Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Jerome Weistrop on 18 July 1967

Contributor(s): the Congressional Record of the United States of America and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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Categories: 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

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

Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Jerome Weistrop, Temple Shalom, Milton, Massachusetts
Sponsor: Rep. James A. Burke (D-MA)
Date of Prayer: 18 July 1967

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	Av Haraḥamim — Merciful Father, We ask Thy guidance, that we may work for the goals which we know to be good, despite pressures to act expediently.
	Help us to resist the temptation to be satisfied with short-term rewards, that we may work toward permanent achievement.
	As these Members of Congress grapple with today’s challenges—
	Open their minds, that they may learn from each other;
	Open their hands, that they may cooperatively work together;
	Open their hearts, that they may judge each other’s motives charitably.
	May we always remember—
	If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am for myself alone, what am I?^[1] Find Pirkei Avot 1:14, a teaching in the name of Hillel the Elder.
	Amen.

This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the seventh month of the first session of the 90th US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 113 part 14 (18 July 1967), page 19224.

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Congressional Record, vol. 113, part 14 (18 July 1967), p. 19224

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1	Find Pirkei Avot 1:14, a teaching in the name of Hillel the Elder.

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Aharon N. Varady (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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