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MICHIGAN'S JEWISH HOME PUBLICATION

VOL. XIV. No. 15.

Section Two

DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923

TWO SKETCHES

The only sound audible was the quiet
The doctor's hand was laid confides;
wailing of the nine brothers who
tinily on the other's shoulder. "I had
mourned throne that escaped.
forgotten that I was a Jew. Tonight
By YEHOASH
1 1 remembered."
COMRADES
"Tonight?" queried the other, was
there wistfulness in the tone?
Translated by Sarah Potter.
In the morning, when the sun is
"Tonight is Rosh Ila-Shanah. I
only half way on his journey to the
have been to a little synagogue, a
venter of the sky, and the mountains
FOR THE GLORY OF GOD
schul, downtown. For years 1 did
are wrapped in a blue, cool mist, the
not know, nor care. This year a lit-
naiads foregather on the veranda of
tle red-haired boy remembered me
A bloody hand stretched forth and the sanitarium and baths thtir (MR, i
one of our people—yours and plucked out the eleven bright stars ated limbs in the warm, invigorating
(Hadassalx)
mine, Janeway! You could change that pointed the way to calm faith,
By ISBELLA R. HESS
your name, but not your blood, you an unshakable trust in the Cod of sunl They
ight. form little groups in various
"Arid on Rosh Ila-Shanah the Lord she would go to school. No, her
the boy over a year now, coming as know! The boy is a clean-cut young- Abraham, and to self-sacrifice for his corners, and their talk is interrupted of Life sits by the great hook and throat was not sore. But she didn't
The office of Dr. Louis Morris, the
ster, and clear-headed. I'm going to Torah.
every now and then by a cough. The tells the Recording Angel the names want any breakfast. She had to be
town's best known eye specialist, was he did once a week with his aunt to keep my eye-on him and give him a
Their example made it possible for problems of life re-echo feebly in this to write down; the good are written at school very early—she had to
crowded, and 12-year-old Leser Feld- the clinic. There was no one else to lift later on. Meanwhile, its Rosh
as
father
to
offer
up
his
daughter
as
vale of death. Comrades of the Sala(' down for life, the bad for death, and study. Her mother shook her head
a
go
with
her.
Ile
remembered
with
stein, weary with his tramp uptown,
Ila-Shanah! Shake hands, Janeway!
Rosie ran out the store door, her
slipped into an unobtrusive little amusement the child's many ques- Le shanah tobah tikkatib!" The doc- sacrifice with a smile on his face; and views meet here, opinions are ex. those who are neither very good nor books under her arm, an hour bef
ore
Own, with his throat cut, to gasp his I pressed, various questions are die- very bad have until Yom Kippur to
chair in the corner and resignedly tions. Once he had asked Leser why tor's voice rang cheerily.
, last"Hear, oh God of Israel." With cussed, and occasionally an eye
for the book is kept open un- school could possibl yopen.
took up n magazine from the stand he wanted so much to keep at school
The man looked at Dr. Morris as their names on their lips thousands spa skies up—a relic of the days of repent,
But
it
was
to
Rebbe
Levy's
house
til
then."
So
spoke
grandfather,
his
close by. Mentally he placed each of and he smiled at the remembrance of if he saw him for the first time. Then
white beard tossed by the light Sep- that Rosie went, rushing up the nar-
the persons waiting into his proper the answer. "Cause I want to know! he said slowly: "I'm sorry I did not submitted to death rather than dese- , health.
, The only one who is deserted is the tember breeze, his dim, gray, sunken row stairs, bursting breathlessly into
social stratum. The fat man in the I want to go to school till I learn know; I would have gone with you." crate their God.
They were imprisoned in dark dun- "granddaddy," who its in a corner eyes fixed for away on the stars just the little kitchen where Rebbe and
corner was undoubtedly very rich; everything in the whole world!" Ile
"Tomorrow, then!" The doctor
Rebbetzin were having their morning
his shoes were very shiny, certainly remembered, too, that his aunt had was surprised at his own brisk laugh. goon, their hands and feet locked in turning the pages of a Jewish news- coming out overhead.
The evening life of the small city coffee.
he hadn't tramped along the wet mourned that the boy must lose so "Tomorrow morning—let me see— heavy chains, and through the thick , Paper, or perusing a small-sized book
1 .
