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WHERE YOUNG ABYSSINIAN JEWS ARE
TAUGHT LAWS AND HISTORY OF JUDAISM
in them the love toward religion and
tional idea begins to fail ,falls from toward sacred things which sleeps in
its energy and vigor, into a kind of the heart of all youth; and in this
paralysis, moving further and further wise the time will surely come when
away from the roots and sources of our youth will improve its way of life,
its strength. Then the nation or and come to true repentance; than
By ABRAHAM CAPLAN
group begins to falter under the is ao cause for us to despair of a
burden of life, and its existence loses single aloe who springs from the holy
Or it may that the surroundings in
S the Big Brother idea new? Is it I which the boy lives distort his mind
all delight, becomes meaningless and seed."
anarchic. Than aberrations of thought
a fad, one of those that have their and inject bitterness in his heart. And
The Chief Rabbi of Palestine, !sea'
take place, and the nation begins at Abraham Kook, is a lofty and shining
a fad, one of those that have their the Big Brother, who has won sue- I
seek justification for its existence, personality, bringing comfort to th,
day as long as singular personalities
because he worked for it, who
ideas without foundation air meaning. Jewish people, enriching it with pro
espouse them and disappear as soon knows how to hilt) his Little Brother
Even economic life falls to a low level, found thoughts, both national and re
TO ALL MY
as their first advocates drop them or because he had learned to understand
lowomes hateful anal ugly. The calm ligious. Ile is among the greatest 0
pass from the scene? It is not.
him,
and
who
would
guide
and
be-
JEWISH FRIENDS
anal rhythm of the inner life are re- our generation.
The Big Brother urge has its root friend him because he wants to be
placed by low anal wild desires; in-
in human nature, especially in the practical in his Jewishness, sets out to
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stead if the soul there is a seeking
instincts of mon who have undergone do his work. A man's earnest efforts
for man physical ;age's, mechanic
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I process of development that may be bring him the results he seeks.
satisfactans and hungers.
alled social education. The conscious
What does the Ili o Brother do t
And lust as he is the inspired poet
Big Brother thinks in terms of homes') make his Little Brother a better re
of the God-idea, so he is equally the
values and enthusiastically believes sun,
son, a more faithful Jew, is true'
singer of the national idea. His na-
that the work of helping a boy to American? After he becomes well
tionalism, which is informed with
express the best that is in him is acquainted with his Little Brother,
modern ideas, in alern understanding,
only next in importance to elemental the Big Brother studies the boy's per-
has been lifted by him to the level
conservation of human life. Con- sonality, his strong and weak points,
RUG AND CARPET
of religion and mysticism.
sequently, the relation of the Big the possibilities
ilities in his nature and the :
CLEANERS
When Rao Kook writes of the new-
Brother to the Little Brother is defects which need to he removed or
sister to the God-idea, cannot develop
characterized by friendship and rja- no dified. He seeks to understand the
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.
mentary part. And the full double
Mtn the sort of friendship that springs for a manifestation of the nobility
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development, a blessing to all man-
eals.l
understanding
an
which
every
boy,
in
greater
or
lesser
I
AND
from
kind, can only he consummated by the
tool
idmutua
Ito
you think the Big Brother's measure, possesses. • Ile inquires of
Old Carpet. Made Into New
return of the Jewish people to the land
Rugs.
work trivial and soft and sentimental? . his Little Brother s parents and o
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of their fathers. Only there will the
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may be his teachers, secular and religious. Ile :
er
.lewish people become the instrument
Do you think a Little
and that comes to certain conclusions, de- I
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Ha-Cohen
Kook,
events
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life
and
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and expression of the dual perfec-
handled
with absolute
Abraham
y results
may be ease
achieved with terminea Oat such and such
are his,
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of Palestine, is a man creation. Ile is nut interested in de- tion, a living thing rooted in its prop-
ro th e r', problems , such and Chief Rabbi
happy
enough
to
be
called
a
type
tails
and
minor
incidents.
Ile
sees
nod of the head on the Little B
er soil.
