Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Shea Hecht, Hadar Hatorah Yeshiva, Brooklyn, NY
Sponsor: Rep. Chris Gibson, (R-NY)
Date of Prayer: 11/30/2016

One Minute Speech Given in Recognition of the Guest Chaplain:

Mr. GIBSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank Rabbi Shea Hecht for his opening prayer. Rabbi Hecht, a Chabad Rabbi, is the chairman of the board of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education.

Rabbi Hecht has brought together people of different faiths, races, and backgrounds in New York to promote peace through understanding. These principles hold true in New York, as they do throughout the country and right here in this body.

One thing that my time in Congress has reinforced in me is that prayer matters. The daily opening prayers here in the Chamber set the tone for my day and often help me reflect on how to be a better husband, father, and Congressman.

I join Rabbi Hecht in his pursuit for peace at home and abroad and thank him for his meaningful prayer. I certainly thank his family as well, including Rabbis Hanoch and Yitzchok, rabbis in the Hudson Valley.

Mr. Speaker, I am very grateful.

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114th Congress, 2nd Session. Congressional Record, Issue: Vol. 162, No. 171 — Daily Edition (November 30, 2016)

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Shea Hecht

Shea Hecht is the chairman of the board of the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education and a leading Chabad rabbi. He is the son of the late Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht, a close confidant of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, R' Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Currently, he is a dean at Hadar Hatorah Yeshiva in Brooklyn, NY, a Lubavitch Baal Teshuvah yeshiva, as well as a faculty member of the Ivy League Torah Study Program. He also served as the spiritual leader of the Seaview Jewish Center in Canarsie, Brooklyn.

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