•
I •
"Rebbe Levy, oh, Rebbe Levy!"
flowed past them, as they sat before
pavement! The young girl next him much time at school—the teacher some one else must take the clinic to- walls they could hear the thumping 0
He feels out of place among these
the little shoemaker's shop on the She threw herself upon him and burst
was probably a shop girl; she wore had said he was the brightest boy she morrow morning so you can go with sound of wood being chopped for the
auto da fe which was to consume young victims. Everyone feels that
into deep, wracking sobs.
main
street
of
the
small
city.
Grand-
such a very plain suit and no jewelry had, the head of his class. What a me. And then you most come with
he does not belong here; and when
"What is it?" Ile stated to his
father was very old. "Most a mil-
at all! The young man next was pity the boy couldn't have the proper sic for .dinner at a patient's house— them,
walks past him, the old man
None of them shed a tear, none ut-
lion!" explained 7-year-old Max when feet "Rosele, what is it? Who is
very likely a clerk; his tie and socks chance! In a few years he, too, we shall have challah, and noodles, ,
tests' a plaint. They were all seated has a feeling as if the passerby said the question of grandfather's age sick? Tell me, what do you want?"
and handkerchief protruding from a would be pressing pants! and the and God knows what else.
' to him: "You should have gone to a
"Tomorrow, then," and the other ; in a circle on the floor--the old goon home for the aged. You have lived came into discussion among the chil-
pocket matched; perhaps he got as eager flash would be deadened in his
Word by word, in between choking
•
•
high as 825 a week. He surveyed
sobs, Rosie asked her questions.
'•
•
t
laughed happily; "we shall start the
long enough and ought to die of old dren on the street.
'
year
aright—it
is
Rosh
Ila-Shanah."
hint
his
tun
sons,
all
reciting
the
Holy
them all calmly and decided that not
The office was empty now, and the
Then Rosie, no much older at 12, "Tebbe Levy, in your books you can
for those
Word. From a dark corner two tiny , age. This is a place only
one of them belonged in his class, nurse had gone. It was time to go '''It is Rush Ila-Shanah!" echoed the eyes
sparkled at them for a moment who die or suffer the agonies of death would chide Max and carefully ex- find out everything. The Rebbetzin
two years in America, and dependent to his club for an hour's chat before doctor, watching a bit of cloud drift and disappeared again. A huge spider prematurely. The sanitarium is for plain that he was really only 76, but said so! Dear Rebbe Levy, look it
d. up—what does it say? Will I be
home
rolu
upon an aunt and uncle whose hearts dinner. What had the boy said about across the stars overhead, "and front
ein o c o
old sho
i n? him
e
edteed
that
us--the young.'
Jew. Whatever hung suspended in its weh and list-
had reached out across the ocean and fish cooked with noodles? Why, his toni ght
written down for death? When the
am a
Anti the old Mall craves more than the t ern h
gathered him in when he had been mother had cooked that, too. Per- else I may
Angel writes in the book, will I be
But
together
they
would
sit
with
him
ever for his youth. lied he come here
may I have been, I am a Jew "' le' " ' p • g•
left parentless and penniless there. haps on Rosh Ha-Shansth eve. Ah, now,"
The day came to an Old and night to die as a young man, he would have by the hour, listening to his tales o f written down so? Honest, Rebbe
Upon due consideration further he he remembered the candles and the
life in Eastern Europe, of Talmud Levy, I didn't mean to do it! I
"It is better so," said the other. took its place. They could not see been admitted into the circle.
decided he was out of place in this napkin-covered loaf, and the hands "When one is a Jew one is a Jew. It each other any more,
didn't know! Won't God understand?
but old
man
the
T h Only when the "baby" conies to lore and Old World folk tales.
luxurious waiting room; he could see of his father outstretched in blessing, is better so."
still continued t o d iscuss'
ore him, a smile appears on his face,
But now RoSie sat downcast, her I said all the prayers I know and I
the tracks of his wet shoes upon the and bah, was he•getting sentimental?
am afraid, Rebbe Levy! If I am writ•
"It is better so " Dr. Morris nod. with his sons. And when one of them , She is the youngest patient—hardl y
polished floor and he noticed sudden- He would go to the club.
clod thoughtful) y. "I am another , displayed a deeper understanding of . five years old—and she looks in vain that slipped into grandfather's was ten down for death, who will take
discussion,
his
for
someone
to
play
with.
She
moves
eyes
wide
and
frightened.
