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THE BEST INTERPRETERS
I have read Christian Science
booklets in several languages.
When I consider the number of ex-
Jews identified with the movement
in New York City I hope that the
mistake will not be made of giving
them a ritual and literature in He-
brew. The average Jew (usually
it is a Jewess) who abandons Rashi
for Eddy is ignorant not only of
Hebrew but even of Judaism. As
a liberal rabbi I know something of
Judaism, Hebrew and Christian
Science. Far from luring me from
my ancestral moorings, Mother
Eddy has strengthened my convic-
tion that Rashi and the other great
expounders of the Bible knew more
in scientific and spiritual interpre- i
lotion of it than she could ever at- I
lain to. Whoever is not well
grounded in the language in which
that marvelous literature was writ-
ten can not adequately sense its
basic spirit and vital soul. No
translation ever equals its original.
Besides, the hest interpreters of a
language and literature are author-
itative representatives of the peti-
te from - whose genius these sprang.
—Rev. Dr. Alexander Lyons.
A POOR INVESTMENT
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The parent who yields to the
caprices or inordinate desires of his
child principally to escape pester-
ing and irritation and thus secure
his own peace makes a poor invest-
ment. He hazards the characters of
the child, jeopardizes society and
snws for himself a future harvest
of painful regret. Denial dictated
ad di determined by judgment in
y la, Of indulgence prompted by
t)Jofort is a more certain path to
1.0 oral dignity and manifold joy. A
parent that yields too much is
likrly to rear a child that resists
too little.
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urally turned to the Dutch, who Jews who landed in this country,
promised them freedom of con- and it was they who founded what
s•ience. In 1I2I the city of Bahia is now the largest, most powerful
In Every Wanted Fur
was captured by the Dutch. But and tremendously important Jewish
the following year it was again re- center in the world. Greater New
In Every Wanted Style
The history of the American captured from them. According to York now counts over 3,000,100
continent presents as curious and the terms of the capitulation, the Jews.
Ready for Your Inspection very significant contrast between Jews,
The comparatively small nundterl
along with other elements of
the life and growth of countries the population, were not to be mo- of Jews residing in Brazil at the I
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under Dutch and English influence lested. But the stipulation as far present have been recruited from
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and those under the domination of as it referred to the Jew was not recent Jewish emigrants from Eu-
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Spain and Portugal. The former carried out. Five nee-•hristians ropean countries. Despite the con-
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urement at no extra charge.
had from the very start entered were put to death.
stitutional guarantees of liberty of
upon a career of free, unhampered,
But the struggle between Portu- conscience and worship, organized
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an exhausting struggle with theo- Dutch besieged and captured the
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cratic fanaticism, bigotry and oh-
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scurrantism which sapped the vi- habited principally by Jews. Most
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Now
and
then
some woman in my
people until the realization of their moved to Recife. Pernambuco be-
community apologizes to me for her
came
the
center
of
the
Jewish
pop-
imminent downfall and economical
failure to attend religious worship
decay forced them to break away ulation also in Tamarico, Itamar-
.
from their mother countries acs, Itio de Janeiro, Parahiba and on Sabbath morning It is usually
others. Important congregations an individual who rarely comes. A.
Manufacturing Furrier
through war and revolution.
were formed by the .leas. Great Her excuses are, as as rule, super-
Brazil belonged to the latter scholars and leaders in worldly af- ficial or untrue. In this case she
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group, and those who suffered most fairs gave added luster to the fame lies in the name of religion. She
in her struggle for independence of the Jews. Two distinguished also makes a fool of herself by as -
and progress were the .lews. Like Jewish men of learning, Isaac Ab- sumi ng that I am so foolish as not
its mother country Portugal, in the out, de Tonseca and !Moses Raphael to be able to see through the irrel•-
days of rampant clericalism, the de Aguilos, joined the Recife com- vance and impertinence of her pre-
great South American republic munity. A scholar, Jacob Lagorto, texts. And yet what I would em-
waged a cruel war of persecution was head rat the congregation of phasize here is, that it is perfectly
upon our brethren. And this in Taniaridio. Another Jewish rabbi, absurd for any one to apologize to
spite of the fart that their pres- Jacob de Agulla, was reputed tc a minister for not coming to con-
ence in that country was an im- ho a Dian of pro found learning. gregational worship. He is neither
posed one, for they had been forc- Elijah Machorro and Jacob de An- Grd, nor in God's place, according
ibly exiled by the Portuguese in- drade Velosino were well-known to the Jewish viewpoint. If anyone
quisition for daring to remain Jews. writers.
