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Sabbath Readings of the Law.
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 21:1-24:18.
Prophetical portion—I. Sam. 20:18-42.
Reading of the Law for Rosh Chodesh, on Sunday, Num.
28:1-15.

February 8, 1929

Shvat 28, 5689

Mr. Brown's Open Letter.

The Open Letter addressed by Mr. David A. Brown,
national chairman of the United Jewish Campaign, to
100,000 Jews in the United States and Canada "who
for nearly fifteen years have carried a continuous re-
sponsibility toward the Jews in other parts of the
world," is certain to command attention and to domi-
nate the interest of the people involved.
Mr. Brown does not mince words. lie asks of those
interested in the work of the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee whether they would have its machinery scrap-
ped, or whether they would retain its life, even giving
it a new lease of life through further campaigns, and
thereby making possible the continuation of American
Jewish aid of the crippled Jewish institutions in Euro-
pean countries and in Palestine.
This Open Letter, on the face of the facts contained
therein, ought to bring an affirmative answer, carrying
with it encouragement to the J. D. C. leaders to con-
tinue their efforts on behalf of the millions of unfortu-
nates overseas. But Mr. Brown knows better. He
knows from his experience as a campaigner that it has
not been easy to gather eighty millions of dollars in the
past fifteen years, laudable as the generosity of the
contributors of this vast sum really is. Mr. Brown
knows that people do not give as readily now as they
used to, and that is why he asks: "Are we, the Jews
of this country, tired of campaigns?" That is why Mr.
Brown asks:

Are

we, the Jews of this country, so deeply interested
in ourselves, in our own nodal requirements, in the
building of our own institutions and the cry of our own
needy, that we are ready to end that which has been
recognized by the world as the greatest piece of human
engineering in history?

Mr. Brown follows this up with another important
question very characteristic of him:

Are we ready to abandon millions of our brethren who
through no fault of their own find themselves changed
almost overnight from a self-respecting, self-supporting,
fine--minded, right-minded people to a people almost en-
tirely dependent for their very lives on the generosity of
the Jews of America? •

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fessional districts are being molested for funds draws
the epithet "schnorrer" for every collector, whether his
cause be worthy or not. We suggested the creation of
a sort of clearing house which should investigate the
causes represented by all invading collectors and
should assist them, if they are legitimate, thereby re-
lieving individuals from the trouble of visits from these
collectors. In reply to our suggestion that the Jewish
Welfare Federation take a hand in this problem and
help solve it through a fund to be included in its next
campaign, Mr. 1Vineman writes:

Why not?
Since they are restricting diamonds,
copper, oil and what not to maintain a profitable
basis of operation, why shouldn't they restrict the num-
ber of retail stores? This idea which has found tangible
expression in a bill introduced in the 3h'inconsin legisla-
ture is mentioned here because of the fact that so many
of our people are in trade and it should be of interest
to them. If the bill becomes law then no new retail
store can be opened in any neighborhood in Wisconsin
unless a need for it be established. If you want to go
into business you notify the State Commissioner of Bank-
ing and you hand him a fee of $250. This sum covers
the cost of investigating the need and incidentally YOU,
to discover whether you have the character, the ability
and the means. I don't know what effect such a law nay
have upon those young men who are endowed only with
energy and ambition and a shoe string in an attempt to
wrest a living from the martyrs of trade. Of course I
question whether the country is ready for such legislation
just yet but you may write it down somewhere for future
reference that some day there will be just such a law
which will prevent the opening of 18 drug stores or gro-
cery stores or some other kind of stores within a radius
of a few blocks. There is sense in the idea the longer
we think about it.

With reference to the editorial in the last issue of The
Chronicle, with regard to the many Jewish appeals being
made to Detroiters, I do not know whether you understand
thoroughly what the Jewish Welfare Federation has been
doing in this regard.

We have had a fund of close to $100,000 during the
last three years, upon which we have been drawing, to
take care of national appeals, and have been making con-
tributions to those that we considered worthy, with the
understanding that they would not solicit further from
the Detroit community. In this way, we have been ward-
ing off a lot of small appeals, with which Detroit Jews
have been bothered in the past. We are also acting as
a clearing house for such appeals, and if the Detroit Jew-
is public could be informed that when an appeal is made
to them, if they will call up the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion to find out concerning the appeal, we can tell them
whether we are contributing, and whether we consider
the appeal worthy.