The
hand
ly how very threadbare his outgrown
some
question
under
Maxie across the car tracks when he
1
to
Why had the boy called to mind man tonight, iii
J every. To you,
cold and trembling.
goes to school? And I have to help
suit was. But then he didn't believe the old memories he had thought us all, to our pe
from one group to another and her
e and all the world face brightened up with pleasure.
"Grandfather," she whispered, "is
a single one of those people was sup- buried forever! Why, even at the beyond. Le sha ah tobah?"
On the morrow the church bells will large blue eyes look up from her every one who did a sin written down my mother all the time, 'cause she
porting a family on his Uncle Levi's club, over his coffee, and later at the
ain't strong! Tell Him not to put
ring out, calling the Christians to, shrivelled face to the adults, while her
me down so, Rebbe Levy! Maybe
meager wages as presser in a tailor's theater, there came back pictures and
witness the great, joyful event—the tiny ears listen attentively to words for death?"
Grandfather shook his head judi- He'll believe you that I didn't do it
shop! He knew what it meant.
auto da fe of eleven "unfortunate" she does not understand. She looks
voices that had gone out of his life
ciously.
"Who
can
say—God
is
the
on purpose!"
, souls. And for the "unfortunates" I like a little goat gone astray.
He might have reflected still more years ago. And perhaps because of
the event was even greater and morel Someone occasionally pets her on Judge—Ile sees righteously. If one
The old man held her close and
deeply but that the nurse touched their memories, or the veil of time
truly
repents,
and
tries
to
make
good
waited for the agonized sobbing to
By RABBI EMANUEL J. JACK , joyful; it was the joy of weary wan. ; the head. They would gladly buy her
him gently on the shoulder and said that was over them, they brought to
what he has done, ho is given a die away. "Rosele," he murmured,
deters who expect to arrive to their candy, but it is strictly forbidden.
that the doctor would see him. And him a sense of poignant sweetness.
When she comes over to the old man chance "
destination at last.
"little Rosele! Who has frightened
when he got in Dr. Morris' tired face
He tried during the week to forget
(In B'nai B'rith News.)
"To make good? What do you little Rosele? What child of Israel
A few hours before dawn they fell he takes her in his arms and she cud-
seemed to light up.
it all—he even tried to believe that
silent one by one. The condemned— dies up against his long, white beard. mean?" she quavered anxiously.
talks like this? Stop crying, Roselel"
"Hello, Lester!" Ile clapped his he entirely disapproved of Leser and
I ant born wonderfully rich.
"If one steals, all must be given
She often sits down on the floor of
the old, gray Reb Asher and his ten
Slowly the crying stopped, and
hand upon the boy's thin shoulder all that he stood for. But somehow,
I" He stroked her brown curls with wet, frightened eyes she looked
I number among my renowned an- sons—fell asleep with the words of the veranda, her little chin leaning on
"My, red hair looks cheerful this even when he was busiest, he heard
his knees, and looks straight into his tenderly. "If one has grieved an- up at him. "It's awful to do a sin,
dark afternoon! What is it? Your the boy's shrill voice, "My uncle says eestors Arbraham, the father of the Torah on their lips.
other, he must ask forgiveness. Each Rebbe Levy! I know it. But I didn't
he couldn't stand it all if he didn't Monotheism; Moses, the divinely in-' A hoarse squeak was heard and the eyes. When she does that the old back
aunt's eye drops gone?"
man begins to tell her stories, and she one knows his own sin."
mean to. And now it's soon Rosh
"Yes, and you said to come up for go to schul and pray." As a boy he spired law-giver and the world's first heavy iron door turned on its rusty
,, But sonic things, grandfather, Ha-Shanah—and the Book will be
more to your office again when she had gone, too. lie could remember champion of liberty and advocate of hinges. A chill wind forced itself in listens unit she falls asleep. Then the
you can't make good! They didn't open—and—" The sobs threatened
needed 'em, but she wouldn't let me the cold winter mornings when he human. rights; the sublime prophets, and was followed by a tall man with nurse conies and takes her away.
She goes to him more willingly than hurt any one else. What do you do to begin again. Then Rebbe Levy
bother you here, s h e said, only you had obeyed the summons and run all Peerless preachers and teachers of hoary locks, dressed in a white satin
ti' any•ine else, and so they became then?" There were tears in her spoke, tenderly, but sternly.
won't be at the clinic until Saturday, the way to the little village sync- righteousness, justice and peace; gown and a gold-embroidered head-
known as the "grand-daddy and the voice. The old man put his arm
and
there
intoned
the
prayers
Jesus,
deified
and
worshipped
by
mil-
dress.
