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May 14, 1926
Sivan 1, 5686
Hope and Despair.
No two words characterize more adequately the
emotional state of the Jewries of Russia and Poland,
according to the reports of James N. Rosenberg, who is
now visiting there.
Ile pictures these two countries with their provoca-
tive contrasts in the :ollo•ing words:
The picture of Jewish life in Poland is one of gloom
and despair. Over 75 per cent of the Jewish workingmen
in the Republic of Poland are unemployed. Business is
at a standstill. Not less than 100,000 Jewish children are
in dire need. I am not an alarmist. By habit acquired in
the course of many years, I demand adequate evidence.
With this state of mind, I am obliged to admit that at least
one-fourth of the 3,000,000 Jews in Poland are in urgent
want. The situation beggars words.
A different picture is represented by the Jewish life
in Russia. I am making this statement at the Berlin office
of the Joint Distribution Committee, where I see on the
walls oil paintings in brilliant and beautiful colors by
the Russian Jewish artist, Rybak, whom Dr. Joseph A.
Rosen invited to the Ukraine to paint what he saw there.
Here are the pictures: On sunlit, glowing fields, Jewish
youths are driving a tractor; Jewish girls are ploughing
the fields; old Jews driving wagons loaded with hay; flags
flying over little huts; a 1-year-old Jewish girl is riding
on a horse; old bearded Jews are mending a harrow.
In 1917, 53,000 Jews were tilling the soil in Russia.
Today 120,000 Jews are dwellers in these fertile fields.
It must be remembered that Mr. Rosenberg is not
a Bolshevik, nor has he any special axe to grind for
any special group. He is in Europe primarily to find
out the facts so that his American confreres may know
exactly the conditions under which they now live and
the prospects for change and improvement.
Confirmation of all Mr. Rosenberg says comes from
that noted Russian lawyer Urrison, who recently made
an extended trip among the colonists. He found that
the Intellectual and cultural problems were just as
much the concern of the people as was the problem of
adaptation to a new mode of life.
Poland, on the other hand, presents, a uniform pic-
ture of poignant misery. All accounts of the stark
tragedy seem to agree even to the minute details. And
while the Russian problem is essentially an economic
one, the Polish is shot through with so many poiltical
and racial ingredients that the whole matter presents
a rather confused and almost insoluble mess.
Certainly there is an immediacy to the Polish situa-
tion that for the present Russia is placed in a secondary
place, but just the same with American aid it will take
but a short time for a sound, healthy Jewry to emerge
in Russia, while Polish Jewry will stagger along under
the burdens which a chauvinistic, reactionary, anti-
Semitic regime chooses to impose.
The most irreconcilable enemy of the Russian
scheme must admit that there is a measure of equality
and a lack of artificial discrimination in Russia unparal-
leled anywhere in Europe. It cannot be denied that all
so-called anti-revolutionary groups from the extremest
left to the Zionist are treated abominably, yet the vast
masses of Russian workers are treated with a consider-
ation that recognizes that the laborer is worthy of his
hire.
, The Jews of Russia are making every effort to be
placed in the category of useful and necessary workers
on the land and in the industries. Every dollar loaned
or given to further this constructive enterprise will
enable them to become a sound, integral part of Rus-
sian life, whose influence is bound to be felt among
themselves as well as in the broader circles of Russia.
Generous American Jewry must by now have the
feeling that it is doing a splendid piece of work in fur-
thering the land settlement plan advocated by David
A. Brown, Dr. Joseph Rosen and others.
Does He Speak for Zionist Organization?
At the time the newspapers printed the story of the
renunciation of the rabbinate by James Waterman
Wise, he was in the city of Minneapolis as a substitute
for his father, who was scheduled to speak for the
United Palestine Appeal.
It was entirely proper that the position of the Zion-
ist Organization be learned, inasmuch as Mr. Wise was.
for the one meeting at least, representing the Zionist
movement. In a statement issued by Emanuel Neu-
mann, national director of the appeal, he said : "With
regard to Mr. Wise's renunciation of the rabbinate, he
expresses, of course, his personal viewpoint, which is
essentially out of accord with the spirit of the Zionist
movement and its underlying principles."
We ask, in all candor, is this really the official po-
sition of the Zionist Organization? Must one in order
to be a member subscribe to definite theological
credos? If such is actually the case, how could Max
Nordau, whose body was just taken to Palestine, have
been a leader and member of the organization if re-
nunciation of the Jewish religion is essentially out of
accord with the spirit of the Zionist movement?
