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By ELISHA M. FRIEDMAN.
Published Weekly by The Jewish Chronicle Publishing Ce., Inc.
safe premise upon which life can be predicted?
Too much has been said of falestine which savors
Joseph J. Cummins, President and Editor
of the honeymooners' ecstasy and not enough from the
Jacob H. Schakne, General Manager
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point of view of trivialties and natural resources.
mler
ai blish rc 8. 1916, at the PostoMTe at Detroit.
Entered a. Second-clas ,
Mich , under the Act of March 8, 1879.
The poets, the dreamers and the visionaries are the
Schola rs
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Looking to the source of ralthini, l- .
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sensitive and perspicacious ones of our world. They
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islation, the Bible, and antagonn .• l„
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hich the liothor gives
gstiotitioi " in w();
like
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of Massachusetts,
or
Lodge
write rythmic verse, vision beauty and romance and
of the
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is
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was
a
scholar
in
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dream of freedom. We would not diminish this rich
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rertion to noun, not
personal sue. .'. 1
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itics. Like the war President, he was a
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store of joy. We would indeed feel that this were a historian, humanist and man of cul-
but
Israel's deliverance from
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rn Jewi.h life
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Denying the progressive spirit --f
tore
who
towered
above
his
col-
poverty-stricken
anti
drab
world
without
poems,
$3.00 Per Year
Subscription, in Advance
binisni, it forbade leaving the ,
In the struggle that followed
PART I.
dreams and visions, but to bring them into the world of leagues.
on the Sabbath and imposed nia ,
the penning of the Treaty of Ve r-
noefw:„Aat.tzkm ust reach this
To insure publiration o, m :. 1.1 trir Te=rir
.lewish
life
is
in
a
state
of
transi-
evening
reality we must perforce take stock of the material
striations based on a literal
sallies, it was Wilson and Lodge, the
tion. The old order, with its belief
the Bible. Rationalism
scholars
of
their
respective
parties,
on
subject!,
of
Interest
h Ch onicle invitee correspondence
facts d nd conditions.. By all means love Palestine with who came to grips on the very vital in the profound significance of every to
The Detroit Jewi sr
losophy. Asceticism' was it. 1,-
an Indorsement of the
Jevsleh
people,
but
disclaims
reeponsIbility
for
dot and letter in the Bible, in the stet-
to the
the unalloyed love of the honeymooner, but honey-
The counter reformation in ...
issue of the League of Nations.
views expressed by the writers.
it' nature, the fixity and the soul-say-
circles stimulated ,
What a gulf of irreconcilability there
moons end and the hard realities of everyday humdrum
power of every detail of the core-
and it study of ColatitnimrS Ili
Cheshvan 24, 5685 existence must be faced, and that humdrum life is stern, opened up between the New England ing
November 21, 1924
monial law, in the divine character of
political sage and that positive, will-
l ■ sophy with which the .
rabbinic legislation, in the personal
cruel
and
sordid,
even
filthy.
charged
man
who
dominated
America
rabbis, had been out of touch
•
:Messiah, and in a miraculous restor-
for eight years. Were Lodge a Alas-
Thanksgiving.
It is because we are so intensely concerned about
Rabbinic Judaism was
withering
are
ation
of
Palestine—all
sachusetts industrialist or banker, one
We are thankful to the modern miracle workers, freedom, love and honeymoons that we obtrude the of those political chieftains who trum- away under the mighty complex of other forces. Sandialt supple
ditional Judaism with a Iterrot..,.