His
foot
steps
were
so
quiet
and I couldn't come then, you know. gogue,
"Rosele, whom did you kill?"
Ithat not a sound was heard. Ile bent grand-child."
.
around her.
So I came here." It was very plain with the rest. Well, he certainly lions in all parts of the globe.
at
She looked up hastily. "Oh, Rebbe
She, too, does not belong here.
, over the old man and gently aroused
"Are y ou a 'yeshiba h bochur ' th
I am spiritua l h eir to a past sur- . oe
to Leser.
wasn't happier, here and now, than
ser.
e
v
?
What
at
have
Levy,
I didn't kill anyone!"
' him from his slumber: "Tomorrow
Their attachment grows stronger Y
io
ns
y ou ask such ue
qst
passe d b
The doctor nodded. "Sure, I see then and there!
I you shall • monolate yourselves. So it front day to day. When the old man you to do with sin? Would my soul
"Nu, how much money did you
you've come. And I am glad
I am of the chosen people who pre- i - was °Maims' from above. But one sits down in his corner, he waits im-
It was almost sundown when Dr.
ssl
Let
sinners
worry.
steal?" Ile smoothed the wet curls
be- was as , spotle
you did, for we can't have your Morris left his office the next Friday; sented unto mankind its greatest1 , you shall escape. Before the break p ay
tientl for the little one—his only
ll he written down for from her forehead.
l,,
ou
y . will
aunt's eyes going backward again, perhaps it was a sudden whim to or- spiritual treasure, the Bible, and who, of
of dawn he shall be beyond th e eon- co mpa ni on.
•
t
where
would
an
old
man
life!
Run
away
now—and
play!
It
"I, Rebbe Levy! Steal?" There
can we? But, sonny, why couldn't der his chauffeur to drive him far through the ages, despite persecution fines of the dungeon and h is feet
his not k not well for little people to think
day
te a searched
among
One upon
d
stray toy?
Ile has
was horror in her tones.
you come on Saturday? Is it to be a downtown. And then he dismissed and prejudice, persisted and parse- sha
find ston e toy for 87d-
shall carry hint to s afety, that he may longings,
ee:
"Nu, you didn't murder, and you
vexed and preserved the holy writings live and serve G od. Choose, there- her. Bu trying to
funeral or a wedding?" him
stole away, but not
Quietly
didn't steal! Tell me, Rosele, what
'
for this and unborn generations.
If it was a joke, Leser refused to
little upper
e
by th e httl
fore, from among you hint who is to Corn('
Sh sa t b
He might have slipped unnoticed
to play. y She
see it. "Why, we couldn't ever go
c„pe."
the did you do?" The Rebbetzin leaned
I
pray
to
the
same
God
to
whom
d
how
one
by
one
even
a
smooth
button
to
give
her.
escape."
II'
c
window,
watching
.
on Saturday. anyway, 'cause it's in amongst the men on the anoint floor
forward to listen, clicking her lips
The old Reb Asher awoke with a was happy to find two empty pill- stars came out — how quic kl
y the
Shabliat; and this Shabhat is Rosh of the little schul if Leser had been my co-religionist, King David, dedi-
shriek. The damp cell was shrouded boxes in his trunk, and he presented moon held her place among them— and tnogue pityingly.
Ile-Shanah,too. Did you forget?" praying as attentively as he should; cated his inspiring psalms.
Slowly, Rosie deed her eyes, then
how still the air was. True, children
I maintain the same truths that his in darkness and, groping in the dark, them to his little friend.