Anyone who knows anything of the writings of Max
Nordau knows that he was fiat a believer in the Jewish
religion. Furthermore, when his daughter, Maxa Nor-
dau, visited Detroit she told an audience at Emanuel
synagogue that her father participated in a religious
fit mice in Madrid, Spain, despite the fact that he had
no religious beliefs.
The reason we select Nordau is because he has be-
come a patron saint, whose body is removed to Pales-
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tine. During his life this incisive, cosmopolitan intel-
lectual was one of the most respected and admired
among the Zionist leaders. As a matter of fact, Herzl
and Nordau were always spoken of together by all who
made reference to Zionist leadership.
And then, too, one may close ones eyes as much as
one chooses, but the fact still remains that many' of the
chaluzim do not have religious beliefs. Does this fact
impair the quality of their splendid social achievements
in Palestine ?
Is this washing of the hands a defense reaction? Is
this a move to make amends for the fine action taken
at the time Dr. Stephen S. Wise was attacked?
Can one not work for the upbuilding of Palestine,
for the creation of a cultural life, unless he accepts the
Jewish religion? Are the left Zionists not Zionists?
If Mr. Neumann would take a census of Palestine with
the view of ascertaining the religious views of the 100,-
000 who have come there since the Balfour Declara-
tion, he would discover that many did not belong there
if his dictum is the basis for admission.
As for Mr. Wise, he will in all probability continue
to work for the Jewish people and Zionism despite the
implicit excommunication; which reads: "It was never
contemplated that Mr. Wise should deliver a series of
lectures for the United Palestine Appeal and, in view
of the statement that has appeared, such a lecture en-
gagement is out of the question."
If Mr. Neumann really speaks for the Zionist move-
ment, many of the courageous and ardent spirits will
be alienated.
The Supreme Kingdom.
The love of high sounding names is still strong with
E. Y. Clarke, the promoter and publicity agent, who put
over the Klan. His latest stunt is the "Supreme King-
dom" an organization to fight evolution.
From all indications, his present organization will
not wear masks, but it will have a regalia supplement-
ing the thrilling, ecstacy provoking titles. Think how
important a poor, dumb often hen-pecked male must
feel when he can put on the regalia of a potentate and
be addressed by still poorer, dumber and worse hen-
pecked morons, as Prime Minister, Chancellor, Duke,
Baron, or whateirer high faluting titles they may choose
to give themselves. The repressed individual with a
sense of unappreciated genius may then realize all the
dream states of kingship and mastery. He may strut
and command in a make believe world and get the thrill
which Mr. Clarke promises he may get out of a dose
of old time religion a la Billy Sunday.
Think of the joy John Brown will get out of all this
mock authority, after he has been silenced and ridi-
culed by his fellow workers, children and wife. In the
kingdom where his will is law, no one may challenge
his wisdom or discretion.
Surely E. Y. Clarke whose whole life is one pub-
licity stunt after another, knows his yockels and mo-
rons. He, therefore, offers them an organization with
a heaven storming purpose but does not forget to play
upon the vanities and pouter pigeon characteristics of
his mob.
This time he avoids one of the mistakes made in
the Klan organization, but yet that could not be avoid-
ed in the Klan inasmuch as the leaders could get their
dupes only on the basis of 100 per cent Protestant white
Americanism which was at the time a living fact in
American life. But with the decline of inflamed chau-
vinism it is no longer necessary to make the appeal on
the basis of national or racial origins.
If one wants proof of the decline of Klanism and
Nordicism, this new order offers the best available. The
very promoter of the Klan is forming an organization
which admits Jews and Catholics. It is hardly possible
that these very Jews and Catholics who menaced the
very foundations of the country have changed in such
a short time. It must be that Clarke has discovered
that they are not the danger he had imagined they
were, but we rather incline to the belief tha the has
learned that the dupes and morons no longer get a thrill
out of being anti-Jewish and anti-Catholics, and refuse
to pay for the Klan privilege any longer. He finds a
new thrill for them in old time religion, concentrating
the attack upon evolution. Now the Jews and Catho-
lics may join with the holy crusaders to annihilate
evolution, The Jew and Catholic are now sanctified
and may engage in battle at the side of the select of
the Lord in the battle against enlightenment and know-
ledge. Lovely picture all this. We are amazed at the
insolence of these people. Can one imagine an insult
to ones intelligence transcending this. Just a short
time back these very men who lived on racial hate and
bitterness, whose mendacity was so transparent that
every one could see through it, have the cheek to ask
those who were victimized to join with them in another
campaign of rancor and dissension.
