tagged: 36th Congress • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶּקט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Morris J. Raphall on 1 February 1860

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Morris Jacob Raphall

Categories:

United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies

Tags:

Slaveholders' Rebellion (1861-1865), 36th Congress, 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, House of Representatives, Prayers of Guest Chaplains

This is the text of the Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall’s prayer offered before the U.S. House of Representatives as recorded in the Congressional Globe, (part 1, 36th Congress, 1st Session, 1859-1860) pp. 648-649, and reprinted in The Occident and American Jewish Advocate, 18:46 9 Feb 1860, pp. 275-276. . . .