THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION Per Year, $3.00; Copy, 10 Cents DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY APRIL 2, 1920 VOL. VII. NO. 18. - • - a preliminaiy training of at least one reciting its pages with a mournful 100,000 year in building construction, road At the innkeeper's the volume re- chant in which the voices of his fath- building, agriculture and all kinds of mained untouched—locked away in a er and his grandfather seemed to pioneer work. drawer. No one in the house had come to life again. After his death, "A pact with the French govern- learned enough to read therein. Only SHOWN' ASCII. his children inherited the volume. ment, dispatching labor battalions of in fateful hours the inkeeper un- The children, ''true goyim and Polish Jews to Northern France, is, The volume whose life-history I am' King David; the multitude of the locked his treasure, not to read, but treifa-eaters" with smooth-shaven New York—Learning to rebuild under the circumstances, a providen- about to relate is the Treatise Hera- people to the glory of the King. All to pray over it—the book became a faces, had a superstitious respect for Palestine by aiding in the restoration tial arrangement. 'file major part of moth in an Old Amsterdam edition.i men are to pray in unison and to sort of idol. of devastated Northern France, is the wages, after a term of service The imprisonment of the volume the volume; they had it beautifully The pages are gilt with age, part of serve Him whose glory tills the uni- bound, like a profane "classic," put it the remarkable means proposed by has been agreed upon, is to consist lasted until the advent of keb Gedal- the print is obliterated, the binding verse and whose mercy is denied to Polish Jews to reach the lloly Land of free transportation to Palestine." ja, son of Reb Jehuda. Reb Gedalja into their library and paraded with it damaged—the volume is like the worn none of Adam's offspring. before their guests: "This is the as soon as possible and aid in the To handle the administration of this All river fish flock to the same was rabbi of a little town • • • it 'Gemara" inherited from our parents!" establishment of the Jewish National flag of weary warriors come home i vast army of workmen, Dr. Herman ocean, all rivers flow to the sea. • 1 " is told that the book was redeemed in after a long campaign. But a ghostly voice seems to pene- lloineland. proposes that it be organized and di- Reb Jechiel Meir bought it once in Reb Jehuda had wisdom and light, the manner following : The plan, now tinder consideration rected by the Zionist Organization, trate from the library shelves—the One day, after Reb Jehuda had the long-ago as part of a complete he loves God, he felt himself a part left his home and taken flight to voice of a volume printed in Amster- by the French and Polish Nlinistries which should assume full responsibil- edition of the Talmud, for 25 ducats. of God; he loved all men for all are dam ages ago—a voice imploring of Commerce and Labor, was pro- Reb Jechiel Meir, a citizen of no parts of the Divinity. Reb Jehuda Kotzk, his father-in-law chided his some one to earn a mitzvah by call- posed by two Galician Jewish leaders, ity and make the necessary agree- daughter because she had given him ments with the French government. mean estate in his community, began thought scorn of those who study money, as he thought, for the jour- ing in a shamans to carry the vol- Dr. Alexander Hausman and Dr. Her- "Le People Juif" points out that anew the study of the Talmud every the Thorah only in fear of punish- ume to the graveyard and there to man, both journalists of Lemberg, destitute because of economic boy- ney. Thereupon the young matron seventh year; he read a page a year, meet. lie could not conceive how a took her infant son, Gedalja, to her bury it with other desecrated holies, and has been enthusiastically ap- cott, pogroms and the persent condi- beginning with "Berachoth" and man, image and part of Him who proved by over 100,0(10 Polish Jews, tion of Poland and that they are arms and took the road to follow out of the reach of the godless. winding up with "Nida." loves all the world, should love his according to a report received by the her husband to Kotzk. She returned practically all city people with no That was in the olden times, in the Creator only in fear and trembling, Zionist Organization of America, from from her visit, crestfallen and chilled, knowledge of