But yet unprincipled scoundrels who can make cap-
ital and enrich themselves out of stirring up race hat-
reds and national jealousies have no sense of human
values. If one business of malice fails why try another,
is their policy.
We are hopeful that the Supreme Kingdom will be
an abortion. America has had its debauches and
probably wants a rest and besides kingdoms with all
their trashy trappings are being discarded everywhere.
MY PEOPLE
By JACOB V. ARIEL
Could you look 'neath the surface of my heart.
You would see there a depth of ardent zeal
To accomplish something for my people's weal ;
Not only to perform my own hard part
But teach others the science and the art
To build our people's ruins, its wounds to heal,
To make its dreams of future glory real,
And give it on its triumph-march a start.
0. Israel, my thoughts are e'er of thee;
On thy visions and hopes I daily brood,
And dream I see thee still from Mount Sinai
Of Love and Right, proclaiming God's decree.
0, how I would serve thee, and for thy good
Live; or, command it, and I'll gladly die!
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Jewish Campaign
Morgenthau Says United Jewish Gm
paign Quota Should Hare Been
$75,000,000.
"The tremendous economic crisis
in Eastern and Central Europe may,
I fear, lead to some tragic outbreak
—and the Jew will again, as in the
past, be made the scapegoat," de-
clared the former ambassador, draw-
ing on his diplomatic experience.
"The only way in which a new trag-
edy, a shocking pogrom, can be for-
stalled is, if by our action here we
demonstrate to the whole world. that
the Jews of America are standing
solidly behind their people abroad--
not merely with lip-service but with
money."
Former Ambassador Morgenthau's
address, in part, war as follows:
"The thing that I observed more
than anything else in my trip around
the world is that America is being
watched by the whole world as to
how we are going to conduct our-
selves during this extraordinary era
of prosperity through which we are
living. They are watching now how
we spend our money. They are not
watching our little excesses. They
do not care whether we are spending
too much on ourselves or whether we
are engaging in jazz and other things,
but they are watching to see what
sort of characters we are developing.
They want to know whether we are
going to represent our best in this
era of prosperity or ignore and disre-
gard the wants, the tremendous need
for help of the whole world. I have
been asked what was the reason that
the Jew differed from all other peo-
ple. It is because the Jew has not
failed to hear the cry of his needy
brethren. My friends, we are port
of the American people, and one of
the ways in which I believe we can
best serve this country is to show
to the rest of our fellow citizens that
we are heeding the cry of our needy
brothers in Central and Eastern Eu-
rope.
"I have maintained from the be-
ginning, since I was in Poland, that
the Jewish problem can be settled
nowhere else except where the Jews
live. For the Jews of Eastern and
Central Europe it cannot be settled
except in Eastern and Central Eu-
rope. The Jews in Poland, Roumania
and Russia are the ones that need
help. We are undertaking here to
try and give them some help, but
what we are trying to give them is
absolutely insignificant. We are try-
ing to raise $5,000,000 a year to
help 7,000,000 or more people. That
is less than $1 per person—that is
about three (lays' support. Thirty-
three cents can support them one
day.
"Just imagine how little we are
trying to do for them and imagine
how we are rolling in wealth. Just
think of the opportunities that you
have had in this country and also re-
member that we have left behind us
some blood relatives. I cannot un-
derstand why the Jews of America
haven't risen to the heights in view
of the conditions that exist. Much
more should be done than we are at-
tempting to do.
"I was one of the 24 men that
President Wilson appointed in 1917
to formulate the plans for the Red
Cross. The evening before our meet-
ing in Washington we had a confer-
ence of seven men. When I told
them that evening we ought to raise
$50,000,000 they ridiculed it. They
said 'It is ridiculous—it cannot be
done.' I was persistent. They said
to us: 'Put it before the committee
next day.' I got up and spoke and
John Wanamaker was sitting to my
right and another very rich man to
my left. They both thought it was
impossible and I said to them: 'Here
sits a Jew—Julius Rosenwald—who
has given $1,000,000,' and I said 'You
ought to be ashamed of yourselves
if you to not undertake to raise $50,-
000,000,' When they elected the
chairman, Henry Davison, they told
him: llorgenthau has made a foolish
proposition to raise $50,000,000.
