THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE PAGE TEN The Legend of the Goblet. spirit of service and of sacrifice in every department of our Jewish life. I hold that the most urgent want of the day is the provision of sound BY S. FRUG. and thorough religious and Jewish in- struction for our young, the unifica- • 'Dear mother, how true is the story tion and systematization of the work Which grandfather told me today— in our various existing Hebrew That close to God's altar in Heaven schools, and the creation of new There standeth a goblet alway? BY RABBI A. M. HERSHMAN schools wherever necessary. We must And with each disaster mankind Of Congregation Shearer Zedek address ourselves to the task of deep- wreaks upon us, ening and quickening the Jewish con- And tortures, and torments, and sciousness of our children and thus sighs— make them safe for Judaism. There trickles a tear-drop and falls The time, moreover, has come in the goblet when we must think in terms of Is- From God's sad and sorrowing rael, Israel the living people, the spir- eyes; itual nation. We must work not only And when at the brim the clear tear- for the survival of Israel and Judaism, drops are showing but also for their revival. "Pray for The goblet divine overflowing— the peace of Jerusalem; may they Messiah on earth will appear— prosper that love thee." We must The prophet whose glory our prayers avail ourselves of the sacred and are relating, unique privilege afforded to us to Messiah for whom our own nation's work for the realization of our peo- been waiting ple's destiny and thus make Israel And hoping from year unto year." safe for the great future in store for true, oh my precious, what " him." grandfather told you." Hay the year 5680, of which the The soother made answer with pain; ehronogram Is "Tereph" bring heeling And the boy, lost in thought, medi- to Israel and to the world at large. tated, But soon lie was asking again: "Oh, when, pray, dear soother, do tell me, my dearest, The tears will the goblet fill up? lie is a child, and yet he is Or did the long centuries drain all our Much older than his years; weeping, He laughs, but in his laugh is oft Or is it . . . a bottomless cup?" More sadness than in tears. His eyes, full of mildness, he turns to his mother He frisks and sports. but 'mid his And gazes imploringly at her. With innocent mien full of dread. pranks Forlorn and dejected the mother is He stares and in his face standing, You read, as in an open book. A tear in her eyes is beginning to The drama of his race. tremble, And falls on her son's little head, And in his deep, dark sparkling eyes And hence like a diamond resplendent Vnu see his people's doom; Begins to his forehead to roll— They mirror both bright Eastern O God, in Thy goblet in Heaven This sacred tear also may fall! skies —Translated from the Russian by And Northern mist and gloom. E. A. He plays, he capers like a child, But oft it seems to you RABBI A. M. HERSHMAN. That in a moment he will grow At this season of the year, and at them forth from trouble to enlarge- An old. a wandering Jew this juncture of our history, every son Hem, from darkness to light, and from What is that which means the end and daughter of Israel should reflect, subjection to redemption I" This He frolics, but his very glee upon the many duties and responsibil- I prayer, voicing the hope of medieval And is the means? With pathos is entwined; ities which confront our people. "Thy' Jewry, is, alas! by no means obsolete Like the paints which gently blend people's needs are large." May it not even in this twentieth century, and He's child and man, He's young and To make the scenes. old, be said of them, that "their knowledge after the close of the "War of Liber- He's joy and gloom combined. ia broken." ation." It is our supreme duty to do What is that which age must share —Philip M. Raskin. There seems, alas! to be no uplift- all within our power to make the Alike with youth, ing of the dark cloud which has so world safe for Israel. Not night can dim, nor noon-day When we scan our spiritual condi- long shrouded our brethren in Eastern It was announced at Ukranian glare? Europe. "As for our children of the lion at home, we are painfully aware house of Israel who are given over to that there prevail much estrangement headquarters, says a London dispatch, Why, simp.hy—truth. that the Ministerial Coned of Ukrane trouble or captivity, whether they and aloofness, and yet at no period in abide on sea or land, may God have our history was there a greater need has deeded to apply the death penalty —Enoch Nlebs. mercy upon them, and speedily bring for strenuonsness, for manifesting a to the authors of anti-Jewish pogroms. 0 === 0=0 0=0" ---"— ; 0=0 c===10= A Prayer for Israel Heads Temple Auxiliary On Rosh Hashonah, 5680 THE JEWISH CHILD A Riddle Mrs. Adolph Simon, 3017 East Grand Blvd. Prominent Club !roman of Michigan. President 'roman's Auxiliary of Temple Beth El. -4—' s)-0-0--0-0 -- sb-0 0 0 PORTRAITURE and PHOTOGRAPHY SCHALDENBRAND getoe=10=01=10=101===0=10=10=0== Studio Sittings Home Surroundings U O 402 David Whitney Bldg. 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