remain away it is a matter for his
Yet this presence was beneficial to
own conscience m his relation with
Alakers of Tight Barrels and Kegs and All Kinds of
On the other hand, in Bahia and
the land of banishment. The Jew-
God.
ether cities left under the dominion
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ish settlers built and planned de-
Beloved, don't excuse yourself to
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the
.leas
continued.
A
singular
in-
the
house
of
worship
on
the
Sab-
the most productive element of the
population when Brazil began her stance was the seizure of the great bath. If you have no respect for
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up new and splendid opportunities the inquisition for being a .lew. teacher and leader. If your sense
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that caused Holland to cast a cov- The philosopher proudly admitted of obligation to the Almighty and
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etous eye on the rich South Amer- that he was, and would remain a of the significance and influence 14
ican region. Then the struggle for Jew. An immense crowd gathered
ff, whore your example for others do not
its possession between Holland and tie witness the auto dt-
compel you to devote a little over
Portugal began. Naturally the Tortas was to be burned. As his an hour a week to God's house there
billy WAS being consumed by the
leas sided with Holland. They
is no valid reason why you should
were driven to it by the blind and leaping flames there was heard a consider toe. Your flimsy excuses
iigoted policies of the Portuguese. ringing voice shouting, "Sh'ma Yis- with which you try to cloak your
roel A,101114 Fleihenu A 110111li Ech-
The Dutch were defeated, but it
odl" And with the word "Echod' indifferentand ungrateful r•li-
WAS the Jews who paid the price of
giousness do nut please, they only
his defeat. They were crushed and on his lips, Tortas breathed his last. pain me. I would have more re-
practically wiped off the face of the The incident had a terrifying etfect spat for your courage along with
earth. The few who were left alive upon the crowd. It was long re- little fur your judgment if you sim-
iiirrated to North America or were membered by the populace. The
tay
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absorbed by the native population. word "Echo)" became a synonym ah out it.—R ev. Dr. Alexa nder L y-
The gruesome irony of the his- of holiness, and the inquisition had
to issue a special decree forbiding
ory of all backward nations which
makes them hound and hoot and its use.
The Portuguese 'Auld. my
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outrage their most useful citizens,
fought until they wrested the co-
with the result that they them-
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accomplish that which with a more
inquisition. Thousands of them
tolerant policy toward the Jews it
suffered the same fate :IS Tartar
would have accomplished in much
did. Among this were num of
less time. Under a better and saner
government than that which ruled great repute. including the Portu-
in her early years, Brazil could guese poet and dramatist, Antonio
Jane de Silva, as native of Rio de
JOS. A. PARA MS
have been a second United States.
Janeiro. The transportations con-
But regret plays even a smaller
tinued
until
the
middle
of
the
eigh-
part in national life than it does
teenth century. The .lows proper,
in individual life. and Brazil is
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now slowly and laboriously living perished, and what wets left of theml
down a past that all but deprived in the disguise of neo-Christians '
her of a future. The recent ob- became absorbed in the Gentile
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servanre of Brazilian deliverance population.
It is of historical interest to note
from the powers of tyranny, rear-
Italian,
French,
Spanish,
Portuguese and English.
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With the celebration hardly over, sel. The 23 Jews were brought to
it may not be amiss to recall some New York. They were the first
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of the salient facts of Jewish-Bra-
zilian history.
Brazil was discovered by Vin-
cente Yanez Pinzon in 1499, and
again by Pedro Alvarez de Cabral
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in 1500, the latter affording his
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country—Portugal—a claim on the
new territory. Cabral was a friend
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filled with the same spirit of ad-
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thereafter, the lives of the Jews
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It was at this time that the
Dutch conceived their ambitious
plan of gaining control of Brazil.
The Dutch West India company,
which played such an important
part in the colonization of the new
world, maw the wisdom of enlisting
the co-operation of the Jews. Fran- •
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