PRAYERS FOR THE JEWS IN THE SOVIET UNION EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. ABRAHAM J. MULTER OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

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Prayers for the Jews in the Soviet Union
EXTENSION OF REMARKS
OF
HON. ABRAHAM J. MULTER
OF NEW YORK
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Monday, June 8, 1964
Mr. MULTER. Mr. Speaker, on
April 5 and 6, 1964, 24 major Jewish
national organizations gathered in
Washington to give united expression to
their grave concern over the plight of the
3 million Jews in the Soviet Union.
This American Conference on Soviet
Jewry was inspired during its meetings
by the following prayer for Soviet Jewry
by Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman, chief
rabbi of Israel:
PRAYER FOR SOVIET JEWRY
(Prepared by the chief rabbi of Israel-
translated freely)
Our God who art in Heaven, Thy people
stand before Thee this day in prayer for the
myriads of Thy children for whom it has
been decreed that they be but off from all
who acknowledge Thy kingdom.
They have been deprived of their freedom,
their synagogues and study halls have been
closed; and they can no longer study Thy
Torah, keep Thy laws or observe Thy com-
mandments without fear.
In loneliness, our forsaken brethren cry
out against the chains and shackles in which
they have been bound to stifle their souls,
blot out their identities, and remove all
memory of their Jewishness. Yet, there still
remain among them those who are loyal to
Thy Torah and fulfill Thy commandments at
the risk of their very lives. We, their breth-
ren, pray to Thee and Invoke Thy help for
them, for we are powerless.
Our Father, Thou hast assured us that
Thy Torah would not be destroyed nor for-
gotten by the seed of Abraham; that "in all
their affliction, Thou are afflicted" and that
Thy divine presence will spare them, -
We turn to Thee and seek Thy divine pres-
ence; we beseech Thee to preserve the rem-
nant of Jacob because there is none to help
beside Thee. Let no curtain of iron separate
our brethren from Thee. Show them Thy
might and Thy salvation. Frustrate the
counsel of those who would oppress them.
Redeem them from their trials and servitude
and proclaim Thy freedom until them, so
that they may keep Thy Torah and Thy com-
mandments with none to make them afraid.
Open for them the gates of freedom and
bring them up until Thy holy mountain so
that all the nations may know that Thou art
the Sovereign of the Universe, the Redeemer,
and Saviour of Israel.
The conference was also privileged to
be led by Rabbi Solomon J. Sharfman
of the Synagogue Council of America in
the following prayer for the Jews of the
Soviet Union:
PRAYER OF RABBI SOLOMON J. SIIARFMAN OF
THE SYNAGOGUE COUNCIL OF AMERICA AT THE
AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON SOVIET JEWRY
Our God who art in Heaven. Thy people
Israel stands before Thee this day in prayer
for the myriads of Thy children upon whom
it bath been decreed to be severed from all
who profess Thy sovereignty. In Soviet Rus-
sia, their synagogues and study halls have
been closed or destroyed; and they can no
longer study Thy Torah without fear, keep
Thy laws without molestation, or speak their
language and live their lives in equality with
their neighbors.
They are singled out as Jews and harassed
from birth to death and even in burial for
their Jewishnese. The loneliness and for-
sakeness of our brethren cry out even more
when their own spiritual leaders are com-
pelled to deny their evil lot, justify their in-
justices and publicly protest all efforts of
their more fortunate brethren in other lands
to alleviate their plight and to restore their
legal and human rights to justice and equal-
ity under the law of their very own land.
0 God, our Father, see how we have be-
come for too long now an object of contempt
and derision among the nations. We are
counted as sheep led to the slaughter, to be
slain and destroyed, or to be beaten and dis-
graced. And those who were loud in their
outcries only yesterday have become so blind
and so relentless that they have become our
oppressors and tormentors today.
Enlighten them, dear God to the evil of
their ways that they may hearken to the
wiser and kindlier and more just counsels
that arise even in their own midst. Open
their eyes that they may see the chains and
shackles in which they have bound our breth-
ren, to stifle their souls and blot out their
identities, so that there shall remain no
memory of Jews, Jewishness, and Jewish cul-
ture in a land whose soil has been richly
fructified by Jewish blood for over 2,000
years, in peace as well as in war. Show them
that the bonds which are forged to enchain
Israel always serve in the end to strangulate
all people, the tormentors as well as the
tormented.
Strangers say to us: "There Is no hope for
you." So hasten Thy deliverance, for Thy
people are worn out and no rest is granted
them. When men do evil and spare not, for
Thine own sake, deal kindly with us and
delay not.
Guardian of Israel. Arouse the conscience
and awaken the hearts of all mankind, so
that deliverance may be forthcoming now,
instead of pious regret and vain repentance
when it is already too late.
Let no curtains of iron separate us from
Thee, our Father in Heaven. Have mercy
and grant relief - to our brethren who are In
distress and fear and desolation, that they
may enjoy light instead of darkness, liberty
In place of oppression, so that we may serve
Thee as a people united in one faith, to help
bring Thy blessings of peace and brotherhood
for all mankind speedily and very soon; and
let us all say "amen. "
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