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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION
VOL. VI . NO. 16.
Per Year, $2.00; Copy 25 cents.
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1919.
The Call of the Shofar
Rosh Hashonah-5680
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BY RABBI JUDAH L. LEVIN
Rabbi of the United Jewish Orthodox Congregations of Detroit.
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RABBI JUDAH L. LEVIN
The coining year 5680, will call the truah," the short broken blast of the
LITZSISISIEF
Jewish people to the fulfillment oi; shofar, which calls to the help of our
three great obligations. And these distressed brethren across the seas, to B
will present themselves with a stern • heal their wounds, to repair their
behest for the exercise of the true ! broken limbs, to alleviate their suffer-
spirit of self-sacrificing devotion to lug. We cannot fail to respond the
the cause of the betterment of the cries of suffering any more than we
welfare of the Jewish people through- • can ignore the pains of our own flesh
out the world and the spreading of and blood. We must answer this call
the Jewish spirit. in haste and with the fullness of our
heart.
The first great task is the rebuild-
Thirdly, there is the call of the
ing of Jerusalem, and in conjunction
with that all the work which today Lord for the observance of his laws
and
commandments. This call brings
must form a necessary part of *-
claiming and reconstructing the a message which is the same year in
Jewish homeland "Eretz Yisroel." The and year out, for all times and places.
symbol of this duty is well expressed This three-fold message of the shofar
in the blasts of the shofar. which we , blast can be further identified in the
shall hear itt the synagogue before I three-fold division of the Mussaph
long. Though the shofar sounds alike service on Rosh Hashanah, the "Mat-
to our ears from year to year, yet chioth," "Zichronoth." and "Shofroth."
every year it calls us to new tasks. The call to observance should be
Last Rosh Hashonah the call of the mentioned again because it is so often
shofar was a call to arms in the cause misunderstood or consciously miscon-
of freedom and right. Then the "te- strued. It is not an invitation to come
kiah" emphasized deliverance; now it to the synagogue twice a year. It is a
is the redemption and the conserva- demand for a complete fulfillment of
tion of the Jewish nation, the great duty as set down by the Torah. It
work which must needs lead the does not involve talking about what
Jewish people to use a truer and Judaism is or is not; it involves living
nobler life in the goluth as well as up to the law as set down in our
realize the fulfillment of their real Torah. Judiasm has been lost in
destiny in the homeland. The 'le - philosophical discussion. The shofar
kiah" is not only a signal for the calls us to action, to a living of the
awakening of Jewish energies, but is Jewish life and not to seeking ways
in fact a token of God's injunction' to avoid it. The yearly pilgrimage to
to us that we contribute our best synagogues have too long been the
to the upbuilding and reconstructing measure of religious observance, on
of the Holy Land. May not this "te-'the part of numerous Jews. \\'e must
kiah" be the very one spoken in our. begin to measure religion on the scale
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Rosh Ilashonah prayer, in these of moments and hours instead of the
words? "Sound the great shofar for • scale of years, for who can measure
our liberation." 'the importance of each moment in
Secondly, there is the "shvortm-' our lives to ourselves or to others'
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How shall I weave my web of song for this New Year?
For the worms are spinning their coils of dread at this
New Year,
And as the Body creeps and crawls to the tread
Of a new-old march to the House of the Dead.
From my flaming Soul there is spinning a thread—
A Scarlet Thread for this New Year.
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An Atoning Goat for this New Year.
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To be tugged to the brink of the Sacrifice for this New
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And the cords of the Soul asunder burst with this jubilant
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