Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Albert A. Goldman on 8 February 1972

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Categories: 🇺🇸 Brotherhood Week, 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., 92nd Congress, English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, תחינות teḥinot

Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Albert A. Goldman, Isaac M. Wise Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio
Date of Prayer: 8 February 1972
Sponsor: Rep William Keating (R-OH)

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	Lord, this month we recall with reverence the lives of the great Presidents who wove the character of our people upon the loom of history. From them we have inherited the legacy that free men alone can create the good society.
	Today, when the acids of disillusionment corrode our faith in democracy, when the young despair, we pray for a renewal of their vision and exultant faith.
	Help us to regain that idealism which moved America’s races and peoples toward brotherhood, where, transcending differences, we can realize our individualities.
	Make us whole as we pray that tomorrow’s great mission of peace will be the giant step for the recovery of man’s humanity and the discovery of our oneness. Amen.

This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the second month of the second session of the 92nd US Congress in the House of Representatives. The source images of the prayer were copied by Howard Mortman and shared via his @CongressRabbi Twitter account. All credit to Howard Mortman for his research in digging up this prayer. Unfortunately, neither the source images nor his tweets provide an exact citation reference to the volume, issue, and page number of the Congressional Record in which the prayer was published. If you know, leave a comment, or contact us.

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Albert A. Goldman

Rabbi Albert A. Goldman (1915-2007), born in Chicago, was a rabbi in the American Reform movement. A graduate of the University of Chicago and of the College of Jewish Studies, in 1940, he was ordained as a rabbi at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. During World War II, he was an army chaplain at Greenland and Lake Placid Rehabilitation Center. From 1946 to 1948, he was the assistant rabbi at Temple Israel in Boston. From 1948 till 1953, he served as a rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Yonkers. Chairman of the Committee on Psychiatry from the Central Conference of American Rabbis, he co-authored Religion and Psychiatry (Beacon Press: 1948), and Marriage and the Home, a pamphlet published by the American Social Hygiene Association. He served as the rabbi of Wise Temple in Cincinnati from 1953 to 1981.

the Congressional Record of the United States of America

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, published by the United States Government Printing Office and issued when Congress is in session. Indexes are issued approximately every two weeks. At the end of a session of Congress, the daily editions are compiled in bound volumes constituting the permanent edition. Statutory authorization for the Congressional Record is found in Chapter 9 of Title 44 of the United States Code. (wikipedia)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17