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OBITUARY
MORRIS I. GOLDFEDER
MRS. YETTA LEVINE
People's Creamery Co.
ARLINGTON 1000
Extends Best Wishes to the Jewish Community
for a
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CITIES GO OVER TOP
FOR AMERICAN LEGION
Five Michigan cities have already
gone over the top with their quota for
the American Legion Farad being
raised all over the United States for
the care and education of the orphans
of World War veterans, and other
Michigan cities will have filled their
quota within the next week. The
cities that have already gone over the
top with their quotas are Marquette,
Iron Mountain, Lansing,, Sault Ste.
Registration'
Registration for classes will be held Marie, Midland and Lowell.
at the clubhouka he week of t•
Oet. 5, Slunday— fTel riday, fr4.1a - 9 to "The Singing Blackbird" at
5 and 7 to 9 o'clock.
Funeral services were held on
The fall bulletin has been printed
Monday afternoon, Sept. 21, for Mrs. and may be obtained either at 89 Ro-
Yetta Levine, who died on Sunday wena street or by calling Glendale
7971. New classes are being organ-
ized and all old classes continued.
Additional classes 'will be placed on
the schedule at the request of ten
members. Classes begin Monday,
Oct. 12.
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Y. W. H. A. NOTES
HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
The regular Saturday night dances
at Temple Beth El will be resumed
Monday evening at the Bonstelle
on Saturday evening, Oct. 10. Caro- Playhouse there will be produced a
new comedy and of more than ordi-
selli's orchestra will play.
nary interest is the fact that it is by
a Detroit woman, Helen Pitts Parker
Orchestra and Choir:
Young men and young women who perhaps better known as MN. Arthur
can play any musical instrument and Maxwell Parker.
The play hears the title of "The
who are interested in the formation
of an orchestra are asked to get in Singing Blackbird," gleaning its
touch with the clubhouse, where fur- name from the title of a boat. As
ther particulars will be given them. the locale of the ploy takes place at
Also, those who are interested in the a historic estate on the New England
formation of a choir are asked to oast and one of the characters is a
rare sea character, Abe the title is
communicate with the Y.
particularly pertinent. is a typical
MRS. YETTA LEVINE
anfamily'
life, but
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morning at her late residence, 266 Telephone Company
parts from any
tou Ae
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Garfield avenue. Interment was at
predecessor.
Each
of
the
seven
char-
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3,700,000
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Spend
Machpelah Cemetery. Rabbis Judah
actors. in the play are of equal im -
tensions in Michigan.
L...Levin, A. M. Hershman and Joseph
portance in the telling of the story
Eisenman officiated.
At the regular quarterly meeting Miss Bonstelle will play the role of
Mrs. Levine, who was 57 years of of the board of directors of Michigan Cynthia Warrenden, the wife, assisted
Young, ,
age, is survived by three duaghters,
Donald Cameron, Wlter
Mayme and Flora Levine and Mrs. Bell Telephone Company held in De- bydwin
R. Wolfe, Wa alterSherwin
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troit
on
Sept.
17,
estimates
were
ap-
Arthur Harris; two sons, David A.
roved covering extension to the Edna Archer Crawford and Carolyn
and Samuel S. Levine; two brothers, p
lant in the total amount of $3,705,- Humphreys.
Alex I. and Samuel M. Reichstein, 000. Of this total $1,400,000 is for
and three sisters, Mrs. Louis
If 'experience could .teach the
and Mks Celia Reichstein of Detroit Detroit, $355,000 is for Grand Rapids stones of London would be wiser than
and Mrs. Morris Goodson of London: and the balance of $1,950,000 is for its wisest men.
Ont. the rest of the state.
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to the present day-5686 years in
all.
The Talmudic rabbis, however, In
studying the first chapter of Genesis
came to the conclusion that the Bible
speaks only of the present world, that
there had existed many worlds prior
to this one, which had been destroyed.