The most any of us considered is
$25,000,000.' Mr. Davison said, 'Yes,
it was foolish; you should have said
$100,000,000.' In the end we raised
$107,000,000.
"My friends, I think we ought to
raise not $15,000,000 in this cam-
paign but we ought to raise a fund
of from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000,
and it can be done if it is gone after
properly, and for this reason: Yes-
terday a gentleman came to see me
from Poland. He arrived only the
(lay before. He told me that the dan-
ger of a tremendous upheaval in Cen-
tral and Eastern Europe is greater
today than it ever was. He said
somebody will have to be made the
scapegoat of the fearful conditions
which prevail there. That will be the
Jew. Nothing can counteract it ex-
cept an absolute showing on the part
of the American Jew that they are
ready to stand by their brethren not
merely with 'lip service' but with
some big powerful organization with
almost unlimited resources that is go-
ing to help these people extricate
themselves from a condition which
has never been so bad as it is today.
You cannot do it in this sort of way.
I.et us go ahead and do this $15,000,-
005 job with a vim, but I believe
that the men and women who are
raising this money should, when they
are through, study the bigger prob-
lem. We are going to save a few
people with this fund. We are go-
ing to alleviate conditions a little.
But this tremendous problem de-
mands extraordinary remedies. Why
cannot the Jews of America get to-
gether and say: 'We will spare 5 per
cent of our resources.' I think I can
guess, without any calculation, that
5 per cent of our resources would be
a great deal more than $200,000,-
000."
The results of the canvass at the
end of Thursday's rally, it was an-
nounced by Vice-Chairman David M.
Bressler, have brought the grand to-
tal for New York City up to $3,400,.
000.
This includes $500,000 from
Brooklyn. Hugh Grant Straus, trees-
arer of the Brooklyn division, which
has a quota of $1,200,000, reported
that since last Sunday night, when
Brooklyn contributed $425,000, an
additional $75,000 has been collected.
The appearance of Mrs. Jacob II.
Schiff, honorary chairman of the
women's division, created 'great en-
thusiasm among the workers at the
rally. She was given a tremendous
ovation when presented by Mr. Bress-
ler.
An outstanding contribution an-
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IV, r-
Milford Stern Discusses Palestine
S.
(Continued From Last Week)
When I inquired why there were
so many small candy and newspaper
stands and soda fountains on the
sidewalks, I was informed that the
City Council had decided to issue no
more such licenses because it was
realized that ghetto standards must
be avoided. And indeed that is the
danger, for it is such an aggravated
condition so pitifully apparent in the
old Jewish section of Jerusalem,
Haifa, Jaffa, Tiberias and the other
Palestinian cities.
It is unnecessary to relate in de-
tail my journey from Jaffa to Tul-
keren, thence to Jenin, where a door
opens up between the Judean Hills
and reveals to the traveler a dream
world, the glorious Valley of Jezreel.
here thousands of acres ore owned
by Jews and dotted with Jewish colo-
nies. Mulch, Balforia, Merhavia,
Nahalal, each has a fascinating story
to tell, but time does not permit one
to go into detail.
The city of Tiberias, the ancient
school of Talmudical scholars, nestles
along the shore of Lake Galilee. A
modern hotel surrounded by gardens
utilizing the age-old medicinal hot
springs would make that ancient
shore as popular for health seekers
as Mount Clemens or Wiesbaden. A
little south lies Kinereth, and where
the Jordan emerges from Galilee I
,ow beautiful Dagonia A and B. To
the north of Tiberias the colony of
Nligdal is being developed under the
management of the gracious and cap-
able Gliken. These settlements have
attained the stage of self-support,
which is gratifying progress consider-
ing all the difficulties.
I would like to say here paren-
thetically that Palestine has in my
opinion marvelous possibilities as a
world tourist center. Travelers who
go there now do so at a cost of cer-
tain physical discomfort, and thou-
sands go yearly. If proper prepara-
tions were made for their reception
and adequate accommodations pro-
vided, it is fair to state that it would
become one of the most attractive
tourist objectives in the world, and
this source of income would bring
a large measure of prosperity to the
country. The Holy Land really pos-
sesses in tourist trade a glorious op-
portunity, which till now it has in
nowise exploited.
