Prayer of the Guest Chaplain of the U.S. Senate: Rabbi Chaim U. Lipschitz on 28 March 1962
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Categories: 🇺🇸 United States of America, Opening Prayers for Legislative Bodies
Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., 87th Congress, English vernacular prayer, Prayers of Guest Chaplains, U.S. Senate, תחינות teḥinot
Excerpt: The Opening Prayer given in the U.S. Senate on 28 March 1962. . . .
Content:
Guest Chaplain: Rabbi Chaim U. Lipschitz, editor of the
Jewish Press, Brooklyn, New York
Sponsor: n/a
Date of Prayer: 28 March 1962
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With great love Thou lovest us, O Lord, our God,
and with Thy great compassion
Thou hast abundance of pity on us.
O our Father, our King,
for the sake of our fathers who trusted in Thee,
to whom Thou didst teach the statutes of life,
so shalt Thou favor and teach us.
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O Father, who art a merciful Father,
have compassion on us we beseech Thee,
and grant our hearts understanding,
that we may comprehend, hear,
learn, teach,
observe, perform, and establish
all the learning of Thy law, with love;
and enlighten our eyes in Thy law,
and our hearts to love and fear Thy name,
that we may not be abashed forevermore;
for in Thy holy, great, and tremendous name
we trust.
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We shall be glad, and rejoice in Thy salvation,
when Thou bringest us with peace
from the four corners of the earth
and conductest us with uprightness,
for Thou art the Almighty who workest salvation.
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Our God, and God of our Fathers,
be Thou with the mouths of the deputies
of this worthy Senate of the United States
who stand in Thy presence.
Teach them what they will say,
instruct them what they will speak,
answer their requests,
and cause them to know how to glorify Thee.
May they walk in the light of Thy countenance;
may they bend their knees unto Thee,
and with their mouths bless Thy people.
O bless them altogether
with the blessings of Thy mouth.
Amen.
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This prayer of the guest chaplain was offered in the third month of the second session of the 87th US Congress in the Senate, and published in the Congressional Record, vol. 108, part 4 (1962), page 5205. Rabbi Lipschitz offered the exact same prayer when he was guest chaplain before the Senate on 25 March 1965 (as found in Congressional Record, vol. 111, part 5 (1965), page 5813.)
Source(s)
Congressional Record, vol. 108, part 4 (28 March 1962), p. 5205
Congressional Record, vol. 111, part 5 (25 March 1965), p. 5813
Contributor: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Co-authors:
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Name: Chaim Uri Lipschitz
Bio: Rabbi Chaim Uri Lipschitz (1912-2002), born in Jerusalem, was an Orthodox rabbi and author in the United States. He served as director of the yeshivah, Mesivta Talmudical Seminary (Brooklyn, New York). He wrote Discrimination in banking; a survey in depth (1970), ספר אורי חיים : על ענינים שונים (1980, 1982), Betrothed Forever (1980), Franco, Spain, the Jews, and the Holocaust (1984) and נס הצלה The Shanghai Connection (1987), a story of the rescue of the Mir Yeshiva during the Holocaust, אשכבתא דצדיקיא (1990), and with Neil Rosenstein, The Feast and the Fast: The Dramatic Personal Story of Yom Tov Lipman Heller (1984). We know very little else about Rabbi Lipschitz. If you can add additional details to this short bio, then please contact us.
Website:
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/chaim-uri-lipschitz
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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)
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Record
Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/united-states-congressional-record
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Name: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
Website: https://aharon.varady.net
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