I ant in receipt of several booklets this week from
different sources, all dealing with missionary propaganda
for the Jew, that is, Christian propaganda. Someone liv-
ing in Walpole, N. II., has gone to considerable trouble
in editing and interlining many passages in some of these
booklets which deal with 13ritish Jews' Society of Mount
Cannel Bible School, an evangelical and medical mission
to Israel, of which the Rev. S. B. Rohold, F. R. G. S., is
pastor and superintendent. One of the booklets contains
the Rev. Rohold's story of life in Palestine 40 years ago
and today. Ile was a Jew and became converted to
Christianity. And, of course, the purpose of all these
pamphlets is to direct attention to the necessity for the
Jew to find salvation in Jesus of Nazareth. I have no
quarrel with these converted Jews. But I become impa-
tient with them. I wish they would let me alone to go
my way. I am perfectly willing to find whatever salva-
tion there is for me without their assistance. Like all
converts they argue for their own religion with fanatical
zeal. I have given my opinion time and again regarding
these missionaries and have nothing more to add to the
subject at thin time. I might add that I do not believe
in Jesus, the Jew, as the only son of God. That more
and more I see men and women, Christians, too, turning
away from the myths and legends that have come down
to us regarding Jesus, the Jew, and that they are begin-
ning to look upon him in the light of a great moral
teacher. When this thought becomes even more wide-
spread we shall have a better world to live in.

In the next drive, which we contemplate some time
this year, we intend to again include in the fund a reserve
to take care of ouch appeals.

It is encouraging to know that the Federation is
taking steps which we consider to be in the right direc-
tion. It is clear, however, and Mr. Wineman's letter
does not offer proof to the contrary, that the Federa-
tion cares for only a small percentage of the national
appeals made by groups and individuals to Detroiters.
There are literally many hundreds of individual and
national appeals made yearly to business and profes-
sional men, and unless a central committee checks up
on these and either endorses or rejects them, or cares
for them from a reserve fund of the type that is already
functioning here, the situation will become even more
unbearable for the men anti women approached for
donations, and, as we pointed out in our first editorial
on the subject, will place worthy causes in the danger
of suffering with the unworthy ones because of an in-
crease of distrust in all appeals.
Several months ago, the Jewish Daily Day of New
York, being troubled by the same problem, made an
investigation of the genuineness of European and Pal-
estinian causes for which appeals are being made con-
tinuously, and it was able to list a number of worthy
institutions and reject many whom it found to be faked
to serve the Purposes of dishonest collectors. Every
community in the land suffers from similar invasions of
unworthy spokesmen as well as unworthy causes, and
the Welfare Federations will be making one of their
greatest contributions by helping remedy this situation.
The Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit has made .
a beginning three years ago when it created a reserve
fund for national appeals. In the next drive it should
go a step further and create the means to relieve the
community not from a handful of national drives, but
from as many as possible of the literally myriads of
campaigns which molest the community and cause
doubt, because of their multiplicity, in the hearts of
many truly public-spirited men and women.

For the first time a graduate of the Hebrew Union
College has been chosen as national chaplain of the
American Legion.
This rather interesting position
is Rabbi leo J. Levinger's.
He is director of the
B'rith Hillel Foundation of the Ohio State
University, Columbus, Ohio. The American Legion
is an organization of 900,000 men and has on more
than one occasion demonstrated in quite practical
fashion that it believes that men who fought together in
the common cause of democracy should be brothers off
the battlefield as well as on. Dr. Levinger saw front line
service overseas with the Twenty-seventh Division and as
a result of his experience "over there" he has given us
a book, "A Jewish Chaplain in France," dealing primar-
ily with the Jews in the A. E. F. But being chosen na-
tional chaplain is not the first time that Dr. Levinger has
been recognized by the Legion. Ile served the organiza-
tion as state chaplain in Delaware and as a member of
the national committee on ceremonials. All of which, I
take it, is splendid good-will propaganda and makes for
closer fellowship between Jew and Christian.

