[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 93 (Wednesday, June 6, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H4782]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Aaron Krupnick, Congregation Beth El, Voorhees, New Jersey, 
offered the following prayer:
  Our God and God of our ancestors:
  On the long road to freedom from Egypt, You led 12 diverse tribes, 
instructing each to march under their own banner. They did not always 
see eye to eye, but they could, nonetheless, walk shoulder to shoulder. 
In spite of their disagreements, they had sworn an oath to You to be 
one nation under God.
  Dear Lord, help the Members of this Congress to be ever mindful of 
the fact that the right to disagree is fundamental to our democracy. 
Foster in them the art of disagreement that the Jewish people have been 
practicing for millennia. Enable them to grant their adversaries moral 
respect; to give those of opposing opinions the intellectual benefit of 
doubt; to have sympathy for their motives and listen with empathy to 
their lines of reasoning.
  Grant all the Members of our House of Representatives insight into 
this art of disagreement. Endow them with discernment and wisdom, 
patience and understanding, kindness and compassion. Let them walk 
humbly before those who they serve and thereby bring us all that much 
closer to You and to one another. God, bless this great Nation and 
those who lead it.
  Amen.

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