A careful grammatical study of verse
31: "And God saw everything that
he made and behold it was good," led
them to interpret this to mean that
"everything that lie made" tells of
previous creations which with their
inhabitants were not satisfactory, and
hence were destroyed. The present
world, however, in comparison to
these was satisfactory. (Midrash Ra-
bah.)
The previous world was destroyed
leaving the earth void of its inhabit-
ants and everything upon it, except
the essential elements of water, fire
and air. They concluded this from
the fact that in the story of creation
nothing is mentioned of the manner
these chief elements came into being.
"If these elements had not already
been present, why does the second
verse tell us that 'the spirit of God
was waving upon the face of the wa.
tens' without first saying when water
was created," they argued. Of other
things which had been non-existent,
the Bible tells us, God said, "it shall
come into being, and it came.' The
RABBI JOSEPH THUMIN -
literal interpretation of the Hebrew
the opinion of the Orthodox Rab- words "to ho vivohu" in verse two,
binate on this matter. I will now ex- which is commonly translated as
plain 'according . to the wise of the "without form and void," strength-
Talnhud the Biblical passages dealing ened their conclusions. "Tohu" means
"void," "vivohu" is a combination of
with creation. ,
It may surprise one to her that two words, "boi" and "hu," the lit-
there is little or no conflict in the eral meaning of which is "in it was
interpretations of the rabbis 55 based the containing." (Targum Jonathan
on the study of the Bible and the and Jerishalme.) From this they de-
theories of today as based' on scien- duced that the essential elements re-
tific findings. In fact, all the recent mained as they were in the previous
discoveries of the paleontologist and world fitted for the natural uphuild-
nig by the spirit of God, "the spirit
tend.
geolo
and theories held by the ancient of God was waving upon the face of
rabbis. If a rabbi of the Talmud were the waters." (Targum Jonathan and
confronted with an historic .natural Jerishalme.) That nothing was de-
museum of today with its fossils and stroyed in heaven they gathered from
other displays and evidences of 'pre- the fact that while the Bible tells
historic times he would probably cry of the state of the earth before cre-
out: "Aha! Here is convincing proof ation, nothing is vouchsafed us of the
that our interpretation of. the Holy condition of heaven. From a literal
Torah was true and divinely in- study of verse two, "and it was day
spired." Were this ancient scholar and it was night: . they concluded
introduced to the leading authorities that the system of night and day
of biology, geology, Zoology and an- caused by the revolution of the earth
thropology, and were he shown all hod not been abolished with the de-
their findings by which they prove struction of the previous world, and
that this world had existed many that this prenomenon made its ap-
thousands of years before prehistoric pearance the first day. The literal
times, during which great collisions meaning Of the verb used in verse
took plact , , during which time conti- two, "wahi" is not "it has become"
nents and islands appeared and dis- but "existed from before." In this
appeared, mountains destroyed, dur- manner they answered the oft-asked
ing which time races came into being, OuestiOn "how could then be night
changed and perished, etc., etc., he and day before night and day were
would lift his hands to heaven and created. (Midrash Rabah 2:10.)
repeat the traditional blessing used
Their version of creation tends to-
when great wisdom is discovered by ward an entirely new explanation.
man. "Praised be H6, 0 Eternaii, our "In the beginning God created" lets
God, who has given of His wisdom to us know that in the very beginning of
his pious." lie would exclaim: "Now all thingi, God created Heaven and
I see how great is the wisdom God Earth. 'the Hebrew word "Es" in-
has shown the ancient rabbis. That forms us that the first universe was
which is known to science in the complete with all its planets and
twentieth century had been revealed stars. The next sentence, "Vay-
to and predicted by the wise of the hooretz hoyso," describes the chaotic
Talmud because of their literal study condition of the world after its utter
annihilation. Between these two
'Of the Bible."
