Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Israel Zoberman on 25 June 2014

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United States Congressional Record and Israel Zoberman

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United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, 113th Congress

Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Israel Zoberman, Founding Rabbi of Congregation Beth Chaverim in Virginia Beach, VA.
Sponsor: Rep. Scott Rigell, (R-VA)
Date of Prayer: 06/25/2014

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	Our one God of life’s blessings who brings us together to be one family, gloriously diverse and gratefully united through the divine commandments of loving kindness.
	In this House of Representatives’ august Chamber of the most flourishing democracy, we give thanks to the awesome author of an endangered universe for the essential twin gifts of freedom and responsibility. May You in Your infinite goodness ever guide our elected and appreciated lawmakers who are entrusted with the American people’s agenda and the safeguarding of our precious liberties.
	Mindful of living in our uncertain and unsettling world, let us reaffirm that the Creator’s divinity and human dignity are inseparable, that he who upholds but one human life upholds a unique, irreplaceable universe of purpose and meaning.
	May blemishes turn into blessings, hatred into love, violence into vision, and pain into promise in a global village at SHALOM’s peace at last.
אָמֵן׃	Amen.

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113th Congress, 2nd Session. Congressional Record, Issue: Vol. 160, No. 100 — Daily Edition (June 25, 2014)

Link: https://chaplain.house.gov/chaplaincy/display_gc.html?id=2128

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United States Congressional Record

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)

Israel Zoberman

Rabbi Dr. Israel Zoberman is the Founding Rabbi of Congregation Beth Chaverim in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Born in 1945 in Chu, Kazakhstan (USSR) to Polish Holocaust survivors who had met in Siberia, Rabbi Zoberman spent his early childhood in Poland, Austria and from 1947 to 1949 at Germany’s Wetzlar Displaced Persons Camp, American Zone. He grew up in Haifa, Israel and served in the IDF in the 1960s before emigrating to the United States in 1966. Rabbi Zoberman is the only rabbi to earn a doctorate in Pastoral Care and Counseling from Chicago’s McCormick Theological Seminary, affiliated with the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. A resident of Virginia since 1981, he served one year as Associate Rabbi at Ohef Sholom Temple in Norfolk before founding Congregation Beth Chaverim, the first Reform synagogue in Virginia Beach. In 1999, his alma mater, Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion, awarded him the honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree.

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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