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Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Karl Applbaum of Avenue M Jewish Center, Brooklyn, New York
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Date of Prayer: 29 April 1963
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Date of Prayer: 29 April 1963
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Heavenly Father, who discerns all and knows all, who guides the destinies of men, who created man in His own image and made him a partner in creation, who endowed man with wisdom and privileged him to shape his own destiny, unto Thee we pray. | |
We invoke Thy blessings upon the deliberations of this great legislative body, which has been charged by the millions of citizens of our great democracy to implement and put into practice our ideals of brotherhood, freedom, and the dignity of man. Inspire them with the wisdom to choose the path that leads to righteousness. Grant that their decisions shall be wise and their efforts fruitful. | |
The people of these great United States have always demonstrated their dedication to the ideals of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God, upon which our great Nation is founded. | |
The Jewish people, the world over, shall be eternally grateful that at a critical juncture in human history fifteen years ago, it was this august body which gave its support and recognition to the reestablishment in Thy Holy Land of an abode for the harrowed and harassed children of Israel. Today our people reap the fruits of the presence of a great fortress of freedom in the Near East, the State of Israel, which is dedicated to the same ideals which we hold sacred. | |
Fulfill for all mankind the words of an ancient prayer of Rabbi Ami, “May your lips speak knowledge and preach righteousness, and may your steps ever hasten to the coveted goal of peace which is Thy name.”[1] An abbreviated adaptation of the prayer of Rav Ammi in Berakhot.17a.15, combined with a separate teaching, found in Shabbat 10b.2, that Shalom (peace) is itself one of the Divine names. Amen. |
This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the fourth month of the first session of the 88th US Congress in the House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 109, part 6 (29 April 1963), page 7221.
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Congressional Record, vol. 109, part 6 (29 April 1963), p. 7221
Notes
| 1 | An abbreviated adaptation of the prayer of Rav Ammi in Berakhot.17a.15, combined with a separate teaching, found in Shabbat 10b.2, that Shalom (peace) is itself one of the Divine names. |
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