Well, well, it's been many a day since I heard from
Mr. Sig Saxe, who for many years was one of my most
faithful correspondents. Of course, we never agreed.
We couldn't. lie is too much of an individualist and let
me whisper it, maybe I am, too. Then, too, I could never
reconcile myself to his rather fanatical attacks on the
Catholic Church (here I am starting to quarrel with hint
all over again). However, I am not going to continue
along this line but will hurry along to say that I thank
him for the editorial he sent me on "Walter Hurt," which
appeared in the Chicago Evening Post. I am reprinting
it because I do not believe that many of my readers who
were so much interested in this great Gentile protagonist
of the Jews are acquainted with the side of his life com-
mented on in the Post. Here it is:

A Great Soul.

It so happens that Mr. Brown's straightforward
Professor Albert Einstein, having attracted to him-
statement of facts is backed by appalling reports from self the attention of the world with his relativity theory,
Bessarabia, Russia and Poland. Jewry in Eastern Eu-
has during the past two weeks again startled the entire
rope is economically bankrupt and its cultural institu-
scientific world with the announcement of his forth-
tions are either entirely ruined or are crippled beyond
coming manuscript of five pages, to be known as "The
hope, except for the help that may come from this coun-
Field Theory." This new theory, it is said, will revo-
try. American Jewry dare not fail the Jews of East-
lutionize everything hitherto known as Physics and,
ern Europe, and yet, because many are "tired of drives,
what is more, may revolutionize everything hitherto
tired of giving," these Jews run into the danger of be-
known as "brevity," because of the conciseness of a
ing further deprived of their rights as human beings
document of such great importance.
and as Jews, namely, to have the opportunity of becom-
But the greatness of Einstein seems to lie in another
ing self-supporting, and to be aided in acquiring that
field. Molested though he is by representatives of the
knowledge and truth which is indispensable for the
press of practically every country on earth who are anx-
spiritual life of Jews.
ious to know something about his "Field Theory," Dr.
But the welfare of European Jewry alone is not the
Einstein spoke with eagerness about his relation to Pal-
only reason for the continuation of the life of the Joint
estine and Zionism. Deploring though he did the
Distribution Committee. There is also Palestine, to
world-wide publicity given his five-page manuscript on
whose upbuilding as the Jewish National Home all ele-
his new discovery, he penned, with his characteristic
ments in Jewry are now pledged. The J. D. C. ought brevity, a beautiful parable on Israel's position in the
to be given new vigor and new life by virtue of the
world. He asked that it be published in full. Ile evi-
Palestinian stimulant and pledge. By virtue of the
dently knows what may happen in the hands of a news-
prominence of the leaders who form this committee, it
paperman who is pressed for space. In full, his para-
ought to stand in the center of all the work governing
ble thus urges the Jewish people not to fail in its obli-
the approaching unity in Israel for Palestine's recon-
gation to Palestine:
struction.
Jewry is like an animal which was beheaded 2,000
And there is at least one other reason why the
years ago. Jerusalem, with its Temple, was its head. It
J. D. C. machinery ought not to be scrapped. It is
was God's miracle that it remained alive for so long a
the reason offered by our own internal problem. It
period without a head.
The second miracle occurred when the body, grown
must be remembered that if Jews become tired of
formless, several scores of years ago, decided that it must
drives and of giving for worthy causes overseas, it may
have a head, and has already formed in Palestine a little
head. However, this head is still too small, too thin and
lead them to tiredness as far as their own immediate in-
weak for such a huge body.
stitutions are concerned. This can be avoided through
See to it that it grows into full-sized head as befits the
education, and such a vast effort for education calls
body.
for national centralization of energy which should be
Such rare simplicity, coupled with the modesty
able to reach all Jews, without drawing antagonism
from sects. It is not at all necessary that we adopt uni- which distinguishes Professor Einstein, makes him
stand out as one of the world's truly greatest. To him
formity, but it is very important that we have unity,
is applicable the Talmudic definition for modesty:
and such unity can only be attained through a central
power with the strength already shown by the J. D. C.
Who are the pious? The modest. Who are the mod-
est? Those who are bashful, knowing that God sees them.
American Jewry's greatest problem is that of edu-
cation. Such a small percentage of our children are
God surely has seen Professor Einstein. the modest,
offered a means of acquiring Jewish knowledge and of
the bashful. Therefore he is Einstein the Great.
being educated Jewishly, that it is high time that a cen-
tral organization attempted to solve the problem. The
Joint Distribution Committee, while it continues to do
The Die Is Cast.
its work overseas, and to encourage efforts for Pales-
The
die
has
long
ago been cast by many Jews in
tine, may at the same time accomplish much for the
favor of a hospital in Detroit, but the conviction with
education of the American Jewish youth.
which non-Jews speak in favor of such a Jewish insti-
We are prescribing a big bill. but a worthy one.
For the sake of such a bill, there ought not to be a sin- tution is among the most encouraging elements in the
Detroit situation. Dr. W. L. Babcock, director of Grace
gle Jew in America to desire the death of the J. D. C.
Hospital and George E. Phillips, general superintend-
ent of Herman Kiefer Hospital, in their statements
Returning to the Problem of the "Schnorrers."
which they gave to The Chronicle, judge the situation
We acknowledge the receipt of an interesting reply in an unbiased manner and from the point of view of the
need of the community as well as of the Jewish physi-
from Mr. Henry Wineman, president of the Jewish
cian and patient. All the arguments hitherto offered
Welfare Federation of Detroit, to our editorial of Jan-
in favor of a hospital now seem to gain in emphasis
uary 25 on "Is There an Influx of 'Schnorrers.' " In
this editorial we pointed out that unlimited demands with the direct and unequivocal endorsements by the
are almost daily being made on Jews in Detroit by men
non-Jewish leaders in Detroit medical institutions.
who claim to represent a thousand and one institutions There remains the immediate and pressing need for
In European countries and in Palestine. and that the un- action on the part of the Jewish community. Surely,
reasonableness with which Jews in business and pro-
there ought to be no further delays in action.

