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The Office of the Chief Rabbi is the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth and is the senior rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations. The present incumbent is Ephraim Mirvis who leads the Office of the Chief Rabbi (OCR).
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Nathan Marcus Adler | Joseph Herman Hertz | Ephraim Mirvis | Unknown Author(s) | Isidor Grunfeld | Alexander Altmann | Michael Adler | Mark Gollop | Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation) | Israel Brodie | Jonathan Sacks | the Congressional Record of the United States of America | David ben Yishai (traditional attribution)
Prayer for the cessation of a cattle plague and for protection from cholera, by Chief Rabbi Nathan Marcus Adler (1865)
Contributed by Nathan Marcus Adler | Office of the Chief Rabbi of the UHC of the UK & the Commonwealth | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
This is a prayer for cattle afflicted by an epizootic contagion (in this case, Rinderpest, a/k/a cattle plague), and for the protection of human beings from cholera, prescribed by the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain, Nathan Marcus Adler, and published in The Hebrew Leader (24 November 1865), p. 1. . . .
