Tephilah. Recited at a public gathering held at the Beith Ya’akov synagogue in Jerusalem

(AMERICAN JUDAICA )

Jerusalem

(1898)

Prayer composed by Chief Rabbi Samuel Salant of Jerusalem for the success of the American Armed Forces in the Spanish-American War of 1898, “a war (fought) for freedom and the love of man.” In the text of the prayer, the United States is described as an “enlightened nation” fighting not to enlarge it’s borders or to conquer territory, but to “rescue a poor nation from its oppressors.” Rabbi Salant is given the unusual title as “President of the European and American Rabbis residing in Jerusalem.”