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The recent death of Walter Hurt breaks one
of the few remaining links uniting us to that older

generation of midwestern writers which included

Lew Wallace and James Whitcomb Riley and their
circle. At one time editor of the New York Tele-

graph, Mr. Hurt was perhaps better known as a

newspaper man in the middle west, where he had
been associated with the old Inter-Ocean and be-

fore that with the Post. His story of the last

night of the Inter-Ocean is a classic of newspaper
writing.

Mr. Hurt's writing was not confined to the
newspaper field. Ile was a poet and a militant
critic of society, and the editor of two journals of
critical opinion, "The Gatling Gun" and "The Pa-
ladin." His books included a study of the Jew in
America and "The Scarlet Shadows: A Story of
the Great Colorado Conspiracy." For a time he
edited the Socialist paper, the New York Daily
Call.

His life was not without personal tragedy,
but possibly to Walter Hurt that was less than the
tragedy of ending his days with his social hopes
unfulfilled, seeing mass production and mob
thinking extend their domain at the expense of
individual liberty of action and independence of
thought. For Walter Hurt, though calling himself
a Socialist, was also a great individualist and
libertarian, a foe of the censor and the passer of
sumptuary laws, and he had foreseen the develop-
ment of those powers while most of his con-
temporaries were blind to their menace.

I just laughed. I really couldn't help when my eye
caught sight of the news item going the rounds of the
country that the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that
the Milwaukee Golf Club in requesting its Jewish mem-
bers to resign committed "a social error," but nothing
which justified legal action against the club by ejected
members. Well, one way for Jews to assist clubs iin
avoiding "social errors" is to refrain from joining those
in which they are not wanted. I sometimes wonder if
it wouldn't be possible for a Jew to bring legal action
against a hotel which refused him accommodations, par-
ticularly if the hotel in question happened to be the
only place where accommodations could be procured in
that neighborhood. I would never be in sympathy with
court action against a social club, but if I were touring
and found myself late at night in a section of the country
where it was impossible to obtain shelter except at one
hotel and then denied that privilege. I believe I would
be justified and could successfully bring action in court
against the proprietor. But I can't get over that "social
error." It's rich! That court has a sense of humor.

