4 ! iitEilerwriAnisst (km ICLE PAGE FOUR OBITUARY MORRIS I. GOLDFEDER MRS. YETTA LEVINE People's Creamery Co. ARLINGTON 1000 Extends Best Wishes to the Jewish Community for a 1 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. — of the -- 9025 CARDONI AVE. 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 de morning at her late residence, 266 Telephone Company parts from any tou Ae ' w t ith a Of touch Garfield avenue. Interment was at predecessor. Each of the seven char- r Ex- I o 3,700,000 f $ 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 E 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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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! 30:44* S. 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