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Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Amos M. Bunim, Congregation Sons and Daughters of Israel, Brooklyn, New York
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Date of Prayer: 1 June 1954
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Date of Prayer: 1 June 1954
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Our Father in Heaven, bless this august body of men representing the freest people in your world. | |
Grant us divine guidance to legislate in the spirit of the truth that You have taught us— to set noble standards for this great democracy that the other inhabitants of Your earth may emulate, to interpret Your will in laws and mores that will make this world a happy habitat which You have intended in Your graciousness; so that the bounties You have planted in heaven and earth may be extended to the good of all Your children. | |
Guide us to legislate in the spirit of Your teachings and may we realize the prophetic blessing expressed in Deuteronomy, “For this is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the nations that shall hear all these statutes and they will say ‘indeed a wise People and understanding is this great nation.’” (Deuteronomy 4:6) | |
Protect us against the enemies of our country who blaspheme Your name and threaten Your children on earth with oppression of streams of blood. | |
Bless this peace-loving Nation to be everlastingly founded on the pillars of civilization expressed in the ethics of our fathers, “on justice, on truth, and on peace” (Pirkei Avot 1:18)[1] A teaching in the name of Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel after Zechariah 8:16. now and forevermore. Amen. |
This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the sixth month of the first session of the 83rd US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 100 part 6 (1 June 1954), page 7417.
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Congressional Record, vol. 100, part 6 (1 June 1954), p. 7417
Notes
| 1 | A teaching in the name of Rabban Shimon ben Gamaliel after Zechariah 8:16. |
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