Rabbi Pinchus Ciment
Lubavitch of Arkansas
Little Rock, AK
Sponsor: Rep. French Hill, (R-AR)
Date of Prayer: 03/27/2025
One Minute Speech Given in Recognition of the Guest Chaplain:
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to welcome today's guest chaplain, my friend, Rabbi Pinchus Ciment.
Rabbi Ciment is the director of Chabad Lubavitch of Arkansas in Little Rock and is currently the longest serving rabbi in our State.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and moved to Little Rock with his wife in 1992.
Rabbi Ciment has lectured on matters in Judaism at several universities in Arkansas and has been a frequent author in the ‘‘Ask the Clergy'' section of our statewide newspaper, the Arkansas Democrat–Gazette. He studied at the Rabbinical Seminary in Morristown, New Jersey, and the Central Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York, receiving his rabbinical ordination in 1990.
Rabbi Ciment is a devoted husband to Estie and a proud father of 10 children.
I extend my heartfelt thanks to Rabbi Ciment for delivering a beautiful opening prayer.
Mr. Speaker, I wish him, his family, and Chabad Lubavitch of Arkansas continued success in serving the central Arkansas community.
Opening Prayer Given by the Guest Chaplain:
Almighty God, I begin my prayer with an act of charitable kindness. Creator and master of His universe.
After the biblical story of the great flood in which You spared Noah and his family, You gave guidance and instructions through them to all of humanity. You taught how to lead a moral, ethical, and productive life in the form of seven guiding principles, also known as the Seven Noahide Laws.
These laws are found in the Bible in the Book of Genesis and its sacred commentaries and include:
To worship You, not to blaspheme Your name, not to commit murder, not to engage in illicit relationships, not to commit theft, not to be cruel to any living creature, and for every society to be governed by just laws that are based on the recognition and acknowledgment of You, O God, as the sovereign ruler of all humankind and all nations.
Almighty God, bless the Members of this august body, the United States House of Representatives, who convene to fulfill Your very guidance to establish such just laws. Bless them with health, clarity, wisdom, compassion, and good fellowship.
I beseech You, in the merit of the great leader and spiritual giant, the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of saintly and blessed memory, who came to these shores in 1941 and described this country as a nation of kindness, and who passionately shared the richness and importance of the said Seven Noahide Laws for all to embrace, to please grant that the vision of our Nation for a world imbued with peace and tranquility be the crowning achievements of this mighty and awesome Chamber in our days. And let us say, Amen.
To learn more about Members who have sponsored a Guest Chaplain, please visit the Congressional Biographical Directory