"Perhaps—perhaps I did!" The but he chanced to look around when
She played with the boxes a whole were paying on the street, and then let them fall. "L-JI—ate—trefal"
son. Solomon, voiced in his instruc- he struck the tightly shut door. There
man rose to his feet and looked down Dr. Morris came in, and then he had tine proverbs, was not a trace of the white visitor. week at his feet. Later he obtained came a rumble of the early evening
"Trefa? Nu, you ate trete! Are
into the dark eyes thoughtfully. "So to nudge his uncle, and then nothing
The shriek of the old man startled somewhere a few medicine bottles and traffic—but she was not a part of you the only one? And how did you
it's Rosh lia-Shanah again!" would do but that he must come and
I believe that I ant possessed of a
little girl was overjoyed with the the little world below—she was a come to eat trefa?" Was there a bit
"Yes." Leser tried not to show sit beside them. At the reading desk blood, richer and mires, because of -; his sons. On the face of one of them the
WOO still visible the bright reflection new presents.
sinner, and on Rosh Ila-Shanah she of a smile in his faded old eyes?
his disapproval, but it crept into his a clear-voiced cantor was intoning my lineal kinship with such and aim! of a great heavenly .vision he hind had
The bottles had labels pasted onto was to be writen dawn for death!
"A girl in school gave me a sand-
voiCe. "My uncle says a man ain't a prayers; unconsciously the man's lar serious-souled beings whose ori- in his sleep. In his dream he saw them, and one of them was marked
The tears came and she sobbed wich." The words came huskily.
and religious poems are chanted
real Jew if he don't remember it. mind caught the air and completed sons
and caroled not only in every syna- seated the holy martyrs, with Bolen- "poison" with red letters. The little softly. Who would dry her mother's "And she said Jennie Leibowitz gave
You see—but you're a real Jew, the strain before the cantor had fin-
did crowns on their heads, learning one was particularly hilarious over dishes—and mother wasn't strong!
Rogue but in all places of prayer, be
it to her—that it was veal. And af-
aren't you? My aunt, she said you've fished. And when the shema was said,
the Torah from the mouth of Jehovah these red letters .and her old friend Who would take Max to school, Max,
they churches, cathedrals, temples or
terwards she told me—that it was
got a real Jewish heart. She says it he was amazed to hear his own voice
him s elf
smiled sadly.
•who was careless on the car tracks? pork—and she laughed! And no ono
mosques.
ain't many doctor would do what you swell with the others into the re-
On lifting her to his lap, the old Who would do her father's errands
"Father, what has happened to
knows—nut my mother neither. And
done. She says—" sponse. At the first word "Boruch,"
I am the offspring of a stock that you?" all his ten sons asked with man found that she was getting thin-
in the little shop? Surely he could grandfather said how some are writ-
But the doctor laughed shortly and the rest had come to him. It was a has unceasnigly waged war against startled voices. And the old man's ner and lighter every day, until she not afford to pay a boy
ten down for life—and some for
quivering voice rang forth in the dark- was as light as a feather.
silenced him. "Nothing Jewish about quarter century since he had heard the forces of darkness.
"Rosie!" came a call from below.
Then a day came when she did not "Go now with them things to Rebbe death—and—"
anything I did, just decent. You see the words, longer since he had said
I am of that unique religious group ness: "One of us shall escape. It is
I'm so busy being a doctor I can't them. He felt the boy's warm little that holds it a duty to ally itself with the will of God. And therefore choose come out on the veranda._ She
"Roselel" The old man took her
was Lev —only just now came the her-
take time to bother being anything hand slip into his—he held it close. every forward movement. him front among you."
carried out on II little be, an d upon ing he wants Like a good girl, got" hot little hands in his. "When one
else." Not for years had he felt such a glow
does
not do a wrong purposely, it is
"You,
the
cwn
of
us
all,
should
her
request,
it
was
placed
mar
crown
I am of that race w !licit deems it
Like a g
"But aren't you going to schul?" of real feeling—the boy knew him
no sin! The sin belongs to the one
a privilege to array itself with the save yourself, and we will die," the "grand-daddy.' The old truth took her ing
come
for one of his own blood!
who
fooled
you! And does the Holy
inquired the boy anxiously. "You
powers of light, and to occupy the
It seemed only a short time before most dangerous and exposed positions
One, blessed be Ile, write down the
know on Rush lla-Shanah God opens
Levy only lived around the
names
of
the
children, who know not
ing
o
f
moan
her
the
story
about
the
Rebbe
the chains time told
there.
his big book and writes down if you the service was over—Leser said it in the everlasting struggles for truth clanking and
Rabbi, his wife and their seven little But
corner,
and she
she did
loved
to go to meet what they do? Nay. Be comforted,
could be heard. Then he told them:
are to live or not, and if you're any- had been very long. , Be liked the and progress.
tonight
not want
you
have
no
sin!"
