[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9996]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Rabbi Daniel Ginsberg, associate dean, Ohr Somayach-Tanenbaum 
College, Jerusalem, and rabbi of Yeshiva Ateres Shmuel, of Waterbury, 
CT, offered the following prayer:
  Our Father in Heaven, bless the United States of America and the 
brave men and women of our Armed Forces who have left their loved ones 
in defense of freedom.
  Bless our lawmakers--men and women who love to serve and who will 
serve with love. Place into their hearts and into the hearts of their 
counselors a moral compass to guide them to the right decisions. O 
Lord, protect and inspire these good, gifted, and gracious people. 
Endow them with courage, fortitude, wisdom, and crown them with 
humility and compassion. May the eternal teachings always be with 
them--to act with accountability, to relate with respect, to be 
diligent and devoted, to be a friend of truth.
  May our beloved United States be a place where dreams are worth 
dreaming, a place where sacrifices are worth enduring and where our 
tomorrows can be even better than our todays.
  Amen.

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