“Installation Prayer” by Rabbi Wolf Gunther Plaut was first published in Rabbi Morrison David Bial’s anthology, An Offering of Prayer (1962), p. 51, from where this prayer was transcribed.

This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the twelfth month of the second session of the 81st US House of Representatives, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 96 part 12 (6 December 1950), p. 16206.