the scientists, inventors and engineers. These men of realistic fact of humdrum, technical equipment, re- peted immemorially the protective cultural and social forces of modern tionalist philosophy. All Aral , -
times. As an Arabic rationalist in
tariff ideal and all it implied, we
the tlutazilitt•s, posited the toot, of
purpose anti inspiration have exploited our natural re- sources, discipline and men,
the
days
of
Saatliah
said,
"Our
peo-
might have expected a veritable
God, the absence of any altrildte
Frankly, ours is a high spirited, adventurous race, know-nothing outlook. For the con- the are divided into two classes, those divide
sources with such intelligence and success that the age-
His Essence and the f od, 1 of
that
have
intelligence
but
no
belief
old problem of social poverty has disappeared con- ready to embark upon any enterprise where freedom coot of a "full dinner pail," done to
the will. This school ta,htrod
11151 those that believe anti have no un-
death in campaign after campaign,
thought. .1 win ism adapted
pletely from the American scene. The famines and anti love are present, but a little of the sobering influ-
derstanding."
was, from the standpoint of the in-
the tlohanimedan Arab eticir,d
plagues of Russia, China and India are inconceivable `once of the Anglo-Saxon will not be amiss,
The Jews today are deprived of an
dustrial chieftains, a veritable re-
Realizing the excessive timid)) s o 0
legion,
and
nothing
besides
it
mat-
upper class to cap their social life.
in this country, although we are not favored by nature
form, Bachaya Ben .1,,,,ph I6,. I' .I.. t.
Their intelligent men are estranged
tered.
With
the
daft attempted to stress the et, . •
with greater potential wealth than are t h ey.
But Ilenry Cabot Lodge was the
from their people and their faith. The
"Only Israel Is Unique."
sir of Judaism. In his Arab,- -,
scholar in polities, the humanist in
Nlichelsons ill America, Brandeses in
problem of national poverty out of the way it may not
translated into ilehrew as 11,.• c
D eimilir k an d w iisserniiiii „ i ii Ger.
public affairs. Even if we were to
Johan
J.
Smertenko,
writing
in
the
Menorah
Jour-
be long before these men of unyielding purpose will
Ihities os
lialebaboth, "The
concede that his opposition to the
many are not Jewish in 1111V sense, en-
(hid a solution•for the problem of individual poverty, nal for September, chides Jewry for its Messianic, evan- Treaty of Versailles WAS actuated by (Tilt by the claims of a 110 , 1110 whom Heart," he tried to n•concile c
and
faith,
respecting
always
th.
gelical mission and then scolds because of the servility righteous motives and his hatred for they abandoned. The Jewish social
which still exists amidst all this plenty.
tion of tradition. The nett-Pis. •
the League of Nations prompted by
body is thus left depleted and from
and
attempt
to
imitate
the
Gentile.
Ile
confesses
that
We are thankful because we are at peace with the
of the tingeswits the spirit wii ; .' .
what he regarded us inimical to
its ranks is recruited the new material
•
-
American interests, and that no per-
whole world and because we have not been recalcitrant he has perhaps written too fervently, dogmatically. If
in the ever continuing process of as-
Among those who attempted t-,
sonal considerations moulded his
that
were
the
vice
of
the
article
we
could
readily
for-
similation.
in extending our aid in the establishment of peace in
oncile scicLee anti faith and tho- .1.
disdain for President Wilson,
The
ry Europe when the nations of that continent showed a give it, but when he is guilty of distortion, one may al- fierce
This condition is not new.
talizii ceremony and form, Alweivii-
we cannot fail to note an extraortii-
twentieth century phase of it is a con-
most say perversion, of the facts, the admission does
le
ides was pre-eminent.
Ile tt
nary antithesis between his and Wil-
disposition to come to amicable agreements.
titillation of a disruptive process, be-
son's
outlook.
Wilson
beheld
a
world
bring Jewish thought into lint- with
not excuse.
ginning in the latter decades of the
We are thankful because the narrow and stifling
culture. At that time tl.i•
nroblom and eseayed to approach it.
