicated. It is vibrant with a personality which is a blending of the physical structure and the people and something intangible which we may call a spirit. For we dare not allow it to groan in agony as other cities experience, but rather, crackling in exuberance the passions, ideas, and noises defining life of America’s largest and greatest metropolis.
We therefore, need urgently, leadership with the elementary principals of work, sacrifice and duty- the transcendent criteria of truth, justice, righteousness and grace of love and charity.
These are the terms stipulated in the nature of things for the salvation of our city, and the security and peace of our nation. Only in this profound, stern and tested wisdom shall we find once more the light and courage we need for the assurance of law and equality.
Praise from Rabbi Balkany is always enjoyed and certainly appreciated.