"All my life I availed myself of children.
one good you're written down to live, friendly crowd about hint, and the
I am a practical protestant, con-
Her toys lay littered on the little his keen old eyes—h: was wise—
She throw her head back and closed
and I want you to live because you're loud "Le shanah tobah!" that filled stantly protesting against wrong or every chance I had to s e rve God.
were the pill boxes, the perhaps he would see through her her eyes. A sigh that seemed to
the only one knows how to cure my the air. Laser's uncle took his hand the least infringement of one's rights, From the moment I said my morning quilt—there
bottles, and, most prominently, the soul! How would he feel when he come from within her heart came
aunt's eyes. And anyway, you feel a and said it to hint joyfully, while the regardless of religion, rank or race, prayers until I committed myself to bottle
with the "poison" label. knew the sin tht•re! Ile always kissed sobbingly forth. "Rebbe Levy," she
sele"
lot better when you go to schul. My boy whispered: "It means that he heedless of creed, class or color; God in my bed at night I WAS ready,
For a few weeks she was carried her forehead and called her "Rowhen cried, "oh, Rebbe Levy!" And now
uncle says he couldn't stand it all, wishes you'll be written down for life. nevertheless I am not an adherent of with every organ of my body and ev-
out
every
day and the old man never —he would noer do that again
she cried naturally, gratefully, her
ery thought in illy mind, to serve the
living on his wages and bringing up So do I!" And the grave doctor Christian Protestantism.
left her for a minute. When the child he knew!
me and his boys and girls, if he didn't could just squeeze the slender fingers
Rebbe was not at home—so head on the old man's shoulder "You
I ant a cons'stent Catholic, seeking Lord
of
all
Creation.
And
now,when
am old and weak, and have only a fell asleep, he whispered his psalms, the
in answer.
udied are sure, Rebbe Levy?" she whis-
go to schul and pray."
he Rebbetzin said. Ile hadd st nd so pered.
y lft
e to me which I with his eyes resting on her, until a long
Then nothing must do but that he and striving for universal brother- handul of das
"And you will go with him?" The
that day and was tire a
hood and peace, working for the wel- can offer up as a sacrifice, you want large tear rolled into his beard.
"Am I sure? She asks mat Am I,
grave-faced doctor found himself lis• must go to the little tenement with
One morning the little bed was not had gone for a walk. Always at this or am I not, the Rebbe, Rosele?"
fare and well-being of all God's crea- me to remain alive!"
tening with interest to this young ex- them, where Laser's aunt wept ecstat- tures; nevertheless I am not an ad-
His children remained silent. No brought out any more, and the old came to him to ask questions about And he laughed. And the Rebbetzin
ically and declared that but for him
ponent of religion.
man broke into a hysterical wail. .. season of the year so many people grought in fresh coffee and hard lit-
"Sure, I'll go. Why, next year I'll she would be blind. And then he herent of Roman Catholicism. one tried to dissuade hint from his His only comrade died.—(The Day.) this and about that—to find out if
I am one of a minority with a won- resolution. And the old moo ontin-
one might eat a certain chicken, to tle rolls covered with poppy seeds,
he Bar Mitzvah! And, say, we'll must drink a glass of home-made
derful
past,
a
dutiful
present,
and
a
ued,
his
voice
aquiver
like
a
mother's
determine the degree of guilt one had and sweet butter. And Rosie found
have fish with thick gravy for supper, wine and eat a bit of cake covered
herself eating, and once she smiled,
,
praying over her dying child:
and noodles and a big twisted bread, with poppy seeds—it was years since promise-full future.
and the fitting penance—all manner
THE
NEW
YEAR
"Draw
lots
for
the
one
to
escape."
I am blessed beyond measure.
of things they asked. And often he rather tearfully, at the Rebbe's joke.
with that
poppy
for seeds
supper,
on too?"
it. Will
you he had eaten such cake, and a sud-
Then the Rebbetzin filled her pock-
For a long tmie there was not a
den mist in his eyes told that it
h ave
I am splendidly endowed with a
sound, but finally the eldest son gath- The New Year come! Its pathway lies had read hours in his big books in ets with little seed cakes, and Rosie
The man shook his head. "I've brought back a memory so sweet that precious heritage.
ered up courage and made answer: Hid by the most of days unknown; order
to says
answer.
and Rebbe Levy went back to Rosie's
"It
about
sins
in
his
big
never had it yet at the club. And it it hurt. Why—these- were his own
I am the proud possessor and trust- "Satan might interfere with a just Faith sees bright stars illume its skies,
house, although Rosie said she had to
sounds good!"
ed transmitter of priceless principles. decision by
Hope bide each heart arise, press books?" asked Rosie, wistfully.
go to school. But the Rebbe had his
y lot, and cause the wrong
"About sins?" the Rebbetzin echo-
up-
"Why don't you come down to our people!
