Allierfralf y ewith periodical Center CUPTON AMU - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO PAGE ELEVEN rtlp/ATK.OrliousstafRONIGIE "LE SHONOH TOVAH TIKOSEVO" AT NEW YEAR'S THRESHOLD By RABBI MOSES FISCHER By RABBI A. M. ASHINSKY ANN11111.11111111516111114666116166 . .i:011,7661677011,0III.167n7:716676;44060077006110 SEASON'S GREETINGS. • We Wish All Our Jewish Friends and Patrons a Happy and Prosperous Nett Year. 0 e 0 % 0 e 0 % 0 0 % Hergendroeder Incorporated DODGE BROTHERS e , ' e 0 0 Approved Sales and Service. GRAHAM BROTHERS TRUCKS • 0 % 0 e 0 '; 0 • 0 ; 0 0 0 14615 E. Jefffferson Ave. lit11011. Lenox 4400 MIH ININIMIUMM il lieittilitilM112291111LPIMMI lli nAllIfECIL IO ARIE011071113 11113 021 r. Season's Greetings. e 0 0 0 ( 0 0 WAYNE TOOL CO. 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Suggests a Telephone Night for the Young Folks Away at School Two distinct formulas represent the %rording and We arc approaching the "Yomim Ilanoroitn," the phrasing of New Year greetings: one of which, "Le Shonoh Torah Tikosevo," is the Jewish New Year's greeting as extended to each other by the children of the immortalpeople at the eve of our great Rosh Ilashonah feast ; the other, "A happy New Year," is the adopted formula of felicitation as exchanged at the threshold of the civil new year. The difference between these two formulas of greeting goes deeper than • mere exchange in literary style and phraseology. Studying with psychological insight and earnest thoughtfulness, it is not hard to trace beneath the respective phraseologies of both greetings two totally different conceptions of human happiness, of the ways and means to achieve it, and of the art of transforming personal happiness into blessedness for larger circles and groups of men. "Happy New Year" is the wish Jews and Gentiles extend to each other and their fellowmen at the mid- night hour of the clear starlit snow-covered winter night. when the stroke of the twelfth hour ushers in a new civil year. The proposition is in general a shal- low one, without height and depth, without philosophy or poetry, without an attempt to understand and com- prehend of what happiness consists. No reference is made in the Nett Year greeting to bringing human happiness in organic contact with the spiritual, ethical and physical qualities of man. No venture is made to view happiness as the climax and final sum of human effort and endeavor directed toward perfection and unfolding of all the inate powers of man. Ilappy New Year! Happiness grows and ripens, falls in the laps of man by some good fortune without drawing its substance and nourishment from root, branch or tree. Like meteor-stone resplendent in fiery luster and beauty it illuminates the distant horizon and falls into the portion of the happy son of fortune without spir- itual preparation and toilsome effort on his part. How different is the conception of happiness and the means to attain it which the Jew expresses in his New Year's greeting for happiness. "Le Shonoh Torah Tikosevo." "Be.written up for a good year." The eery phraseology of the words makes tutyay with the notion :v if happiness would but be a casualty upon which the human wayfarer happens to strike. The metaphor "Ile written," indicates and suggests human toil and effort as primary conditions to attain happiness. Writ- ing and book are the emblems of concerted human effort of the noblest product of men. Happiness is not the gift of a midsummer night dream by a fairy but is the final sum of man's spiritual. ethical and physical qualities. There is no happiness but it be attained with painstaking effort. purposeful toil and with the illum- ination of the human soul believing in happiness and carrying the ideal of blessedness. From above comes the blessing upon our enterprises and undertakings, but the foundation and substructure to it must be laid by far-sighted human activity. Lessing, the great German humanist and poet, stated once that if the Superior Being would offer him once the choice between two gifts: one of them con- sisting of wisdom perfectly matured and •ll-made, the other again of wisdom immature but slowly un- folding itself to truth by the labor and observation of man, he would rather choose the second gift, paying for truth a golden price in work and study. Something of this spirit holds true in regard to the conception of happiness of the Jew. Given the choice between happiness granted hint without toil and effort on his part and happiness which is the result of God's bless- ing and man's toil :Old labor, vision and understand- ing. the Jews VOUId certainly select the second gift. One remark more—according to the Jewish con- ception