As an example of heat without light the following lie may have been wise or unwise in eighteenth etoitury. The eastern Jew, iisophy id Aristotle was dbnc.,,,,,
spirit of provincialism is giving way to a world out-
in Russia as in America, is manifest-
his measures, although intellectual
Ma inionidets took his problem lob,
look, and because the divine discontent which enables suffices:
ing the same process t day AS his
candor, pressed to declare itself on
guide those persons who xV,I,
more favored brother did in Germany
man to envisage the whole world is gripping a larger
71
the world's chief problem--that of in-
sassed by the contradiction
I do not mean assimilation. This is not the place to
guars ago.
the teachings of philosophy a, .1 the
ternational peace—must admit that
argue the question. But compare the attitude of the assimi-
number of our citizens.
The causes of this disintegration
at.
concord
is,
attainable
through
the
literal
sense
of
the
Torah."
lated Irishman with that of the Jew. how the Irish acclaim
We are thankful because there is ti more critical
have been traced wtih a master hand
leaguing of the world's moral forces
tempt to square the Aristolt-11,, d-
their blond heritage at every opportunity and recognize it
by Dr. Arthur Ruppin in 'The Jews
attitude toward ourselves and our works which insists
and not through isolationist empha-
trier "r the eternity
as the source of their qualities; how proudly they cherish
ot Today." The new culture was
!Vic
ses. But Lodge gave no inkling of a
• on with Genesis, which
the story of their petty tribal development; how freely they
that our literature, drama' and art attain higher stand-
ushered in socially by the civil eman-
world
attitude
that
was
constructive,
beginning
Y.
• of both, anti the al.o.a.•t
transplant their racial problems and heroes to the land of
cipation of the Jew and the rise tof
ards.
suggestive of an eagerness to sound
unity of Cod with the :nth nip. wor-
their adoption! Before the war both the Jews and the Irish
modern capitalism and intellectually
We are thankful because the Klan has ceased its
an
original
theme
in
the
literature
of
pint. allusions tit the Bible a.,
were struggling for a homeland. Whatever other reasons
by scientific materialism and ration-
politics. Whereas Wilson staked his
logic similar to the strotelle,, : , of
moved hint, no Irishman desisted from supporting the Sinn
outbreaks of personal violence and has become a tan-
alism.
word, and nu-ening by GlatIst -1,-• In
very life and h is standing in history
Fein movement on the grounds that it would cast a shadow
gible political entity, for as such it must receive the ap -
Eastern
Eu-
of
on
a
Prometheus-like
venture,
Lodge
The
Jewish
religion
refuting Huxley's account of 1,
of doubt on, his American patriotism ; jurists, legislators,
contented himself, be the reason what
rope fares very poorly under the im-
as evidenced by natural scion-,
proval of the electorate to continue its existence.
civic executives of the highest rank engaged actively in
it
may,
with
playing
the
part
of
an
pact
of
these
mighty
forces.
Bred
in
monides' views on prophecy and mira-
the fight, the war against it power friendly to the United
We are thankful' because we were able to assist
elder statesman, moved not so much
it ghetto isolation, dependent thereup-
cles anti Frovidence show hint t.. Is.
States. When a great Jew, who had proved his American-
those who were in distress in Europe, as well as relieve
by
the
halting
calm
of
serenity
as
by
on
for
ritual
and
dogma
and
fostered
less hold and consistent in Ili-al.:lit
ism in every action of his noble life, rose in defense of
an implied suggestion that in the life
by an intellectual inbreeding, the theo-
than (litrsopides. In refuting 4-'1 , 1-
Zoinism,
the
Jewish
press
and
the
English
newspapers
the leSs fortunate in our own midst.
of nations the only thing that count ,
logy of old buckles anti bends under
ogy, however, he was most logical, do.
controlled by Jews questioned his loyalty and embarrassed
We are thankful because there is a growing con-
is national sovereignity.
the stress. Socially. the Jew's became
daring that belief should be loo,d