No one in the fashionable club up-
I am to apply them continually one to escape."
on.
ed. "About everything. Is it not the way, and then he told the whole story
re
house, then?" The boy's tones were
n would have recognized the great
and to guard them most carefully.
The condemned sunk into deep si- The Old Year gone? The New Year law and the sayings of the rabbis— to mother and father and grandfath-
eager, sympathetic. "There'll be tow
Dr. Morris as he sat there in the tiny
I am called to an unlimited Six— lence and awaited the wise man's de-
er, and said some stern things about
come!
their names be blessed? Any ques-
enough, honest. and
Anyway,
I've
got my
a room, guest of one of his clinic pa-
I'll give
it to
Thus speed the years till pathways
(.edger, Steeg-598 W service unto cision.
Don he can answer. He is a Re e. little people who think too much.
quarter I saved
tients. Surely no one would have mankind.
Rosie wondered if she were being
The dull sound of a church-bell was
blend,
aunt and she'll buy a pound more
Till old and sea greet lustrous dawn Such a one as those who are known scolded, but mother cried, and grand-
I am sacredly bound by unnum- heard from afar.
And maybe you can go to schul with promised
known the
'good
cheer
as he
Of fadeless day, where time shall for a thousand miles in the old coun- father put his hands on her head and
to ready
dine with
them
tomorrow
"We
shall
choose
one,"
said
Reb
bered duties and obligations.
us!"
try!"
Dr. Monis ran his hand lightly at noon, to eat challah, and a bit of
said he knew she'd be the mother of
end.
I am more hindered than helped. Asher solemnly.
"Ile is out?" .3 sudden surge of Rebbes.
chicken, and shralet. Moved by a
—Rev. C. F. hicKown.
Ten hearts beat faster in the dark-
daring swept through Rosie's soul. "I
through the boy's short auburn curls
I am more suppressed than sup- ness and each one abandoned himself
Then the Rebbe said that the early
and shook his head. "You're a good sudden
as he went
he ported.
fin-
am sorry!"
reached impulse,
up and touched
with out,
his fin-
to silent prayer.
"Nu, come tomorrow." The fat frost had caused the trees to turn
day, p he said irre evantly. " 'Some
S
Leser,"
gers the memo on the doorpost.
DISRAELI SAYINGS
I am more envied than enabled.
"God of the Universe, do not desert
most beautifully down by the little
little Rebbetzin smiled down on her.
erhaps, I'll cl
ome. But not now,
At the corner he hesitated a mo-
me: do not disgrace me!"
creek that flowed by the town. And
I am more damned than deared.
not this year."
Disraeli was one of the most brit- "Always he says Rosie is a fine little he and grandfather and Max and
it to meat—should he telephone for his
"We shall choose one," repeated the
d k "
I am more loathed than loved.
(Or • See,
Ile fid
a turnedi
and
gave
lle who
littl e val
tient
non-moral
intellects
that
ever
old
man.
Rosie were going to take a walk there
to go. The doe- car, or just take a taxi? Then he
But
the
usually
tempting
seed
cake
•
•
But
I
am
in
the
service
of
the
God
the boy,
Joseph,' he inquired of the oldest, dominated the world.
and see—they'd just forget school
for suddenly noted the wet coat and saw in the clear dark sky the thin of my fathers.
Il e was not immoral. He simply 'was untested, and she gave it to Max, and go walking and eat seed cakes.
"have you fi ni shed writing your holy
drew forth a quarter. "Ride down, silver line of the moon and, moved
ho
ate
it
greedily.
What
was
the
I am the servant of humanity.
could not understand honest earnest— w
Bo, k 7"
And Rosie danced happily and said
Leser," he urged. But the boy turned by the beauty of the night, decided
ness and convictisn. "I have been matter with Rosie, anyway? Who she didn't mind now that Rosh Ha-
I am EVERY JEW.
