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Sponsor: Rep. Clarence Long (D-MD)
Date of Prayer: 20 April 1982
Mr. LONG of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, we are grateful to Rabbi Seymour Essrog of the Beth Israel Synagogue of Baltimore County, Maryland, for his inspirational offering.
Rabbi Essrog has served his Randallstown congregation for 21 years. In addition, he is a lieutenant colonel with the U.S. Army Reserves where he serves as chaplain.
He received his bachelors degree, his masters degree in Hebrew literature, and his rabbinical ordination from Yeshiva University, New York. He also earned a masters degree in liberal arts from Johns Hopkins University.
Rabbi Essrog is president of the Baltimore Jewish Community Relations Council, and is past president of both the Baltimore Zionist District and the Baltimore Board of Rabbis.
Rabbi Essrog, the Members of the U.S. Congress join me in thanking you for being with us today.
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Our God, You who are the Guide of all humanity and nations, renew the American tradition of sacrifice and service upon our great Nation and its citizens. Heighten our sense of responsibility that together we may remove the seeds of evil. | |
On this special day of Yom haShoah— when Jews all over the world collectively commemorate the death of the 6 million at the hands of the Nazis— we pray that the day will soon come when there shall be no violence or desolation on Earth when “nation shall not lift up sword against nation.” (Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3.) | |
Kindle in us a passion for righteousness and truth. | |
Deepen our love for our beloved country, our desire to serve it, our resolve to uphold its good name by our own right conduct. Amen. |
This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the fourth month of the second session of the 97th US Congress in the House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 128, part 6 (20 April 1982), page 7120.
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Congressional Record, vol. 128, part 6 (20 April 1982), p. 7120
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