[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 107 (Wednesday, June 28, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H6399]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Israel, offered the following 
prayer:
  Our Father in Heaven, bless and grace the House of Representatives of 
the United States of America, and lead them in the right way to bring 
peace in the United States of America and in the entire universe, for 
the benefit of all mankind.
  I am very happy to be here and to thank you for the declaration and 
proclamation offering the Congressional Golden Medal and tribute in 
honor of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 
spiritual leader not only for the Jewish people but for all mankind, 
leading us as a scholar, as a guide, in the period, in the age of the 
end of the Second World War, out of the Holocaust, from the darkness of 
the Holocaust, which I was personally very lucky to be one of its 
survivors, to show us there is a light in the edge of the tunnel. He 
showed us the way of spirit, of hope, of faith, of education, to all 
the good and the best it can be.
  His colleagues, his students, his followers, the Chabad Movement of 
Lubavitch, in its over 2,000 educational and social institutions, bring 
to a world which will be improved in peace, in health, in happiness.
  So I appreciate on behalf of the State of Israel, of the people of 
Israel, of the people, the Jewish people all over the world, your 
brilliant idea, the House of Representatives of the leaders of the free 
world, United States of America, for this contribution to peace all 
over the world.
  Let us say, all of us, He, the Almighty who makes peace in His 
heights, will make peace upon us, upon the entire universe.
  And let us say: Amen.

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