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Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Jack M. Rosoff, Congregation B’nai Israel of Greater Red Bank, Rumson, New Jersey
Date of Prayer: 18 February 1969
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Date of Prayer: 18 February 1969
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O Lord, Thou God of justice, who art sanctified through righteousness, make Thy presence manifest in the world, arise in Thy majesty, O our King, and let the haughty be cast low because of Thy justice. | |
עד מתי רשעים ה׳ עד מתי רשעים יעלזו (תהלים צד:ג) |
How long, O God, shall the wicked exult? How long shall evil doers prosper? (Psalms 94:3) They bluster insolently; they lord it arrogantly; they flout Thy will; they torment those who fall into their clutches; they oppress without mercy the weak and the defenseless; they sit in hiding, conspiring in secret; they plan to betray the innocent; they snatch the helpless and despairing into their net; they say: “God will not see, He has hidden His face.”[1] Cf. Psalms 10:2-11. |
ה׳ הננו |
O Lord, here we are,[2] Likely, a liturgical reference to Numbers 14:40, echoed in Jeremiah 3:22 and Ezra 9:15. use us. |
Inspire us, O Lord, to scatter Thine enemies. Inspire us to defeat bigotry, oppression, and injustice. As smoke is driven away, so let them be driven back. As wax melts before fire, so let them melt before the flame of human love, concern, and determination of Thy servants. Give us courage to champion the right, though many and powerful be its foes. Grant us wisdom to work diligently to combat wrong and evil. | |
The vision of the messianic era makes us joyful, it portends the triumph of Thy love when men shall banish all hatred from their hearts and all weapons from their hands, and unite in establishing Thy kingdom of peace and justice on earth. | |
והיה באחרית הימים . . . וכתתו חרבותם לאתים וחניחותיהם למזמרות. לא ישא גוי אל גוי חרב ולא ילמדו עוד מלחמה. (ישעיה ב:ב-ד) |
And it shall come to pass in the end of days. . . they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more. (Isaiah 2:2-4) |
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of God, as the waters cover the sea. (Isaiah 11:9)[3] Cf. Habakkuk 2:14 Amen. |
This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the second month of the first session of the 91st US Congress. 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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