Rabbi Shmuel Butman, Lubavitch Youth Organization, Brooklyn, NY, Senate chaplain, June 12, 1991

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Let us pray:

Dear G-d, with Your bountiful mercy we have just celebrated the 50th anniversary of the arrival to these shores of the revered leader of world Jewry, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Shlita.

In these 50 years, the Rebbe has, with Y our divine help, enriched the edu- cational, religious, moral, and ethical lives of millions of people-of all walks of life-throughout the world, and has made this world a better place to live in.

The Rebbe, who was recently honored

The Rebbe has called this year-5751

in the Jewish calendar, "The Year of

Revealed Miracles."

by this Senate on his 89th birthday, made this classification more than a year ago. And it is indeed happening now.

As the year has unfolded, we have seen hundreds of thousands of Jews from the Soviet Union arrive in Israel to start a new life. We were also witness to a crisis in the Middle East of

international proportions and gravest implications.

We thank You, dear G-d, for the mi-

raculously low casualties among the

allied forces led by the United States of

America, and thank You, dear G-d,

that our troops have returned home--

and are returning home-safely.

The Rebbe says that the reason we saw so many miracles this year, and are constantly seeing miracles in our daily lives, is due to the fact that You, Almighty G-d, are preparing the world for the miracle of miracles, the final redemption.

We ask you, dear G-d, to give us the strength to accelerate that process and the inspiration to do an extra good deed each day. In this spirit, dear G-d, I would like to take this opportunity to put a dollar bill, on which the words "In G-d We Trust" are imprinted, into this pushke-charity box.

This charity box reminds us all that we have an obligation not only to our-

selves and our families, but, also, in- deed, to our neighbors and to society in general.

Help us, dear G-d, to bring this mes- sage of charity and of the final redemp- tion to all the people in these great United States, and around the world.

Almighty G-d, in Your infinite wis- dom, Y ou have established the Mem- bers of the Senate as the custodians of honesty and decency, justice, and peace for all peoples in the United States and, through the United States as the moral super power, for all the people of this planet.

We pray, dear G-d, that You continue to bestow Your bounty upon all of the Members of this body. May they merit, dear G-d, to have a "Year of Revealed Miracles" in their communal, national, and international endeavors, as well as in their private lives.

And let us all say: Amen.