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`How Good and How Pleasing"
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By RABBI HENRY J. BERKOWITZ
There were once two brothers
named Cain and Abel. Cain was
jealous of Abel and therefore slew
his brother. That was the first case
of fratricide of which we have any
record and since that time, the world
has been exceedingly anxious to find
out "how good and how pleasing" it
would be if brethren could dwell to-
gether in unity.
In the editorial column of one of the
many American-Jewish weeklies, we
found recently a pleasant little tid-
bit in which our brother the Editor
stepped out of a dark corner and
clubbed Reform Judaism on the head
until he could stand over its prostrat-
ed and quivering body and pronounce
it "effete and moribund," by which he
merit "quite dead." This was not un-
usual for our brother, the Editor of
this particular paper, but our attent-
ion was called to a large headline in
the next column which read: "The
Campaign Against Predjudice." Thus
there stood in parallel columns an at-
tack upon the Reform wing of Juda-
ism, and an arrangement of those
who are trying to arouse prejudice
against our people as a whole.
It is the saddest spectacle of all our
sad history, that we, so few in num-
ber, are to intolerant of one another.
There may be sweeping, world em-
bracing messages for the year that is
opening—there may be problems to
face which are to rock the destinies
of men and nations; but in the midst
of this welter of events there arises
surely, one clear note of warning
which is summed up in the rather
quizzical statement "Ilow good and
how pleasing it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity."
In applying this text we need not
go far afield in order to find its
meaning. We are weary of controv-
ersy on international questions of
Jewish concern. We are surfeited
with the squabbles of contending fac-
tions in Jewish world events, but we
are rather prone to trip the light
fantastic over the thin ice upon which
we ourselves skate—shutting our ears
to its ominous crackling. The clarion
call of warning, strikes loud and long
as the shofar blash falls upon the ears
of a community in which brethren will
not heed the ancient maxim.
We enjoy the humorous spectacle
of the yokel who visits an art gal-
lery and presses his nose against the
canvas of an Old Master in order to
see the picture. In our superiority
we know the terms light, color and
perspective so we stand far away and
behold the painting in its true pro-
portions. But the conditions are re-
versed when we stand in the midst of
the gallery of our own emotions and
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on some useless will o' the wisp
which signifies nothing. We fail to
decry the blurs and blots, the defects
and imperfections which rest upon our
own canvas.
The Jewish community is its own
worst enemy in the matter of intol-
erance, and the constant warring of
brother against brother. Pride in
sense of caste top-loftiness because of
a lack of the ability to measure the
true meaning of wealth; smug securi-
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ty because of the sensuous comforts
of a world made easy, these are the
things which turn us into a pack of
carping back-biters, and petty squab-
blers. It is very sad to hear men who
are engaged in a common cause and
working for a common end, speak of
a co-worker as though he were his
worst enemy. It is very distressing
to listen to the exposition of the other
fellow's faults from the lips of one
who cannot see his own. All the vis-
ion, all the idealism and all the im-
petus for advancement are forgotten
in the struggle for self aggrandise-
ment. Brotherhood is a mere word,
fellowship is a lost art, and Self is
enthroned as the monarch in this
world of individualists.
If the Prophet came today and ask-
ed "Have we nut all one Father, bath
not one Cod created us all?" we
would have to answer him "No," for
if we had the one Father we would
of necessity be brothers, and if one
God created us, we would not crown
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Verdicts, but would concede that per-
haps the Almighty and His moral
law had some slight basis of truth.
In a word the close and intimate
message for us, right in our own little
corner of the world is one of toler-
ance. To think that we should have
to go back to Cain and Abel to pick
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a lesson for this latest of years! But
the simple truths are always the most
potent, so why not take the most sim-
ple of all. The old world worries
along somehow as the years roll
around. Striving clerics urge their
pleadings upon the people as they
march by with an occasional side-
long glance at the places where re-
ligion contracts its business, and
ever and anon the ancient plea for
brotherhood falls upon the ear that
has heard so often that it has become
like the whirr of an annoying dynamo
in a near-by factory.
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But is it all despair?
Are we
hardened pessimists? The greatest
heresy of all is to find dry rot at the
heart of everything, and that far we
cannot go. Bickering ceases, the
querelous voice of the gossiping hag,
Intolerance, falls away to silence
when we come to the great Ilolyday
season of the year and for once
whether we will it or not, the sway
of a religious psychology that is be-
yond our power of resistance, comes
forward and grips us. For those
moments we are brethren in the com-
mon cause of worship under the anci-
ent and beloved Faith. The mark of
Cain, gathered thru a year of slaying
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desires, our plans and our ambitions.
Like the poor unschooled yokel we
put the community up on close to our
eyes that we cannot see the picture,
or find any meaning in it. Those
who stand away and see the things
in their true light are the prophets
and sages of these times. The rest of brothers, fades from the forehead, and
us are all the common herd who stare a divine light shines there if we have
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fixedly ahead and think we discern souls at all, as did the light of God
the truth when alas our eyes are glued on the brow of Moses.
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