the practical problems long, long ago, before the coming of instead of rejoicing in the mystical "Le People init." official .newspaper but the son, upon growing to man's of reconstruction to be faced in the Rabbi of Kotzk, that great lumin- union that exists between God and of the French Zionists, published in estate, took the same road—he restoring Palestine. ary enlightening the horizon of Isreal, man. Paris. turned chassid as his father—whom These 10(1,01)0 Jews who have volun- that fertilizing cluster of sun-rays, Why, he thought, (lo men count Ile lost in his childhood—before him. These Polish Jews, according to teered for labor service in France, who ennobled and redeemed the over the tale of their good deeds in In the course of his wanderings, he New York—American doctors arc the report, having no means with comprise but one-fifth of the total hearts and souls of his generation. anxious apprehension? They inquire once came to a village inn. Ile centering their warfare on disease in which to secure transportation to number of Jews ready to leave at In his days, the scholars tell us, the into the laws of God that their in- Palestine and lacking the practical asked the innkeeper, a Jew: is there Palestine in the schools. any time for Palestine, according to teaching of the Torah was in its ele- quiry may be accounted them for a holy book in the house? They A report just received on the activi- training essential to the efficient re- the Zionist Organization, which has mentary stages. It seemed to the merit, like merchants who think in brought him an old "Gemarah." On ties of the American Zionist Medi- building of the Holy Land, agree to a report from Dr. Jerzy Rosenblatt, pious that man's chief end on earth terms of money: "Thus we did, and the fly-leaf he found, to his delighted cal Unit states that its doctors made spend a minimum of one year, aiding member of the Polish Diet and now in consisted in the learning itself, in the such and such things ar now our amazement, an inscription in his 25,151 visits to the Palestinian schools in the restoration of Northern France, New York conferring with Zionist letter without the spirit that makes (hie !, Not so—God's will must gov- father's hand. \Viten he asked the in .December. Educational work in if at the end of their term of service, leaders, that 500,000 Jews will emi- it live and thrive. They counted ern men, the Lord's co-workers. It innkeeper how he came by the hook, disease prevention comprises a major the French government will give them grate to the Holy Land as soon as words hike currency • • • a guardian is not for men to measure and en- he was told that a wandering chas- part of the unit's program, according transportation to Palestine. the British mandate is established angel was to rise out of every word, compass the Lord's reward in antici- sid had sold the volume years ago "In the Jewish centers of Poland, to the report. and Palestine made the Jewish Na- but words remained lifeless at their pation. for two florins. Reb Gedalja paid 11'hile the inhabitants were wary many thousands of signatures have al- tional Ilomeland. hands. • • • As for Reb Jehuda, he scorned all the two florins and redeemed the of hospitals and clinics when first leady secured to a memorial, urging They did not betake themselves to thought of reward—he meant to meet paternal treasure. established in the Holy Land, they the French and Polish governments The Oliab Rachel Synagog in study front an inner prompting—their his God, not as a flattering sycophant This "Treatise Berachoth" was to now consider the medical unit their to adopt this plan of fulfilling the aim was the promised reward. They and shave, but with dutiful affection, Reb Gedalja henceforth a daily study greatest blessing, the report declares. hopes of these ardent Jews and at the Shanghai, China, is nearing comple- tion and will be ready for dedication studied, at the Lord's behest, to se- like a son. and a fountain of delight. In delv- Jerusalem clinic of the unit handled same time assisting France in her during the Passover holidays. The cure their share in the world-to-come. Ile journeyed to Kotzk and stayed ing into its sacred contents day by 9,806 cases alone during December. problem of reconstructing the north- Their doctrine resembled frozen there for years at a time. Ile (lid day, he became, as the tradition goes, the majority of them being eye, skin ern part of France," the report reads. synagog will seat 420. The