В марте 1991 конгресс США официально признал заповеди Ноя и день рождения раввина Шнеерсона.
Краткое содержание документа:
В подписанном конгрессом и президентом США законе 102-14 (
Public Law 102-14, 102nd Congress) фиксируется, что США основаны на семи заповедях Ноя (Seven Universal Laws of Noah) и эти заповеди являются основополагающими для всех собществ от начала цивилизации. Закон также фиксирует, что эти заповеди являются основой, на которой стоит цивлизация и, возникшее отступление от этих принципов угрожает ткани цивилизованного сообщества. Признается что Хабад-Любавичи и особенно раввин Шнеерсон способствуют продвижению этических ценностей и принципов в мире.
С учетом изложенного, а объявить день 26 марта 1991 года в честь раввина Шнеерсона, днем Обучения в США (теперь Education and Sharing Day).
PS. Не раскрыта смежная тема детей Ноевых.
Оригинальный текст
To designate March 26, 1991, as `Education Day, U.S.A.’. (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)
–H.J.Res.104–
H.J.Res.104
One Hundred Second Congress of the United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January,
one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one
Joint Resolution
To designate March 26, 1991, as `Education Day, U.S.A.’.
Whereas Congress recognizes the historical tradition of ethical values and principles which are the basis of civilized society and upon which our great Nation was founded;
Whereas these ethical values and principles have been the bedrock of society from the dawn of civilization, when they were known as the Seven Noahide Laws;
Whereas without these ethical values and principles the edifice of civilization stands in serious peril of returning to chaos;
Whereas society is profoundly concerned with the recent weakening of these principles that has resulted in crises that beleaguer and threaten the fabric of civilized society;
Whereas the justified preoccupation with these crises must not let the citizens of this Nation lose sight of their responsibility to transmit these historical ethical values from our distinguished past to the generations of the future;
Whereas the Lubavitch movement has fostered and promoted these ethical values and principles throughout the world;
Whereas Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, leader of the Lubavitch movement, is universally respected and revered and his eighty-ninth birthday falls on March 26, 1991;
Whereas in tribute to this great spiritual leader, `the rebbe’, this, his ninetieth year will be seen as one of `education and giving’, the year in which we turn to education and charity to return the world to the moral and ethical values contained in the Seven Noahide Laws; and
Whereas this will be reflected in an international scroll of honor signed by the President of the United States and other heads of state: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That March 26, 1991, the start of the ninetieth year of Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, leader of the worldwide Lubavitch movement, is designated as `Education Day, U.S.A.’. The President is requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the people of the United States to observe such day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
