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the truth utterly regardless of
consequences. That is why the world
to
the present time honors them
down
honors no other men.
There were 15 of these prophets
By SOLOMON IBN GABIROL
whose names are given to as many
books in the Bible. I shall speak of
(Translated by Israel Zangwill.)
only the most important of these.
First of all there was Amos, who
Send forth Thy messenger, Thy interpreter,
taught: "Let justice flow like water
And let him do wonders with signs and happenings,
a mighty
and righteousness as
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stream." He realized what but few
Great God, boundless and unsearehable,
realized in his day and what many
Thy righteousness is like mighty mountains,
fail to realize even today, that more
Thy judgments are like the great deep.
than anything else in the world—
more than love, more than sympathy,,
Bare to Thee and spied out is the heart's imagination and secret,
more even than clarity—justice is,
1.0, shaped in iniquity, how shall man justify the evil of his work?
needed; that everyone, however poor,
Can the grains of hi, dust justify it that were accounted vanity even
lowever low his station, is entitled to
while he was Still in being?
a square deal; that without justice, I
flow then after he has perished and every element passed back to
which means simply, in the words of
its source,
HMO, not doing to another what we
When he is driven like chaff before the wind and like smoke from
would not that another should do
the lattice?
unto us, there can be neither peace
nor contentment nor happiness in life.
Who shall stand up for Thy people, and who set them free?
Let but justice reign supreme and
If for decision Thou shouldat draw nigh them, and if for judgment
instead of conflicts between capital
'thou shouldst take them,
and labor, there will be harmony; in-
Then judge them, I pray Thee, by Thy righteousness,
stead of children wearing their young
And reprove them not according to Thy wrath.
lives away in mill and mine, they will
For what is the weak that he should contend with the mighty,
be in school where they belong•, in-
And how can dry stubble stand in the flame?
stead of the Jew being mistreated be-
cause of his faith, the world, recog-
1.0, as the flower fadeth and the wind flitteth by like a shadow,
nizing that everyone has the right to
So flesh from spirit is rent asunder;
worship God in his own way and re-
If then Thou wilt stir up chastisement,
specting him for daring to remain
There is no way of deliverance ahouldst Thou press hard;
loyal to the religion of his fathers,,
For the workur is sluggish,
will treat him as he should be treated.
And the day short and the work abundant.
Then there was Ilosea. Ile taught I
that God is not only a God of justice,
but also of love. He learned this les. ,
son from his own experience. His I
home life was very unhappy. While
he loved his wife passionately, she'
did not return his love. She was dis.
satisfied and unhappy, and often ,
quarreled with her husband. One ,
night she left him. Ilosea was heart-
By DR. LEONARD J. ROTHSTEIN
broken. For several years he did not
know what had become of her, until
In the early days of our history poor; some were men of fine educa- one day he received an unsigned let-
there lived among our people a small tion and culture, others were unedu- ter stating that she would be :sold at
band of men, the equal of whom the cated and unrefined. But all were auction the next day. At the ap-
world has never seen. I refer to the alike in being champions of the help- pointed hour he hastened to the mar-
prophets—those righteous and God- less, in being fearless preachers of ketplace, bought his wife, forgave
fearing men whose whole life was righteousness. They received no pay her and brought her back to his home.
lived in the service of God and hu- for their preaching. They spoke be- The more he thought of his sad ex-
manity. Sono., thought of them as cause they felt compelled to speak, perience, the more he realized that
fortune-tellers, simply foretelling the because they could not remain silent. it had been sent by God for a pur-
events of the future. But this they Whenever they saw oppression of any pose, namely to help him to preach
were not. They were (as someone kind, whenever they witnessed an act God's love to his people. As he, Ho-
has well said) not foretellers, but of injustice, whenever they knew that sea, had taken back his wife even
forthtellers, God's spokesmen, ac- the rich were taking advantage of the though she had been faithless to him,
quainting the people with Ills wishes. poor, they raised their voices in pow- so would God take back all sinners if
They have been fittingly called God- erful protest, they lashed the evil- only they would repent of their mis-
intoxicated men, for God filled their doers with their fiery tongues and de- deeds. "God desireth not the death
minds and thoughts constantly. They manded that they cease doing wrong of the sinner, but that he should re-
came from all walks of life. Some and that they learn to to right. They pent and live."