funds water rather than fluid oil. In those not study Torah there. The students "a partaker of the sixtieth part of the and children's diseases. "There is every chance that it will were provided by the late Jacob A. days the "Treatise Berachoth" was were making an inroad upon the To- Kotzker Rabbi's holiness." be favorably acted upon by both gov- Sassoon, of Bombay, and was estab- lished in 1876 by a handful of wor- only a small part of the Talmud, a rah from the outside, but be felt ernments." On the wedding day of his son branch, belike, of a tree and nour- himself a part of the Law, of its fire David he presented to hint the "Trea- Dr. Hausman explains his plan as shipers. I'rofessor L. Bogen, of Berlin, has ished by that tree. Cut the branch and flame and divine sanctity. informed Chief Rabbi Ilertz, at Lon- follows: "France, with I er present tise Berachoth." Sir Walter de Frece, the wealthy and the leaves will wither and fall Once every three years he came David was a youth of parts, an don, that the sum collected by the acute shortage of labor, reds several to earth. home to wife and child—for it is eminent Talmudist, but a sceptic at latter for Dr. Theodor's NI idrash is hundred thousand laborers for the re- music hall owner, has been success- ful in his campaign for Member of In its 0%11 good time, the prestige known that to depart front the earth- heart. Ile quarreled with the book, emit, ing the committee to complete building of its ruined provhces. •The the husband of of the treatise rose to hitherto un- ly "Abode of God" is more painful now he devoured it and again he neg- the I ublication of that great work of destitute Jews of Polai ( , eager to Parliament. Ile is than the separation of body and soul. lected it, like an inconstant lover. scho arship, which was begun some reach Palestine, need transpor atiot Vesta Tilley, the famous imperson- known heigths. u facilities to the coast and above all ator. l'resently it attained to the highest His family, at first, (lid not put any l'oward his life's end he read it daily, levee y years ago. authority. And now it resembled a obstacles in his way—they of him tree rather than a mere branch, deep- go hack to Kotzk wnene -ver he rooted, shade-giving and branching pleased. His father-in-law, thought a cast-iron misnagid himself, es-en pro- •• out on its own account. It happened in those days, when vided him smith traveling money. But .......... ....... ................... ............. . 11- "His Name," to wit, the name of the the time came when his wife and her ................. Kotzker Rabbi, became known to all family began to object, They over- the world, when "the children in their whelmed him with bitter reproaches, cradles" knew His Holy Abode" and denied him money for the return the place "where dwells God's Ma- journey, filially they hid from him the necessary traveling clothes and jesty on Earth." Reb Jechiel Meir made a wedding his linen, so as to keep him safe at gife to his son-in-law, Reb Jehuda, home. ... But people like Reli Jehuda are not of the entire edition of the Talmud. Reb Jehuda disliked theological dis- to be swayed front their purpose by 11111 111 pute. He was like a little fish in deep such triffes. Kotzk was the true home waters, preferring to swim with the of God's Majesty on Earth, illumin- ing thence the whole earth—and he— other fish of his own kind. He strove ..... 1,11 after unity and friendship, for when was he to stay at home? What's to be done? lie took the men unite all chains but those of God fall from their limbs, the majesty of volume "Berachoth" from the set he God embraces them, and they pray in had received as a wedding gift, and unison. In such a union heaven and went on his road. Ile sold the vol- earth are accessible to everyone, hu- ume to a village innkeeper and trav- man wishes are fulfilled, the soul re- eled on to Kotzk. That was the same "Treatise Bera- joices, the body thrives, both comple- ment each other and rejoice in God choth" whereof this tale runs. The book was held in great honor and • • • and then it becomes man's S IM I .. M11111 will that there be no difference be- looked upon as an independent whole. " 811611111. IMMO tween the exalted and the hourly • • By its help, Reb Jehuda, a stray 88orr" .. . .. • Man, in this state, begins to under- sheep, found hack his way to the flock —11 s 881 (*. III III stand the grandeur of the words of of Kotzk. 8811 .... 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