his service to the cause. Again, the Irish have a saint
And speaking of elder statesmen
sciousness among our people that the culture of Juda-
Helix e in commerce and science—the
sense perception. Yet, he dts•Int...1
whose birthday is a cause for celebration and rejoicing,
and the serenity which experience is
forces
that
above
all
others
have
brok-
that even had Aristotle's proof , boon
when
every
Hibernian,
no
matter
how
far
removed
or
ism is not only worthy of preservation but that it can
said to distill, one cannot escape, while
en international barriers. Freed anti
conclusive, hP would have made thou
what his religion, renews his allegiance to the race—is it
be offered to the world as a culture not only on a parity
discussing
Lodge,
recalling
Arthur
J.
scattered
amidst
all
the
peoples,
the
necessary to draw the shameful contrast between this action
agree with the Bildt , account of On ,-
Balfour. And yet, although we do
Jewish surface of contact increased
ation—a view more admirable for its
with the Greek, but surpassing it in many respects.
and our own denationalization? It will suffice to mention
not
overlook
the
fact
that
Great
Brit-
fur
the
play
of
these
destructive
that the name "American Jewish Congress" was chal-
loyalty to tradition than for it- con-
We are thankful because our dramatists, literati
ain's advocacy of a League of Na-
forces. Separatist observance like the
lenged by Jews for fear that it might be deemed un-
fortuity to truth.
tions plan was based as much on its
and artists have labored so earnestly and joyously that
Sabbath, the dietary laws anti ritual
Concrete. mutter-of-fact, legalettc
patriotic where the title "American Jewish Conference"
own peculiar requirements as a cam.
peculiarities vanished under their sol-
Judaism was again questioned a little
would be considered loyal to the United States.
matey have discovered for the first time the warmth,
monwealth of nations as on a desire
And as the Irish do, so do the Dutch, so the Poles, the
later not by rationalists, but by my,
vent influence.
beauty and charm of our Yiddish and lIebrew heri-
to remove, if possible, the stubble for
Swedes, the Italians. Only Israel is unique. Recently
ties. They sought from err
Modern education in science anti in
the flames of war, we look upon Bal-
there was celebrated in New York a Walloon tercentenary
Source relief from inquisition,
historical criticism has destroyed
tage.
four as belonging to the brand of
which
the
descendants
to
the
tenth
generation
and
with
less
ment and legal proscription. com-
much of the basis of belie[ and prac-
We are thankful because there is a marked tend-
public men to whom experience and
Walloony blood in their veins ,than it takes to pigment a
munion with Gig] took the Jew
tice. The adoption by Jews of the lan-
ency among our people to discard purely material val-
serenity
and
the
judgment
of
full
finger nail forced the entire state to take cognizance of
from the dismal earthly envirenniont.
guage of the several countries has
years whisper thoughts of kindness
their anniversary. If the Sephardim dared to suggest a
ues and substitute artistic, spiritual and cultural values.
The vital questions that agitated thene
resulted in a foreign attitude toward
and adjustment.
similar festival it would undoubtedly be interpreted by
reformers at the end of the thirbonth
Jewish culture. Jews speak of the
We are thankful because an increasing number of
their fellow-Jews as an overt act against the government
century were the relation of 11,1 to
"Dark Ages," although the geniuses
our co-religionists have realized that institutions of
Edifice
deserving of an investigation by BBurns-Palmer-Daugherty.
man, evil anti the immortality of the
of Jewish history—Saadiah, ihn Ga-
soul.
The ethics of man and le.. vir-
learning must be built and maintained if the spirit and
birol, ibn Ezra, .lehudah Ilalevi,
-
TIIE far flung dispersion of the
If
for
the
purpose
of
his
argument
he
had
favored
tues, not his intelligence, were tht eon-
monities,
Rash'
and
Ben
Gerson--
i Jewish people has been commented
substance of an American Judaism is to be created.
