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Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Tzvi H. Porath, Adat Reyim Congregation of Neighbors, Springfield, Virginia
Date of Prayer: 14 May 1991
Date of Prayer: 14 May 1991
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Our Heavenly Father, we invoke Thy blessing upon the Members of the Senate of the United States as they prepare to deliberate the vital issues affecting our Nation. | |
We are grateful to Thee for Thy gift of the moral and spiritual teachings which have become part and parcel of the fundamental beliefs upon which our country was founded. | |
We ask Thee to imbue those who guide the affairs of state with insight and wisdom “so that justice and equity, peace and serenity, happiness and prosperity abide among us. | |
“May all the inhabitants of this Nation join in a common bond of fellowship and brotherhood to banish hatred and bigotry, to safeguard the ideals and free institutions which are the pride and glory of our Nation. | |
“May this land under Your providence continue to be an influence for good throughout the world, uniting all people in peace and freedom and helping them to fulfill the vision of Your prophet: ‘nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore’ (Isaiah 2:4; Micah 4:3).”[1] Adapted from Siddur Sim Shalom. Amen. |
Source(s)
102nd Congress, 1st Session. C-SPAN.
Congressional Record, Vol. 137, Part 8 — Bound Edition, p. 10762.
Congressional Record v. 137, part 8 – 14 May 1991. p. 10762
Notes
| 1 | Adapted from Siddur Sim Shalom. |
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