He must have a callous soul who
travels through this land and fails
to be deeply affected by the work of
the Jews in Palestine. You and I
have seen what a wilderness the Jews
have to work in, the nakedness of the
hills, the ruin and destruction abroad
in the land, the work of vandalism
through the ages. On Mount Carmel
there are more trees seemingly than
in all Palestine put together. And
yet these naked, bald hills were once
literally covered with verdure if we
are to believe Scripture. A treeless
land is perfectly disheartening. When
I saw the new cypress forest planted
by Jews in Nahnlal my heart leaped
with joy. There are many such mar-
vels of re-construction on every
hand.
The one thing that most vividly
impressed me is the strong, unsubdu-
able spirit of the pioneering chalut-
zim, their will to conquer a desolate
land and restore the richness that
once abounded. The young men and
women sing at their work. They have
heroic souls. They do not mind be-
ing deprived of all but the simplest
primitive physical comforts. No peo-
ple on earth would undertake to sub-
due and rebuild this land except a
people possessed by a great senti-
ment, and only the Jews have that
sentiment.
In the early cool, crisp morning
after I had slept on Mount Carmel,
I thought of the political situation.
In the year 1926 the land of Israel is
inhabited and owned by Moslem
Arabs, administered and governed by
Christian Great Britain, and under-
going a remarkable restoration and
development by the cosmpolitan Jews.
Here is a religious triangle, if you
please, a correlation or a conflict, de-
pending on the way you choose to
view it. Before 1914 the Moslems
were in exclusive control and what-
ever privileges Jew and Christian en-
joyed were simply by the grace of
Saladin and his successors.
The war made Great Britain mas-
ter of the situation. In order to
strengthen her status quo, Britain has
invited and is encouraging the in-
tensive colonization of Palestine by
Jews. Her wise diplomats discern
there is a resentment undercurrent
in the Eastern world against Eng-
land's recently acquired political con-
trol of the Holy Land. Therefore
they desire to plant Jews here and
make of them a buffer influence—
the Jews, who of all the people of
the earth hake no international one
to grind and who most eternally and
everlastingly feel under obligations
to Great Britain. When the Jews
reach the number of 500,000 or more
in Palestine, they will provide the
antidote to counteract the Arabic and
Moslem resentment. With the Jews
thus established in the Holy Land,
Britain's control of the Suez Canal
and her position in the Near East will
be enormously stabilized and assured.
We must not fail to note that the
Christian world has seen the oppor-
tunity for Christian dominance in the
Holy land and rejoices in it, while
at the same time it realizes the ne-
cessity for sharing the privileges with
the Jews. So the Christian world in
its wisdom has allocated to Great
Britain the task of molding the po-
litical destiny of Palestine and col-
lectively through the mandate of the
League of Nations and individually
has approved and ratified the Balfour
Declaration, which constitutes Brit-
ain's invitation to the Jews of the
world to build a home in l'alestine.
A wise choice Great Britain—be-
cause she alone possesses the apti-
tude, the patience, the wisdom and
experience necessary for the success-
NI handling of foreign peoples and
foreign problems. Witness France's
failure in Syria and our own mess
In the Virgin Islands. Its superior
merit has thus given to the British
Foreign Office the triple-barreled op-
portunity and duty of serving Britain,
the Christian world and the Jews si-
multaneously.
I am not one who sympathizes with
the nationalistic pretensions of most
Zionists. Theirs is a. sentimental
Idealism incapable of realization,
The Balfour Declaration invites Jews
to make Palestine a national hom
without insinuating that the Jews ar
ever to have governmental control
You may be sure that the super
Zionistic Jews with their extreme no
tionalistic aspirations do not i:. ■ the
His Majesty's government, ii,•r did
they worry the Turks durin,- th
Turkish regime. And yet I ciiii se
where those aspirations serve a s cry
useful purpose. They are of nreat
est assistance to the Zionist Opzuni a.
ation in securing colonists ar•I
taining the money wherewith h. , olo
nize. We must admit that lb na-
tionalistic ideal has served to
tens of thousands of Jews in Pales-
tine, who perhaps otherwise
Ould
not be interested, and to induce thou-
sands of Jews to emigrate to the Holy
Land. Things of fancy are powerful
motive forces and indirectly or (p.
redly work wonders in practicid life.
