O Lord of the universe, ruler of mankind,
it hath been told Thee, O man, what is good
and what the Lord doth require of Thee,
but to love with strength
and to do justly with human kind.

We seek daily
to fill our lungs with the correct words,
our minds with responsible ideas,
and our limbs with the power to act righteously.
These characteristics are divine in quality.
Let them not repose in the heavenly spheres
where Thou alone act supreme and exalted.
Let them guide our lives:
in government, and in the street
where human beings congregate.

May our leaders, yea—
may all peoples find the means
to humanize Your ideal concepts,
to the end that in the arena of social domesticity,
in the marketplace of the human situation,
we shall transform the erring part of human frailty
into a plan, where man shall live in peace,
extending love and friendship without favor.

Shalom, peace is not a static quality
in which people rest complacent,
but a dynamic urge to fulfill
our human destiny.

O Lord,
bless the work of our hands
as we dream to labor,
and labor to dream
for such a world.^[1] Adapted from Psalms 90:17 
Amen.