Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Morris H. Margolies on 25 February 1986

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Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Morris H. Margolies, Beth Shalom Congregation, Kansas City, Missouri
Sponsor: Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO)
Date of Prayer: 25 February 1986

Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, it is with a great deal of personal pride and pleasure that I introduce and welcome Rabbi Morris B. Margolies to the Members of this body.
An ordained rabbi since 1943, Rabbi Margolies will be retiring this June after 25 years as the rabbi at the Beth Shalom Congregation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Along with a Ph.D. in Jewish history and modern European history from Columbia University, and a master of arts degree in English from the University of Chicago, Rabbi Margolies has written a total of four books and numerous articles.
Mr. Speaker, his many academic honors and his personal devotion to his congregation and to his community in the Kansas City area have brought him honor and renown through the years.
Rabbi Margolies and his wife of 34 years, Ruth, are the proud parents of four beautiful children and one grandchild.
I, along with the Members of this body, take the opportunity to welcome Rabbi Margolies to this Chamber of the House of Representatives and wish him and wish his family all the very best in the years to come.

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	Dear God, Your seal is truth.^[1] Find Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 1.1.12, Bereshit Rabbah 81.2 (Rabbeinu in the name of Rabbi Reuven), Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1.9.1, Shabbat 55a.12, Yoma 69b.6-8 and Sanhedrin 64a.3-5. Also note, Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 1.1.11. Your ideal is peace.^[2] Gittin 59b.11 after Proverbs 3:17. Also find Shabbat 10b after Judges 6:24. Thus have the rabbis of old taught.
	We pray that our Congress apply itself with zeal to that which is truthful, and that with full heart it strive for the attainment of peace.
	Help us, dear Lord, to banish malice and prejudice from our midst, to view all human beings of all races and creeds as having been created in Your image,^[3] Cf. Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 5:1, and especially Midrash Tanchuma Pekudei 3.17. to regard Your magnificent Earth as our sacred charge— a gift to nourish and to cherish, to cultivate and to beautify.^[4] Cf. Genesis 2:15.
	May the vision of Isaiah be fulfilled in our day: “They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my Holy Mountain. For the earth shall fill with knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.” (Isaiah 11:9) Amen.

This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the second month of the second session of the 99th US Congress in the House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 132, part 2 (1986), page 2660.

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Congressional Record, vol. 132, part 2 (25 February 1986), p. 2660

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1	Find Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 1.1.12, Bereshit Rabbah 81.2 (Rabbeinu in the name of Rabbi Reuven), Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1.9.1, Shabbat 55a.12, Yoma 69b.6-8 and Sanhedrin 64a.3-5. Also note, Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 1.1.11.
2	Gittin 59b.11 after Proverbs 3:17. Also find Shabbat 10b after Judges 6:24.
3	Cf. Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 5:1, and especially Midrash Tanchuma Pekudei 3.17.
4	Cf. Genesis 2:15.

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Morris Margolies

Rabbi Morris B. Margolies (1921-2012), born in Jerusalem, was a Conservative movement rabbi who served as rabbi for Congregation Beth Shalom (Kansas City, Missouri) and as an adjunct professor of Jewish history at the University of Kansas. He received his semikhah from Yeshiva University. In Hattiesburg, Mississippi, he marched for civil rights and helped with voter registration drives. He fought for non-discriminatory housing in Kansas City. He called the United States the aggressor in the Vietnam War. On the eve of the 1972 election, he delivered a sermon titled “Throw the Rascal Out,” a scathing reference to Richard Nixon, who was running for a second term. In his Yom Kippur sermon in 1982, he called Israel's invasion of Lebanon “morally unjustified” due to the deaths of so many non-combatants.

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