us with some examples of Nordic Protestant aggressive- 011 without end, We are not unlike cer- flourished in contrast to the barren- (nil themes of their don't rings.l •
mutely this thought ran to seed in the
of the European world. The
ness or bumptiousness the proposition would have some tain stump speakers when, in wordy ness
study of symbols and mystic
Renaissance meant little for Jewish
gesture, we exclaim that from the
Honeymoon and Humdrum.
validity. But when the Dutch, Poles, Swedes anti Ital- frozen steppes of Siberia to the warm history, for that period witnessed the which found its basis in the &lid use
of Hebrew alphabet as letters and
sterilization
of
Jewish
life
by
the
cod-
coasts
of
the
Mediterranean,
from
Who does not prefer the honeymoon time to the
ians are the exemplars of race vitality and conscious-
numbers. The Sefer Yezirah of Tal-
ification of Jewish legalism and the
Strand in London and Fifth ave-
humdrum time of every clay life? Who would not ness we are compelled to call a halt to the proceedings, the
mudic times and the Zohar art , the
arrest of its development under perse-
nue in New York to Johannesburg
rather be taken to the mountain top and shown the
even though it comes from the heart and is prompted and the Golden Gate of San Fran- cution and confinement. Acceptance products of this spirit. The extreme
result of this movement was the ait- •
of
these
terms
shows
the
estrangement
cisco Jews, in larger or smaller num-
rich valleys below rather than be compelled to toil be-
by the most sincere motives.
pearance of self-deluded mystics Who
of Jews front Jewish thought.
bers, may be found. We do not wish
hind the plow, earning your bread with sweat and dirt?
It is a fact that the Jewish youth of America is not to say whether or not, from the stand-
believed
themselves Messiahs of Is-
Anti-Semitism has also been an
rael sent for deliverance.
Is there one who is not elated by the picture of love
sufficiently informed on Jewish history, culture and
ever present influence. Its basis has
point of Jewish welfare, this wide
Running parallel with these move-
triumphant? Optimism and ecstasy contribute in no heroic figures, but the ignorance of the Polish, Irish, scattering of Jewry is a very happy been first religious, then national and ments
counter to legalism, Jewish his -
finally iteonomic, anti its form physi-
condition. But this for a surety we
. tory records a process of codifying the
small measure to increasing the tune of human exist-
Dutch, Swedish anti Italian youth on similar subjects know, that wherever a handful of cal,
cal, legal and then social, correspond-
Jews
get
together—unless
they
be
fol-
ceremonial
lave. The encyclopedic
ing
to
the
intellectual
development
of
ence. They are sufficient unto themselves and need no
relating to their own countries far surpasses that of the
tivity of Ma imonides produced the
of the school of Lenin—they
E urope. Cultural anti-Semitism is
Jewish youth, anti as to the consciousness and vitality lowers
justification.
the
growth
of
this
first
comprehensive
codification of the
sooner or later, more often sooner
Of
the newest phase
We would be happy to record the joys of social of nationality the above denunciated groups make than later, will organize a congrega- a-so
law, the Yad Ilachzaka or Melt'
fade.
cial
foy. 110WeVer, ASSiMI111-
nti
tion
and
start
a
campaign
to
build
a
Torah.
In
1310
Asheri
wrote his ,-I , .
lion, baptism and intermarriage offer
honeymoon, the achievement of the millenium. It is every effort to wipe out every trace at the first oppor-
synagogue, even if they have no hope
About 1345 his son Jacob protbea. ,
an
an avenue of escape and many a Jew
not from a desire to dissect anti analyse that we refuse
tunity.
of going. beyond the ground floor of
four digests, the Turin. About 1
avails himself of these means of being
to accept Pollyanna judgments, but the hard facts of
The national groups other than the Anglo-Saxon their structure.
several rabbis codified the caste ,
lost in "the average man."
.
No earnest Jew can or wishes to
thecommunities. In 15111 Joseph
Modern Jewish life, exposed to the
in America make no great to-do about their origin and