were high-born, others were low- were afraid of no man—no matter
Following Ilosea came the states-
born; sonic were rich, others were how high his station in life. They
man-prophet Isaiah. Ile had a dif-
ferent message for the people, which
is summed up in the sentence: "Holy,
holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the
whole earth is full of his glory." Not
only is God just and loving, but lie
is also holy. As children of His, we,
too, therefore, must be holy. What
I does that mean? It means that we
,must keep ourselves far from every
thing that is unclean and impure. We
must have clean minds, clean lips and'
clean hands. We must think clean
thoughts, we must speak clean words,
we must perform clean acts.
FOR ATONEMENT EVE
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ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS
We take this opportunity of expressing our sincere
wishes for a Happy and Prosperous New Year,
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III The prophet Micah not only repeat-
, ed Isaiah's wonderful prediction of
! universal peace, that the time would,
come when swords would be beaten
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,,Eerfect definition of religion that it
as ever heard. It is contained in
that famous sentence of his: "Ile
hath told thee, 0 man, what is good
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I, and to walk humbly with thy God."
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Religion, he says, consists of three
customers, inasmuch no I am able to more fully give the service
I things. The first of these is what
and attention due them.
Amos had taught—justice. A man
may pray often, he may attend serv-
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holidays of his religion, but unless he
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is just in his dealings with all men,
regardless of their faith or station in
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is mercy. Man must not live for him-
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be truly religious. The third and last
is humility. Not only in time of sor-
row and misfortune should we turn
to God, but also in time of joy and
prosperity. Never should we be guilty
of saying: "My strength and the
power of mine arm hath gotten me
this wealth," but we should always
remember that it is God to whom we
are indebted for all our happiness and
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success.
And finally, there was Ezekiel, the
nropret of the exile. Ile taught:
"The soul that sinneth, it shall die."
In other words, his message to his
age and to all ages was "individual
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responsibility." This does not con-
tradict that portion of the second
commandment which says that "the
sins of the fathers are visited upon
the children," for that means that the
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• but are not punished for them. Every
individual is punished for his own
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The more often we read the his-
•
tory of our people, the more do we
marvel at these men of whom I have
just written—these fearless, godly
men, who, living in the midst of in-
justice, hate, impurity, war, at a time
when animal sacrifice was thought to
be the only means of communing with
when it was believed that
God
I children had to pay for their father'.
misdeeds, dared to preach the new
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nests and of peace, dared to tell their
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agent, must suffer for his own errors.
They preached for people who lived
many centuries ago, but their mes-
sages are as vital and as necessary
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Astor Jewelry Co.
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patrons and to the Jewish Community of Detroit
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I take this means of wishing all
my friends and patrons and the
Jewish community of Detroit
felicitations of the season.
S. H. Werner, President
525 WOODWARD AVE.
spoke
Rosh Hashonah Greetings to All Our Friends.
Among the Jewish women who took
part in the Women's Lawyers' Asso-
ciation annual meeting in Phila-
delphia were Judge Mary B. Gross-
man of Cleveland, Assistant District
Attorney ROM Rothenberg of New
York and Anna Moskowitz Kross, for-
mer New York corporation counsel.
Michigan Automotive
Supply Company
Wholesale Automobile Accessories
and Garage Equipment.
134 EAST JEFFERSON
MAIN 62.51
Nathan Straus is devoting his per-
sonal attention to • campaign for
oilk pasteurization in England,
which he promised Lord Balfour he
would inaugurate.
The council of Sheffield University
has decided to confer the title of doe.
tor of laws on Lord Beersted, former-
ly Sir Marcus Samuel, who in 1903
was Lord Mayor of London. While
mayor he laid the foundation stone
I of
the university.
The Styler Press
SVers of Good Printing
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