Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Leo Landman on 17 October 1967

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Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies, United States of America

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90th Congress, 20th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 58th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, U.S. House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains

Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Leo Landman, Beth Emeth Congregation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sponsor: Rep. Joshua Eilberg (D-PA)
Date of Prayer: 17 October 1967

Mr. EILBERG, Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to you, to this House, and to Dr. Latch for the opportunity of having today’s opening prayer offered by the spiritual leader of my own congregation, Rabbi Leo Landman.
As a member and trustee of Congregation Beth Emeth, I would like to say I am very proud of Dr. Landman. I hasten to add, however, that I hope no one will get the idea I have sought the pulpit of the House as a showcase for him through which other congregations may attempt to lure him from us. I hope he will remain in Philadelphia for as long a time as I know his words will remain with our Members of the House who are here to hear him today.
The high regard in which we hold him is evidenced in part by the fact that a number of congregants sought to share the honor by accompanying him here from Philadelphia today. I wish to state that in addition to being spiritual leader of Congregation Beth Emeth, Dr. Landman holds a number of other distinctions.
He is assistant to the president of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, vice president of the Philadelphia Board of Rabbis and regional vice president of the rabbinic alumni of Yeshiva University.
He is a graduate of both Yeshiva and Dropsie, from which he received his Ph.D.
It is particularly fitting, I think, that in this body of representatives of all American people, our daily deliberations continue to be begun with a prayer for divine guidance. I am appreciative of the fact that my own congregation also has been allowed to share in these daily invocations.

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	Almighty God, we thank Thee for the blessings bestowed upon our Nation.
	We pray Thee, make us ever cognizant of the fact that liberty and justice, freedom and peace, are not automatic possessions, but are gifts to be constantly guarded in a ceaseless vigil demanding our best energies and our devoutest zeal.
	Bless the President, the Speaker, and all Members of this House. May the harvest of their efforts provide amply for the body and soul of each resident of this land. May they as leaders of our Nation choose programs of statesmanship that will alleviate the tensions that separate men, promote harmonious human interdependence, make want and misery disappear, and allow every man in every nation to enjoy the blessings of freedom. Amen.

This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the tenth month of the first session of the 90th US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 113 part 21 (17 October 1967), page 29023.

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Congressional Record, vol. 113, part 21 (17 October 1967), p. 29023

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Leo Landman

Rabbo Leo Landman (1928-2001) was an Orthodox rabbi and scholar in the United States. He graduated Yeshiva College in 1949 and received his semikhah at Yeshiva University in 1951. At Dropsie College in Philadelphia, he acquired his doctorate. He joined the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS) in 1969 as secretary of the faculty and assistant professor of Jewish history and as an adjunct associate professor besides serving as a dean of undergraduate Jewish studies at YU and as a dean for BRGS.. He served as rabbi for Congregation Talmud Torah of Flatbush (Brooklyn, New York) and was active in the Philadelphia Jewish community. He authored Jewish law in the diaspora (1968), The Cantor: an Historic Perspective (1972), Judaism and Drugs (1973), Messianism in the Talmudic era (1979).

the Congressional Record of the United States of America

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)

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

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