[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Page 1144]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                                 PRAYER

  The PRESIDENT pro tempore. Today's opening prayer will be offered by 
Rabbi Yosef Greenberg, founder and spiritual leader of the Lubavitch 
Jewish Center of Alaska in Anchorage, AK.
  The guest Chaplain offered the following prayer:
  Almighty God, I invoke Your blessing today on this honorable body, 
the United States Senate. In these troubling times, when misguided 
people use religion to commit the greatest crimes against humanity by 
stabbing and murdering innocent men, women, and children in the Middle 
East, Europe, Israel, the U.S.A., and all over the world, may You 
grant, Almighty God, that the Members of this honorable body have the 
wisdom and courage to embody the universal values of the Seven 
Commandments which You, Almighty God, issued to Noah and his family 
after the Great Flood, the foremost of which is not to commit murder. 
Grant, Almighty God, that the Members of the Senate, who assembled here 
today, to fulfill one of Your Seven Commandments, the Commandment to 
govern by just laws, understand that the United States has the ability 
to lead the entire world and be a role model in spreading and 
incorporating Your Seven Laws, and in doing so, have the power to bring 
healing and peace to a struggling and broken world that is facing 
ongoing terror and violence.
  Almighty God, I beseech You today to bless the Senate, in the merit 
of one of the spiritual giants of our time and our Nation, the 
Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of saintly blessed 
memory, who launched the universal campaign to bring the awareness of 
Your Seven Sacred Laws to all mankind, that we may all see the 
fulfillment of humanity's great future, as proclaimed by Isaiah, 
``nation shall not lift the sword against nation, neither shall they 
learn war anymore.''
  Amen.

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