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a part
generous
of a well-meaning man? If you such his needs, and such and such singular
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do, you are not acquainted with the the most plausible methods of pro- in himself—an extraordinary phe- the moving s etting
panorama distanft
as a whole,
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his de velo in
blossoming
life
in
Palestine,
when
he,
e
pl
peo
grins facts of life. cresting to meet them. nomenon in the world of Orthodox its vasthe
ofpuls e o
feels the
ments;
writes of the Chaluzim, he is, despite
Thus begins a contact between Big : Jewry.
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And yet it is hardly possible to and hears the great voice of his age. the fact that they are not strict in
Life out
about
us does
not automatically
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turn
happy
situations.
Nature, Brother that often lasts for years and
I would like to say that Rao Kook
orthodoxy, filled with joy and en-
to him the term Orthodox. In-
in
many
instances
develops
into
a
apply
e cannot be included in any of is: a religious, impressionist thinker, thusiasm. Then his speech becomes
n ithsowc rnuettl soplhf es; friendship which approaches the
asanit
dee
kaniididlhy oni
a now
parties or subdivisions but more poet than .thinker.
igba s
nature
hog
of true and abiding friendship : thed, recognized
The following is a quick sketch of lyrically tender. Ills have toward
Palestine, and toward all that we are
admirable and almost divine and
oya lt y an d a desire . of .lewry. Ile is a synthesis of all the
now destructive and fickle and weak. —unselfishness,
l other a, a s pi r it of living forces in historic and tra- his outlook.
h
eac
now
In his ideology nationalism and God creating there, is boundless and bot-
tomless. De knows neither perplexity
II istory records uneven Progress, to serve
ditional Judaism, of all that is finest
high human achievement mutual helpfulness. concerns himself , and clearest in our past and present. take up the chief places. The two nor pessimism, even when all seems to
e Bi g B roth er
periods of h
Kook
is
the
poet,
the
enthusiast
of
concepts
are
interwoven
in
h
is
he going wrong. When he speaks of
as well as periods during which human . Th
nature, like a boy in an ugly frame about Harry's or Sam's or Jacob's
Palestine even the dullest workday
social ban kgroun
in g, a complex as the dominating powers of life, com- aspects of its life become to hiin sacred
of mind, presents its meanest front. Physical tan ands of his
ral fe, the sided
and involved personality. And the ing to fruition in all life forms, both and beautiful.
parallel to the history of the world. : conditions in his home, his progress 1 central inspiration, the motive power, tangible and intangible, physical and
WET WASH
In one of his published letters, he
e ex ten t o f hi s religious i
wole- -e I the living impulse at the center of spiritual. They run a parallel course, says the following about the youth:
We Jews believe that the world is at school, th
FLAT WORK
capable of infinite progress, that con- , education and the way in
n which he
development of history. The play of "The chief point and purpose of all
to
ROUGH DRY
God.
ditions may be so s p
faith
circumstances sometimes gives prone our strictures against the youth, is,
possible the unfuldment of the nobler lie str ives in a kind and determined
The leit-motif of his creations, of inence to one of these ideas ,sometimes at the present time, to teach them not
aspects of human nature — justice, way, but without overzealousness or his mystic-religious-philosophic, Cab- to the other. Sometimes it happens to cease from loving the people from
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s—e vin in his that th ese t wo i d eas are the cause of which they spring. When they will
honor, peace, generosity, goodwill and patronage, to place his Little Brother balist-tinged writing
righteousness. We believe that if we upon the road of useful understand- private corr spondence is the Kru- great events and movements in social, love their people there will also waken
e
im-
put forth the proper efforts we may ing anal to arouse In him the proper vath-Elohim, the ineluctable
national and individual life; some-
realize a life that the great men in appreciation of the duties and oppor- manence of the Godhead.
times they are the effect; but always
Jewish history have labored for and tunities and values which life presents
One looks in vain in his writings,
are present.
