[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 126 (Thursday, July 25, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H7389]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 
Ohio, offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, master of the universe, I invoke Your blessing today on 
the Members of this honorable institution, the House of Representatives 
of the United States of America. May they humbly serve their 
constituencies, aware that creating just legislation is one of the 
seven laws that You, almighty God, gave all humanity through Noah, as 
detailed in Genesis.
  Almighty God, as a descendant of Chassidic Jews who fled the 
Stalinist regime that persecuted religious observance, I am especially 
grateful and blessed to be in America, the nation called the ``country 
of kindness'' by the great spiritual leader of our generation, the 
Lubavitcher Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson. 
We thank you for the freedom we have here to practice our faith, and we 
pray for those who still suffer persecution around the world.
  While legislating, by definition, includes differences of opinion and 
rigorous debate, I pray that we, nevertheless, anticipate our shared 
bright future in the time of redemption and, thus, remain ``one nation 
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.''
  Amen.

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