Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Morris A. Landes on 2 May 1968

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Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies, Yom ha-Atsma'ut (5 Iyyar), Medinat Yisra'el (the State of Israel), United States of America

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

Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Morris A. Landes, Congregation Adath Jeshurun, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sponsor: Sen. Joseph Clark (D-PA)
Date of Prayer: 2 May 1968

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	Our God and God of our fathers, we are thankful for the dream which is these United States of America, one Nation unified in spirit and in purpose, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and are endowed with God-given rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness^[1] Cf. the US Declaration of Independence, stylized by Benjamin Franklin and penned by Thomas Jefferson, famously signed 4 July 1776. Scholars differ as to whether the historical origin of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are rooted in Lockean Rights (following after the “Virginia Declaration of Rights” written by George Mason and adopted 12 June 1776) or possibly in Jefferson’s self-proclaimed Epicureanism. –Aharon Varady. without regard to race, color, creed, or place of national origin. Grant us the wisdom and the understanding to make that dream a reality for all the inhabitants of our oceanbound borders.
	May concord and harmony exist within our Nation, and may we exert our tremendous spiritual and material assets for the well-being of all our citizens and for the improvement of the lot of all mankind.
	On this day, the 20th anniversary of the State of Israel, we are thankful as well for an ancient prophecy come true, whereby the people of the Bible have returned to the land of the Bible there to found once again a nation promised by Biblical Writ.
	We are grateful that the dream and the prophecy have joined together in the sympathetic support manifested by our great Nation to the concept of a reborn State of Israel during the decades when that State was aborning, and in the brotherly friendship that has prevailed in the two decades of Israel’s existence between our own glorious and established democracy and the young democratic bastion in the Near East which is the State of Israel.
	O, Thou whose name is “Peace,” spread Thy canopy of peace over a troubled and groping humanity. Amen.

This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the fourth month of the second session of the 90th US Congress in the Senate, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 114, part 9 (2 May 1968), p. 11537.

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Congressional Record, vol. 114, part 9 (2 May 1968), p. 11537

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1	Cf. the US Declaration of Independence, stylized by Benjamin Franklin and penned by Thomas Jefferson, famously signed 4 July 1776. Scholars differ as to whether the historical origin of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” are rooted in Lockean Rights (following after the “Virginia Declaration of Rights” written by George Mason and adopted 12 June 1776) or possibly in Jefferson’s self-proclaimed Epicureanism. –Aharon Varady.

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Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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Morris A. Landes

Rabbi Morris A. Landes (1917-1997), from nearby Boston, Massachusetts, was an Orthodox rabbi in the United States. Ordained in 1941 from Yeshiva University, he first served the combined congregation of Cneseth Israel in Pittsburgh before arriving at Congregation Adath Jeshurun (Pittsburgh), He was national vice president of the of the Rabbinical Council of America, national vice president of the Zionist Organization of America, among other roles. He was honored by Israel Bonds on two occasions and received the ZOA's highest national honor, its Louis Brandeis Award.

United States Congressional Record

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)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17