Let me remark before I give their stages millions of years may bane
, interpretations that the, Talmudists elapsed.
lent superhuman effort and energy to
Insight as to the civilization of the
their zealous study and close examin- inhabitants of some world before this
ation of the Biblical texts. dealing one is gleaned by the wise of the
with the creation. In fact, they re- Talmud by interpreting a certain
garded this portion of Genesis as verse in the Bible to the effect that
especial revelation which they con- the Torah was made to be delivered
sidered the essential part of the To- to the 996th generation of the in-
rah, and called it "Maaseh Bore- habitants of the world before this
shith," "the Story of Creation." To one. But because they were of a low
them, the rest of the Bible was a degree of civilization they could not
minor -part. (Talmud •Lukah 28.) understand it and the present world
And because they felt that this study was created and the Torah given to
required especial spiritual qualities, the 26th generation. (Talmud Sha-
they did not entrust the teachings of bath 88.). The Talmud also men-
"Shire Torah," "the secret of the To- tions that there exist evidences of the
rah," as they called it, to the ordinary last world. (Talmud Chagigi 14.1
rabbis and scholars. They reserved
"Zohar," the great mystic book
the study of this phase of the Bible written 1200 years before Columbus,
to elderly rabbis who possessed spe- in which is stated the existence of
cial virtues and were endowed with an undiscovered portion of the world,
great wisdoin and divine inspitation. now America, makes the definite as-
And even to these reverent scholars sertion that 25 successive worlds ex-
they delivered only "Roshe Perokib," isted prior to this one. He further
which cohsisted of hints and glimpses offers the interesting belief that each
that could only be gotten when the world was destroyed to make place
'mind was in a sublime and holy dbl. for a better one, with ultimate perfec-
position. (Talmud Chagiga 14.) This liOn as the goal. Nor is the present
accounts for the fact that the 36' world, according to It, the last. This
books of the Talmud and 98 different world will never reach perfection. It
: Midrashim in our possession„tOday are hints the creation of another world.
commentaries and interpretations of His 'basis for this belief is the fact
words and even letters of what to that the first letter in the opening
them was the lesser part of the Torah word of the Bibe is "Beth," which is
and of what they considered their im- the second letter of the Hebrew
portant teachings "Maaseh Bert- alphabet.
tihlth" they revealed but little.. Not-
The foregoing shows that the di-
withstanding they let drop here and vine worlds of the Torah, when prop-
there an occasional hint or two in the erly understood as the Talmudic rab-
Talmud, Midrashim and Zohar of bis by their thorough and literal
their theories and beliefs with refer- study were enabled to understand
ence to the age of, the world.
them are eternally true and immune
First it is neces'ary to understand to mortal attack.
that it is clear and certain that the
time (the age of the present world
is 5686 years) periods allotted in Twenty-third Week of Popular
the Bible to the historical events re-
Comedy, "Abie's Irish Rose,"
lated therein together with that
Will Start at Garrick.
period of years that has elapsed since
then to total 5686 years. According
The
Twenty-third week of the p0P-
to the Bible, from Adam to Sheth and
Enoch to the flood Is 1656 years, to ular Hebrew-Irish comedy by Anne
be-
392
more,
from
Nichols.
"Abie's Irish Rose," will
the birth of hum is
then to the deliverance out of Egypt gin at the Garrick Theater next Sun-
sold
692 years elapsed, 40 years in the day night.Seats are still being
the play
wilderness, 490 more to the estab- for an indefinite booking of
lishment of the first Temple, 410 and Detroit bids fair to emulate other
more to the building of the second, large cities in keeping this successful
70 years to its destruction, then on drama on the stage.
One the first day of the month of
Tishri we celebrate New Years Day
as the traditional day on which 5686
years ago the creation of the world
took place. During the recent bitter
discussions in which the scientists
were accused of conflicting with the
Bible and Religion, I was asked time
and again to express my opinion and
Bonstelle Next Week Is by
Mrs. Parker of Detroit.
Dances:
1
—
The Age of the World Accord-
ing to the Talmud and Science
Sincere Wishes for a Happy New Year!
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