life, especially bitter in the last ten years, dampen our
,1' '
deny that the desire of a new com-
changes anti influences outlined, is un-
finished the }took comm only L1
manifest
little
pride
in
their
nationality.
This
is
es-
sec-
ardor for jubilation anti extravagant happiness.
munity or a group in an outlying
,lows today, the Shulchan Aruch
dergoing a process of dissolution
We are about to murder a child conceived in a fine
pecially true since the discriminating attitude taken tion of a community to erect a syna- which threatens the integrity of the treatise crystallizing the lega •
gogue is anything but laudable. But
Jewish
people
anti
its
distinctive
and
against southern and southeastern Europeans in recent if building is to be done, let it be essential values. Assuming the t e- thought of previous centuries ll
frenzy by no less a poet tRan Maurice Samuel.
tablhing a norm of life for a
1 •--
with slowly, thoughtfully, wisely, suability of anti necessity fur preserv-
is the Reform movement at ,
A reception was tendered him on his return from immigration legislation.
up to
with a sense of the value and useful-
g th
this day still shaping
the lives '
mg the people and its essential values,
Palestine anti on this joyous occasion he spoke of Pal-
flay we not suggest to Johan Smertenko that the
(us e
ewi
th eft world
ness of the stru. ctu re for a reasonabl
what
social
and
cultural
adjustments
large
portion
of
the
J
.
estine "Where the Fruit is Freedom." It is all panegy- next time he meets a specially perfervid Irishman or a
There
has been t
T
period of years
Against this emphasis of the .do.,‘
to the new conditions can Jews make!
ric, all in that heigh-ho of the poetry of ecstasy, and particularly servile Jew, that he mistake not these in- much waste in synagogue rearing.
Let us endeavor to learn the les-
of the details of ritual and d, t • t
g
are buildin
dividuals for the whole race? It is really much more Willie some communities
( whose p arallel development we
sns of the. Jewish p art, for history
beautifully done. For instance this passage:
lifices of be auty and costliness and
not trace here) the persecuted .I. ',-
roeco rds similar periods. Twenty-three
satisfactory to discuss the matter objectively anti de- e doing so only after careful inquiry hundred
gain sought a counterpoise. It In.
anti some odd years ago, Ezra
And you make your way along the path in the midst
into
the trend of things within the
sm, inat
tachedly, rather than fervently and dogmatically.
a
led the return of a handful of Jews
in the form of Chass
of them, anti you reach the little city. There is a spirit
community, others have proceeded to
Separate
measures
ated
by Israel Baal Stem Tub. .lo
from
Babylon.
American Jewry is not what it should be by any engage in the erection of centers of
in the place, the spirit of freedom. These homes are simple,
tern,ie-.
ism was again revalued in
effected. The heathen practices
but they are sturdy and well-spaced. Go into one of them
means, but by comparison its national spirit is both worship without proper financial were
the time. Cossack persecution w i
were discarded. The Torah readings
and you will find yourself in the home of men anti women
equipment
or
a
consideration
of
the
-The Men Of the
aur sc,(1 rivid formalism within I ad
i.ston.”
fin(' vital. To wive illustrations of this fact to
.
.,.
....,
inc,itored
„„
who live worthily, with an understand mg
factors which promote or weaken the
life. It burst its
contradict Johan Smertenko is a work of supereroga- efficiency of centers of religious in- Great Ass( Oily" were evolved for the stifled Jewish
nity. Speak with them. They will tell you of hardship
,
It sought relief from suit
study
and
development
of
the
law.
tines.
and of patient hope. But neither hardships long borne
fluence.
tion.
ing and freedom of the soul. A,
Synagogues were established and the
nor hope long deferred has subdued them. They believe in
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themselves anti in the land. They talk of the seasons and
alk t of their flocks and of the markets.
the crops, they
Yet they are not the victims of the earth. They are still
its masters.

