[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 21 (Thursday, March 5, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Toby H. Manewith, Director, Hillel Foundation, A.S. Kay 
Spiritual Life Center, American University, Washington, D.C., offered 
the following prayer:
  ``The world rests on 3 things: On din, justice, on emet, truth and on 
shalom, peace.'' This, according to Shimon Ben Gamliel, the first 
century Jewish sage. Though these concepts are intertwined, the first 
two are valued, in part, as agents; it is through them that peace is 
attained. And peace, say the sages, is but another name for that which 
human beings of all walks and stations see as divine.
  Most Holy One,
  May our pursuits be of justice,
  And may truth light our way.
  And through these may we, our leaders, our Nation, its citizens, and 
citizens of the world, be guided on a path of ever increasing peace.
  Amen.

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