I note that we are to have another "exclusive" organ-
ization in our midst if there are to be found enough per-
sons who think so little of their money that they are
willing to part with $25 a year for it. It seems that there
is a big-hearted butterman tone who sees to it that his
bread is always buttered on the right side), by the name
of Snyder, living in Utica, N. Y., who is "branch man-
ager of the American Business Men's Association." Some
men have more unmitigated gall when it comes to pick-
ing names that they have no business with! Mr. Snyder
says that the purpose of the association is to bring closer
together our American business men and our American
workmen, women and children, to get them better ac-
quainted with each other. Now if that isn't a scream
that can be heard from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then
I have never heard one. It is open to all Americans
except those of Jewish nationality. The reason for this
exclusion is probably due to the fact that the Jews are
too smart to be caught by such clap-trap. If Mr. Snyder
attempts to use the name "American Business Men's
Association," he should be stopped.

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Tchernichowsky Poet Editor

By DR. MEYER WAXMAN

(In Chicago Jewish Chronicle.)

The mid-Victorian epoch in
English literature produced two
great poets, Alfred Tennyson and
Robert Browning, and likewise
our own Itene4ssanre epoch of
Hebrew literature, the one repre-
senting the youth of Zionism
brought forth two great poets,
Chaim Nachman Malik and Saul
Tchernichowsky.

Saul Tchernichowsky appeared
on the horizon of Hebrew litera-
ture in the early nineties of the
last century and as the irony of
fate would have it, his first poem
was published in an obscure Ile-
brew journal which appeared in
the United States, in Baltimore.
It did not take lung, however, and
the readers of Ilebrew began to
feel that a new star had arisen on
the skies of Hebrew poetry. All
felt that here we deal with a new
quality and a new tone of poetry,
something different from what has
gone before.

Wherein does this difference
consist? It consists in the relation
of the poet to the three great ele-
ments of poetry in general: Life,
Love, and Nature. I will begin
with the last. No poetry deserves
that name which is insensible to
the beauty of the wonder of all
wonders—this world of ours—and
Jewish poetry was no exception.
We have to refer only to the beau-
tiful nature poems of the Bible.
But for centuries the Jew was Im-
mured in the Ghetto and the rela-
tion of the Jew to nature was
somewhat distorted. And this was
reflected in the poetry of the ages.
There are fine nature descriptions
in the poems of Luzzato, and still
more beautiful in the poems of
modern poets. But in all then:
there is a certain mechanical note.
Tchernichowsky was the one who
overcame that difficulty. Bred on
the prairies of South Russia, he
brought with him the "fragrance
of the field," of hill and dale. Na-
ture to hint is no stranger but a
great big brother. lie is at one
with it in all its phases, whether it
appears in the quietude of night,
or in the exuberant bloom of
spring, or in the solitude of the
mighty mountains, or in the raging
storm. He strives to be "a strand
in the web of the mighty elemental
forces which work in the uni-
verse." Hence the beauty of his
nature songs, which are so natural
and elevating.

The same naturalness is ex-
pressed in his relation to life. Ac-
tivity and energy are the very es-
sence of his soul. And that life is
complete, it is the life manifested
in the forces of nature, in the
storm, in the rumbling of the
waves, in the humming of the
birds, in the growth of flowers, in
the hustle and bustle of the mar.
ket place, and in the outburst of
human passions. Hence his long-
ing for the storm to come, his ad-
miration for the heroic period in
Jewish history, for the few martial
personalities of our age.
And equally natural is his rela-
tion to love. Love is no stranger
to Jewish poetry. True, it sang
mostly of the beauty of the soul,
but it appreciated the beauty of
the body. Judah Halevi sang
wonderfully of love but that was
a long time ago. In the centuries
that followed, there was always a
strained note in love poems of
Jewish poets. Not so with Tcher-
nichowsky; his love songs are nat-
ural and not only that but pure.
"Life is love, and where there is
no love, there is death," is the
motto of our poet. Yet Tcherni-
elle wsky in now primarily a love
poet, for life and nature and his
people have attracted his atten-
tion. To sum up briefly, Tcherni-
chowsky introduced into Hebrew
poetry both natural relation to
life, love and nature and the ap-
preciation for pure beauty wher-
ever it is found, or still better, he
created beauty by his poems. This
is human contribution to our lit-
erature which must be beside Jew.
ish also human.