The distilled spirit of freedom was communicated
to Samuel. It is heady wine and too often in the pur-
suit of it we forget or neglect realities. And, in truth,
he did become intoxicated with the fruit of the vine.
freedom. Ile speaks further in an even more ecstatic
strain:

But I cannot speak about the cities and the industries
and the commerce of Palestine. I will say again I was
on a honeymoon in Palestine anti did not talk finance and
business. I did not talk of feasibility. I did not talk of
economic construction. Strange as it will sound to you, all
from the purely prac-
this seemed secondary to me, oven

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tical point of view. There are men who tell you, rightly,
that Palestine needs funds, Palestine needs men, Palestine
needs discipline. But there is one thing which they seldom
mention; the one thing that pre.iedes all these, makes them
possible, as it makes all things possible, and that thing

is love.
Is Palestine a land that car( be loved. loved intensely
and joyously and creatively? If it is this there is nothing
impossible and technical methods are trivialties. And
Palestine spoke to me of love, not of nadan.

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The Jews have loved Palestine passionately, ere-
atively, since the diaspora, but every lover on his hon-
eymoon is certain that no one has ever loved as does he.
All the amorous impulses of men have been sickly pale
affairs compared with that consuming passion which

My Heart Clamours

Nly heart craves to praise Thee,
But I am unable.
Would my understanding
Were as spacious as Solomon's.
Without it my wisdom
As yet ill suffices
For expounding Thy wonders
And Thy deeds of beneficence
Wrought for me and all mankind.
Without Thee all's hopeless.
And where is the rock
Sustaining, suspending
The weight of the world?
I am as one orphaned;
Nay. on Thee I am cast.
What then can I do
But look tot Thee. wait on Thee,
In whose hand is the spirit, .
Of all that is living.
In whose hand is the breath,
Of all the creation?

thought will he given to a plan for the
communalization of synagogues , even
as effort now is put forth to conduct
the social, philanthropic anti educa-
tional activities of the community on
a basis of economy and efficiency. If
the community is asked to finance the
major part of every drive for a syn-
actigue building fund, it should be
given an opportunity to be heard on
whether a synagogue should be built
and, if R is to be built, how.

risen, penance and fast were fel: t-
ed h• reaction—the depreciation of o
he e
p i tzthitutal
sttildyainifitheenTmalunniuil, sw

beginnings of a service and a ritual
laid. Culturally, the Torah, as the
core of a Jewish life, and, socially,
geographic segregation were the par-
allel preservatives of the people.
Upon the destruction of the Jewish
polity, Joshua lien Gamala established
elementary schools in Judaea and
Rattan Jechanan Ben Zakkai found-
ed an academy at Jaltneh. The pray-
ers were lengthened from the Sterna
to include the 19 benedictions and the
liturgy was called upon to sustain
.Jewish,life. Toward the end of the

present God. To express the spirit e,
,
the movement, a highly ecstatic to
of praying was developed. The •
his excommunicated the Chas-
Ind forbade intermarriage with
and the right to bury their dead
spite of all this opposition rah'
e
e el revitalized
in'ansuenit,sf
die w
.1.uhdaeLisim

thiasnhdriaet historic sot'
M,(te,setoeluitnion
Chivalry
that
FFORTS are being made by a corn- second century the Mishnah was com-
II
vironment are the keys to the
of American Jewish ph piled by Rabbi Judah. Academies grew
,
at
pretation of the varied phereol
r-, mitt
at Sara, Pumlieditha, Nehardea, Silhi
raise
a
fund
to
abate
the
and Narez. Rabbinic amplification of • The lesson of Jewish history i-
H a ger to
Hager which has befallen the ewi
Jsh
religion, like life, is a developan
the law with the intent of keeping the
medical men who are among the refu-
The evolution of the modern .1.
Jews a separate grofip continued, and
prayer hook from the morning h"'
gee, in the capitals anti port cities of
was committed to writing in the Tal-
Not only Are these physi-
Europe
by the addition of the 15 Nes-
practicingg their.. mud, which was compiled hy itch Ashi
t
li on bu
cians
then the evening Stems, then (I 1
profession
hut they are forced to per- c and Ilabinah in the fifth century. Ed-
e lt., ,
ucation and an ever growing spiritual
etry and philosophy of the
form menial and at times humiliating
and subsequent centuries, port],
e xpression , through ritual were the
• tasks in order to eke out an existence,
the lialakah and Haggadah, the
Preserving tenet's.
as they wait for the approach of the
tut prayers of the sixteenth cetb
. But during the-centuries that VA-
day when they may find themselves
all these were called forth by Go
lowt,1 there appeared a continually re.
amIti conditions enabling them to use
ligious needs of the Jewish petieli
curling conflict.
their knowledge in the service-of the
s
Jewisll history shows a struggle be-
the various times. Thepra yer
public. American Jewish physiciatr,
finally arranged by fit' "Maharil"
twcen two balancing forces, a preser-
,.
working in peace and achieving great-
the
many
variations
were.redu
ly both -in a scientific and material votive legalism whose symVs often
lit
lose their significance and a series of
a uniformity by the newly
sense, have an opportunity to show
movements to reinterpret Jewish life.
their fellow practitioners, in Europe
first revolt was on the part cif
,
that their.hears are warm and gen-
(To be continued next week.
—SOLOMON IAN GABIROL.
the Karaites-led by Anon Ben David.
emus.
Translated by Israel. Zangwill.

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