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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

NEW YEAR THOUGHTS

.1..ctrities of justice, love and brother-

hood.

! peo ple
`Because I am a Jew' 1 Because

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE .lo
say, live each day

all young people may briefly
as though you
knew you were to be called into eter-
nity tomorrow. Do not make resolu-
tions fur the whole year—just try
each day. 'Try to make every day a
bit fuller and better and intone help-

BY RABBI SAMUEL S. MAYERBERG.
Asst. kabbi, Ten,, e Beth El.

ful than it was yesterday. Commit nu
act you would not be willing to have
your sister see, think no thought you
would not wish your mother to hear.
Keep your hearts and your souls pure.
Read thought building books, think
clean thoughts.
Remember. we live only one day at
a time. You may fail today, then try
:a bit harder again tomorrow. Each
day is a fresh gift from God, a beau-
tiful jewel in the cycle of time. Try
to live a decent, straight, honest, God-
fearing life one day in the year and
having succeeded the first, you will
succeed the second and third and
fourth and you shall then succeed un-
til the spirit shall flee the body and be
gathered into the Infinite Presence.

necaus, I am a Jew, I was Men-
delssolin, conciliator between the
Ghetto and the world without:
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Because I am a Jew, I was Theo-
BY DR. STEPHEN S. \VISE.
dor lIerzl, insistent upon the Jew's
right and duty of self-detertrunatioa:
Because I ant a Jew, I was Abra-
Because I ant a Jew, I must suffer
ham, chatterer of idols:
was Moses, fiery scourge:
wrong without wrath; I must do Ins-
Because I ant a Jew I
Because I am a Jew, I was Bar tice, love mercy, be more than a man
of
challenger
injustice-pursuing Cochlia, terrible thought vain awak-
in forebcarance to man and all of a
kings:
Because I am a Jew, I was Elijah, ever of my people:
man in rightness of act before God
ant
a
Jew,
through
and
man
I
Because
destroyer of the Ila;ilins:
.
Because I am a Jew, I was Isaiah, mediaeval centuries of darkness I
held aloof the torch of light and rea•
dreamer of a warless world:
The orthodox Jews of South Africa
Amos, son passing through the flaming ter-
have recently organized a Mizrachi
Because I am a I CW, I was
exacter of justice from man to man; roe of the inquisition without fear:
League. 'Hie league includes most of
wa s Spinoza. the wealthy and influential Jews of
Because I ant a Jew, I was Ezra, Because 1 ant a Jew, I
bringer back from exile of God's truth-revealer to the modern world: the city of Cape Town and vicinity.

I am a Jew, I was the
\ Lo calican warrior for 1srael's unfet-
tered life:
Because I am a Jew, I Was Akiba,
proclaimer of God's truth and Rome's

Night

I probe the brooding, leaden Skies
And gaze myself sigh blind with
longing:
Dead! . . . the Clouds no whit are
moving,
And no Ray amid the thronging
Fogs; no sign that the Morrow,
Hopeful of Existence,
Shall the deadly Clouds be cleaving
With the joy of Life's Insistence.

RABBI SAMUEL S. MAYERBERG

The New Year is significant for are not theirs to remind that life is
everyone if people desist from their • but a brief span and that we are but
ordinary pursuits long enough to real- born to die. The day should teach Sh-s•sh!
A Throb! Ah, Wings are
flutering
Rosh Hashona is not a day them that life is too short to fritter
Through the air . . . what is
ize it
to he perfunctorily observed, nor is it a is:1y with the frivotities of life all the
waking? . . .
one to be lightly esteemed. It is elements-God gave us to makes us Phew! the Bats! How they are
based upon high religious principles useful to mankind. It should make
prowling! . . .
and if its spirit be sincerely sought it them cognizant of the fact that life
Night is theirs . . .for merry-
may be translated into vital meaning is not measured by the days we live,
making!
for every Jew and Jewess. but by the deeds with which we fill
4 Night, a Night, a jet black Night
Rosh Hashona is a day that bids us them. A man may live to be a century
Dwells on Peak and Vale;
take account of our lives. To take old and minty he said to have never
And the Heavens are sad and
stock or inventory of our spiritual lived, while a man of three decades
gloomy—
selves. It is of value because it makes may be said to have lived through
Raw and cold as hail.
us pause in the headlong, heedless, history. Time is not recorded in our
For the tiny candle
harsh pursuit of our own selfish lives by the tick of the clock, but
Night is not afraid;
pleasures and gives us occasion to rather by what we accomplish from
The Wind, the Minx, yet tries to
view in grandeur those higher things sun to sun.
blow it!
To the young people who went over
which transcend the beaten path of
She laughs, the wicked Jade.
seas, this New Year must indeed be
our routine existence.
For young people especially should fraught with sacred thoughts and fer-
Hark, a Funeral is passing. . . .
Rosh Bastiona hold meaning. It is vent prayers of joy and gratitude.
How it frightens! how it quakes!
significant for them because they are Last year they faced without tremor
for the most part selfish and are bent the presence of pain and death. To- It's whispered Justice bath Departed
And his Farwell Reason takes.
only upon procuring a full measure day they have returned in vigor and

of physical pleasure. Their thoughts health>. Their privilege it was to help
are trot of the future. They live in win the war, their privilege it shall A Night, an awful pitch dark Night
the present. They do not recall "the be to to keep the war won. Theirs
Presses Peak and Vale;
yesterday," they cannot see "the to- it should be to live out in their in- Sable blackness shrouds the heavens,
morrow." Today is all they know. dividual lives all the fine principles
Chilling through like hail.
The bended head, the creaking knee, for which victory was wrought; to
—I. L. Perez.
the tottering step, the shaking hand make a part of their souls the eternal

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In picking one's way amid city traffic or in facing
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Sit at the wheel of the Marmon and you are sur-
prised that any car so long, large and powerful can
respond to your will so nimbly, or be managed with
such ease.

W. D. Block Motor Co.

1225 Woodward Avenue, Detroit.

Phone Market 612.

Michigan Distributor.

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1225

Woodward Ave., Detroit, Michigan Distributors

Phone Market 612

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