Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives: Rabbi Albert A. Goldman on 8 February 1972
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Categories: 🇺🇸 National Brotherhood Week, 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., 92nd Congress, English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. House of Representatives, תחינות teḥinot
Excerpt: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. House of Representatives on 8 February 1972. . . .
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Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Albert A. Goldman, Isaac M. Wise Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio
Date of Prayer: 8 February 1972
Sponsor: Rep William Keating (R-OH)
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Lord,
this month we recall with reverence
the lives of the great Presidents
who wove the character of our people
upon the loom of history.
From them we have inherited the legacy
that free men alone can create the good society.
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Today, when the acids of disillusionment
corrode our faith in democracy,
when the young despair,
we pray for a renewal of their vision
and exultant faith.
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Help us to regain that idealism
which moved America’s races and peoples
toward brotherhood,
where, transcending differences,
we can realize our individualities.
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Make us whole as we pray
that tomorrow’s great mission of peace
will be the giant step
for the recovery of man’s humanity
and the discovery of our oneness.
Amen.
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This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the second month of the second session of the 92nd US Congress in the House of Representatives. The source images of the prayer were copied by Howard Mortman and shared via his @CongressRabbi Twitter account. All credit to Howard Mortman for his research in digging up this prayer. Unfortunately, neither the source images nor his tweets provide an exact citation reference to the volume, issue, and page number of the Congressional Record in which the prayer was published. If you know, leave a comment, or contact us.
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Prayer of the Guest Chaplain (Albert Goldman, 8 February 1972)
Contributor: Albert A. Goldman
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Name: Albert A. Goldman
Bio: Rabbi Albert A. Goldman (1915-2007), born in Chicago, was a rabbi in the American Reform movement. A graduate of the University of Chicago and of the College of Jewish Studies, in 1940, he was ordained as a rabbi at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. During World War II, he was an army chaplain at Greenland and Lake Placid Rehabilitation Center. From 1946 to 1948, he was the assistant rabbi at Temple Israel in Boston. From 1948 till 1953, he served as a rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Yonkers. Chairman of the Committee on Psychiatry from the Central Conference of American Rabbis, he co-authored Religion and Psychiatry (Beacon Press: 1948), and Marriage and the Home, a pamphlet published by the American Social Hygiene Association. He served as the rabbi of Wise Temple in Cincinnati from 1953 to 1981.
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Name: the Congressional Record of the United States of America
Bio: 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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