Marc Saperstein has an interesting article at the Huffington Post titled 'Four Score and Seven Years Ago': A Jewish Connection regarding a sermon delivered by R. Sabato Morais on July 4, 1863, which also fell out on the 17th of Tammuz.
July 4, 1863 was a Saturday, and Rabbi Sabato Morais, a Sephardi immigrant from Italy serving as religious leader of Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel Congregation, delivered his Sabbath morning sermon. His sermon contains a phrase that might well have influenced the most celebrated speech in American history.
...Needless to say, some three months later, for the dedication of the Gettysburg cemetery, Abraham Lincoln elevated the level of his discourse from "eighty odd years" to "four score and seven years, our fathers brought forth to this continent," possibly borrowing from the published text by the Philadelphia Sephardic preacher who, without knowing it, may have made a lasting contribution to American rhetorical history.
Read full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marc-saperstein/gettysburg-address-jewish-connection_b_3539959.html
Speaking of sermons, below are some excerpts from English translations of Rabbi Nit Ben Artzi's messages from the past few weeks.
27 June 2013 Message for the Week of Parshat Pinhas 5773
Egypt thinks everything is good and quiet - everything is not quiet. In Egypt there is a complete mess economically, politically and socially. They're not calm, they are a nervous wreck about to explode and it will happen - there will be a revolution in Egypt.
19 June 2013 Message for the Week of Parshat Balak 5773
there will be a revolution in Egypt.
06 June 2013 Message for the Week of Parshat Korach 5773
Egypt is gently bubbling and boiling, soon it will crack open and everything will boil over. They won't be able to make any order there. Everything is going to fall apart for them before their eyes, no less than in Syria.
http://geulamessages.blogspot.be/
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