even the fact that man acquired happiness does not sullice. Happiness must not only be acquired but also deserved. Man must be worthy of happiness if it is to operate as the most beneficial power in his life. We deserve happiness if we share it with our fel- lowmen, if we rejoice and make the heart of our fel- lowman rejoice. if we give from the Divine Blessing to the Levite, the stranger, the orphan, the widow, the aged—if baking under the sun-rays of happiness we call forth of our nature file best. the noblest in it : the qualities that shine like pure gold and make us to a "Jew." A pride of God! Israel Becho Espoar! Let me with loving heart wish to my friends, to Detroit Jewry and to Israel at large not only a "Happy New Year" but a well deserved, well earned happi- ness in the new year which shall inscribe our name in the book of God's friends, that the blessing shall be- come true: "Le Shonoh Torah Tikosevo." awe-inspiring • days of Rosh Hashonah and its subse- quent days of penitence, the crowning climax of which is the Day of Atonement.; a season that per- meates the Israelite with reverential fear and solemn emotion. These days are welcomed guests that visit the Jew regularly at this period to refresh his spirit and to call 'forth within him rejuvenated energy; to equip him with courage and tenacity so that he may continue his historic march with unfaltered steps until the dawn of the ultimate glorious epoch of universal freedom and justice. It is a fact worthy of note that the Israelite does not celebrate his New Year in the month of Nisan, the period of his liberation from Egypt and his na- tional birthday! It is not in the make-up of his nature to be out egotistic and narrow-minded as to think solely of himself and to ignore the rest of mankind. He com- mences the first day of the year in the month of Tishri ; the traditional birthday of all men, all races and creeds; children of the first nun created by God, \•ho are to be united in a common brotherhood. Highly poetical is that passage in the Midiash that • when the first man \vas created and the angels on high beheld the composite creature; the erect figure, the high forehead, the perfectly molded features, the mirror-like eyes and above all, when the' fathomed the holy depths of his great soul with all the purity and virtue that dwelled therein, added thereto the gift of speech—then the angels were amazed and be- wildered and in their ecstasy they greeted him with the exclamation "Holy! Holy! Holy!" an epithet at- tributed to God himself. But no sooner did Adam sink into a lethargy, when the angels became convinced that he is no more than an ordinary mortal; nothing but flesh and blood with low instincts and brutal in- clinations as all other creatures, since the man within him is fast asleep. Therein lies t h e great significance and essence of the high holy days. We have explicit faith in the orig- inal glory of man, God's most ■ wonderful creature; we place unqualified confidence in mankind. The world is good and beautiful; all children of men originate from the purest and divinest source, children of one Father, members of one family—but lamentably their inner humanitarian faculties are slumbering while their lives are engulfed in everyday materialism. No wonder, then, that in such a state of coma the animal within the maw takes advantage of him and works chaotically with all its bestial instincts un- bridled and uncontrolled. Therefore, on New Year's day, man's birthday, the Israelite, in unison with till his brethren the world over, prays heartily that till races, nations and creeds "May form one band to do Thy will with a perfect heart." May they all awaken from their long, dan- gerous sleeping sickness. May soon come the time when the beastly nature will sink in all everlasting sleep "and all wickedness shall be totally obliterated like smoke." On this Rosh Ilashonah that ushers in the year 51;88. our most fervent prayers ascend on high to our Heavenly Father that during its reign Israel may be instrumental in shedding luster upon our ancient faith, upon the land of Israel, upon this land of liberty, and work peace and blessing among all men and nations on earth, that out of the homes of the rich and the poor, from the hands and lips of the living and from the memories of the dead, one great anthem of praise and thanksgiving, of joy and gladness, ratty arise. May the ensuing year bring about a revival and complete awakening of the original God-like ideals within man out that the angelic chorus may again be induced to call hint "Holy" and perfect as on the day he emerged from the hands of his Creator. 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