There is altogether too much 111.5
and clamor made over the qui.sii on
of Jewish nationalism. Too many
of our people are scared to death
about it and see only dire calamity
RA the result of what is, after all,
only a philosophical probability. Dur-
ing the past few days I was greatly
surprised to meet on this steamer
Jewish travelers from European coun-
tries as well as from the United
States who advanced that old
nut of an objection which I have bn);
ago considered relegated to the
realm of innocuous desuetude. They
argue vehemently that were a Jewish
nation to be established in Palest:in•
it would result in the lamentable des.
tractionof the position of the Jews
attained in Germany, England, Amer-
ica and other enlightened countries,
because, forsooth, it would give new
ammunition to the anti-Semites and
enable them to say: "Now that you
have your own nation and country
and government, we may consider
you only as foreigners. You are
strangers and we are warranted in
treating you as such and in expelling
you it it so pleases us." Just as if
the Jews had not been persecuted
and ill-treated and driven out during
the Diaspora of 20 centuries even
though they have not had Palestine.
It's a mighty weak argument and
ought to be consigned to the limbo
of forgotten things.
The chance of becoming a com-
pletely autonomous Jewish nation is
so infinitesimally small that it would
be a miracle. And if the impossible
did happen, it would not be such a
bad thing proviued our people did not
let that fact defeat their purpose.
The real dangers in my estimation
would be the union of church and
state, which kills freedom of con-
science, and the political complica-
tions that in all probability would
arise, for without a powerful pro-
tector and mother like Great Britain,
tiny Judea would be quickly swal-
lowed up in the maw of Moslem Asia.
Indeed, ladies and gentlemen, I see
a marvelous advantage in permitting
Jewish genius to develop unhampered
under free conditions in the sancti-
fied atmosphere of ancient Israel un-
der the benign political protection of
enlightened Great Britain. Undis-
turbed by distracting influences, Jew-
ish genius may possibly create a self-
sufficient, self-supporting, indepen-
dent, individualistic Jewish life and
culture, art and morale, an inspira-
tion and source of pride to all Jew-
ries and a delightful revelation of
Jewish creative ability to all the
world. Who knows, perhaps from
such a source may again raise a great
ethical concept that will surprise and
enrich and inspire all humanity as
did the great gift of Abraham and
the sons of Abraham.
Already what has been accom-
plished in Palestine by our pe,mle is
cause for rejoicing for every Jew.
Since I have gone through the land
I feel a keen sense of regret that I
did not realize before what a groat
work was being done, and if I sin not
mistaken, those of you who have been
there and looked with open eyes feel
the same way about it. Is it possible
that we have been living too long on
past glories? Perhaps the time hue
arrived for us, who have ever been
accounted a unique people, to make
another great contribution to human-
ity. Perhaps the world needs that
Jews should make this unique experi-
ment of the twentieth century.
I believe that there is .a proper
place for every kind of Jew and Ju-
daism from the super-Orthodox to the
super-Liberal; each is necessary, and
the Jew should be tolerant tuwitri
his own if he would expect tolerance
from the world. Therefore, in judg-
ing Palestine and the Zionists,
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SHABUOTH
The cycle of the festivals in '• '•
Jewish calendar which begins in 1h.
fall with the New Year and the P.c.'
of Atonement will close on Weilio
day, May 19, with the festival of Si.. ,
huoth or the Feast of Weeks. It
celebrated at the fiftieth day after
Passover, the intervening days being
called the Days of Counting or the
Days of Omer or Sheaf-bearing. The
latter term takes us back to Om,
early days when this religious fei.-
tival, like most others, was a farmer's
festival. This early character of the
feast is shown in the injunctions for
its observance as found in the Bible.
"Seven weeks shalt thou number
from the time when thou puttest the
sickle to the corn, and- then thou shalt
keep the Feast of Weeks unto the
Eternal, Thy God." Deut. xxi, 9.
And Lev. xxiii, 15-17, enjoins that
"ye shalt count from the day
brought the sheaf of the wave-offer-
ing seven complete weeks."
Later, as again happens with most
festivals originally connected with
the soil, a historical significance was
given to the feast. The Giving of
the I.aw on Mount Sinai was acrihe.1
to that date, the sixth day of Sivan,
and added new sanctity to it. As
Passover was the feast of the physi-
cal redemption of Israel, so the Feast
of Weeks became the feast of the
consecration of a free people to the
Moral Law.
A new sanctity and appeal has
been added to Shabuoth when it be-
came the Day of Confirmation of tr!
Jewish youth to the faith of the'.`
fathers, when the young men aro.
women of Israel renew the ancient
pledge of allegiance, with the words,
"We will do and hearken."
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