"Yes, father."
away! "I can walk all right, I walked to walk. It was long since he had
"Zany," he continued, "have you asked to analyze what 'moral' means " 1 gives away a perfectly good seed Shanah %%-as coming —she wasn't
'
Then,
"If
maybe
you
want
to
noted
the
marvelous
number
of
stars;
up
ry
completed your commentary on the he once said; "first, enormous lying: cake?
All night long Rosie tossed about afraid. And with one hand In Rebbe
go to schul we go on Eighth street, the shimmering light of the moon.
EVENING TONES
Torah?"
second, , inexhaustible boasting; third,
her narrow little bed. Over and over Levy's and the other in grandfather's
near where we live—it's only a little "Back of it all, God!" he was saying
"Yes, father."
intense selfishness."
d all
II h p ray era she she went out to read God's handwrit•
one, but it's awful nice. And any- to himself dreamily. Why hadn't he
again she said
By YEHOASH
"Isaac, have you put on paper the
Other of his sayings were
ing in the autumn leaves.
way I'll pray that God'll write you
in he
thought
of it before?
But' ago—per-
he had,
Lying is a crime only where it is knew; she said the "Shema" on each
gems from the Talmud?"
gone.
remembered,
long, long
some
say
prayers on beads;
' finger, as
the
to Rosh
live." IIa-Shanah
And he was again! haps it was as long ago as the time
(Translated by Marie Syrkin.)
"Yes, father."
So book
it was
When I meet a man whose name she recited the Ten Commandments,
And thus he questioned them one
THE PROPHET
The doctor sat at his desk and looked when he had run at daybrea to say Now comes the quiet evening hour
by one, in the order of their ages, un- I have utterly forgotten, say, "And and when she could remember no
curiously at the calendar that stood his morning prayers at the little
til
he
came
to
the
youngest.
With
gold
and
amethyst,
ho - .cis the old complaint?" more, said softly over and over again,
By S. IMBER
)age schul.
"Forgive me! Forgive me! Don't
guard there. On it were many notes,
"Jacob, my child, have you finished
Na dogmas, no dreams.
As he passed his club, a friend When summer-day and summer-night
Translated by Mari. Syrkia.
telling
your work on the Pentateuch?"
In country houses their table-talk write me down for death!"
Wed, tremblingly close-kissed.
g of engagements at hospitals
When the gray light of dawn was
and clinics, of dinners and meetings, came out. "Ah, doctor, we missed
"Not yet, but. . ."
is stable-talk.
but nothing there noted holy day or you tonight. Had a case?" was the The valley grows more dark, remote.
When the wood is hewn
They think it is the Bible of Ar- creeping into her window, she fell
"You most save yourself, that you
holiday. greeting.
asleep. It seemed only a few mo-
Every tree makes moan.
may
finish
your
work."
mageddon;
let
us
go
to
lunch.
The
mountains
dim
to
grey,
Dr. Morris looked past him at the
ments
later
when
hor
mother
awak-
Silently the ax
I
am
never
well
nave
in
action
and
And yet he could remember what
heard
A
silence
once
more
ensued
except
Is
A toneless melody
ened her. "Rosie get up! You'll be
Weeps, alone, alone.
it all had meant once. Why, his boy- shadowy street, then at the sky with From somewhere, far away.
for a suppressed sobbing in the dark. then I feel immoral.
hood had been like the boy's. lie its myriads of silver points.
Everyone knows the steps of a law- late for school, Rosie!" Then she
A sigh forced itself out of the nine
"Yes," he spoke softly. "I sup-
Men, do you believe,
An incense wafted through the air who commiserated their tenth brother. yer's career; he tries in turn to get felt the pale cheeks and noted the
hadn't thought of it for a long time.
I, the an, weep too
What a clean cut little chap the boy pose you might call it that, I was the The field-flowers' fragrance seems,
feverish eyes. "Rosie, don't you feel
A few minutes later, when the old on, to get honor, to get honest.
When the forest green
Every woman should marry; but good? Does your head ache?"
man
asked
in
the
dark:
"Jacob,
are
was! If be had married, perhaps he'd case.
The
world
lies
still
and
sanctified
"Sick?" There was real friendly
With
my steel they hew?
Her
head
did
ache,
she
said,
but
you
still
here?"
there
was
no
reply.
no
man.
have had a son like that—that's the
concern in the tone. "Soul sick!" In the still evening gleams.
kind he'd have wanted. He'd known

The Sinner

Le-Shanah Tobali

EVERY JEW