in words most eloquent advocated. to every normal human being. Ile for the stylist, the finished, restrained they
A people, or group, before it re-
But the Jewish genius insisted that endeavors to arouse in his Little
ceives the inspiration of the God-idea,
ideal conditions are to be had only as Brother
I writer
as such: he lacks
clarity
a love for his parents and his
and craftmanlike
exactness
of and
the is merely a moving clod, a soulless
o f work B
"' a obligation towards lacks form. But in place of these mechanism. The God-idea gives it the I
a result of the hardest kindit i s each
se
rseverance
and
that
there
is
passionate
directness,
pro-
the community, a feeling
d for the won-
breath of life, Will, Energy, Art,
an pe
one's duty to engage in service nearest ders
found intuition, rich fantasy, red- Culture and Intellect, the needs of
apparently ders of nature, a consciousness of the
at hand, no matter how .
romance of life and an ambition to blooded temperament.
life and all spiritual movement, melt
Among the rabbis and thinkers of
Ile would have his Little
obscure.
O the Continent or the
succeed
The Jewish Big Brother interests Brother taste of the sweetness which our day, Ran. Kook possesses beyon d and fuse, issuing in body and soul.
British isles—only 4
Out of this play emerge social and
himself in a Jewish lad who, because comes with the triumph over difficulty Fl doubt the most authentic speech. national groups, the synthesis of the
days open sea by Canadian
of his lack of understanding, would and failure and temptation.
b'ri o t t; inclniltinfetaws.ha ernmtoht God-idea and the impulse to social life
l'acific liners.
rather be coarse than cultured, often-
—giants
It is almost impossible to describe in a hloi i v. h orr eaa lso ginto w
The Emp
t
and creation.
sive
rather than
It happens that the national idea,
of the St. Lawrence Route
his parents
and generous,
friends and the corn- detail Poe !oar" of the influence God-inspiration. Ilis utterance is
—sail from Quebec. The
ing and cheerful. It is not always \ which a high-minded Bg i Brother i never
deliberate ,slow-moving. It is when it has developed strongly, seeks
I
munity rather than obedient and lov- exerts over his Little Brother. Per- l winged, soars aloft. All that Kook
Monocless Cabin Ships sail
at times to tear itself free from the
from Montreal. You can see
stage ' I has p ublished hitherto is incomplete, God-idea, and to establish an inde-
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h ve reach ed the adult st
Old French Canada al either
mes sons w h oa
some
the
boy's
fault,
for
nature
finish
and
consistency.
All
that
port. Further intormstion
f
vaguely,
i
know,
even
i lacks
pendent existence, but there is no
stead of coal in
eings.
with
human
bti
tram local steamship agents or
he turns out from his pen is sketchy: record in human history which points
unkindly
tal
and
moral
makeup
is
the
result
I
deals
your own heating
of contact with other human beings, it has the character of preparation, or to the 'success of such an experiment.
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as well as the result of reading the rather, of an omen of prophecy. There As long as a group continues to
type—steam, hot
masterpieces of literature and of are no clear, sharp-defined ideas, no exist, the God-idea reposes in it, even
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water, vapor, or hot
direct teaching and guidance. Those concrete theses; there is an atmo- though in obscurity, hidden, reduced
of re-
persons, in many instances, can at - sphere, a breathing warm
air. Controlled by a
to almost complete dormancy. At its
tribute that phase of their character b' tgoito,du isngl i f en,n intshtei n ;to nv.t.,i tah ntath en tp„raelsdeinntg, lowest ebb, it still retains its life.
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of which they are most proud to the
And whatever events are written into
1 fates automatically
influence of certain individuals with l
the history of that group and people
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whom they have been brought into 'the far-future. • • •
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can ultimately lie traced back to this
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He is a philosophic-mystic thinker, hidden, almost stifled God-idea.
the fuel needed to
one sort of relationship or another.
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And the same is true a those who: a man of moods: and yet he is alive
maintain the tem•
And it happens, too, that the na-
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A ! fidence which his Big Brother places
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0 bestows upon him. But with all these,
1; the relationship between the two is
O peculiarly human and reasonable and
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4 ° 0 either a feeling of superiority on the
O part of the Big Brother or inferiority
• • al the
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. th0r were like those that I have seen
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•
, but by actions which words cannot
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who come under the sway
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have done for them, they will, when
their time comes, present themselves
to their respet•tive communities as '
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• eager to help other Little Brothers or
to assist in other ways in the various ,
duties which worthy men cheerfully
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