II.

The Poet as a Jew.

Our poet used to be called the
"Hellene" in Hebrew literature. I
do not think that the title is justi-
fied, neither by the quantity of his
poems devoted to Jewish subjects
which exceeds his other poems,
nor by the quality of his poems.
True, he himself calls himself a
follower of Apollo, and in his
youth in the period of storm and
stress, ho expressed some harsh

words ngainst forms of Jewis
life. But he later knew better
Tchnerichowsky is a Jew to the
marrow of his bones. Even in his
most human aspect in his nature
poems there is a Jewish note. Ile
sees not only the beauty am
majesty of it, but also its tragit
side, the ruthlessness of its blint
force which destroys the weak ant
leaves the straggler behind. Hi.
heart aches fur them. And if any
one will call it "Weltschntertz,"
call it "Judenschmertz." Ile wht
strives fur action and and °tabu' ,
of energy also knows how ti
dream. Ile is a great dreamer, the
heritage of the race.

In his time he dreamt the dream
of the revival of his people, and
a veritable "harp for its
song." Thus he says: "Even if
the Day of Redemption will tarry
to come, it will arrive step by
step: Do not despair, prisoner of
hope, our sun will rise yet."
(Cradle song.) This is not the
song of a Greek. His "Songs of
the Exiles," I believe, "The Gath-
ering of the Exiles," ' The Flag of
Zion" and others are soul stirring
and move any Jewish soul to its
depths.

Was

The poet of beauty was not in-
sensible to beauty of Jewish re-
ligion. His Sabbath poem, "Fri-
day Eve," based on the Talmudic
remark that two angels accompany
each Jew on coming home from
the synagogue, is a panegyric to
our Sabbath.

And then Tchernichowsky as
the poet of Jewish suffering. His
poem, "Between Boundaries,"
where the tragedy of two Jewish
brothers, fighting on opposite
sides, kill each other, reveals at a
glance the depth of Jewish suffer-
ing. But the poem of poems, of
Jewish misery which should rather
be called the hymn of martyrdom
is "Baruch of Magentza" (May-
ence), depicting the cruel revenge
taken by a mediaeval rabbi, who
after slaughtering his own daugh-
ters to save them from the fate of
falling into the hands of the Cru-
saders, was forced to conversion,
and then in remorse sets the city
on fire to revenge all the innocent
blood, is sublime both in style and
spirit. No better commentary of
Jewish martyrdom in mediaeval
age is necessary.

Finally, a word about his "Idyls
of Jewish Life." True it is not
"Idyls of the Kings," but idyls of
the life of poor Jews in the vil-
lages and towns in the south of
Russia, yet they do not fall behind
the former in beauty, depth of
pathos, and psychological insight.
This, then, is Saul Tchernich-
owsky, the poet of man and Jew.

An Idealist in Business; the

Story of Henry A. Dix.

AN AMERICAN BUSINESS VEN-
TURE. By Mark Ii. Dix. Pub-
lished by Harper & Brothers, 49
East Thirtd-third street, New
York ($3).
Here is the story of a son who
has been affiliated in business with
his father, has helped build a
great factory, and has now de-
scribed his father's accomplish-
ments in a book eminently worth
while reading.
Henry A. Dix came to this coun-
try in 1892, when he was in his
forty-third year. In Russia he had
established a successful mercan-
tile business, but he began to feel
the Czar's oppressions and
brought his family to this country
and started in business, after a
brief experience as a farmer in
Millville, N. J.
As maker of the now famous
"Dix-Made" garments for women,
Mr. Dix built for himself success
paralleled in only few cases in the
clothing industry. In his work-
shops he established for himself
a reputation unequalled in the
garment trade. Mrs. Dix, who
shares with her husband in the
tribute paid her by her son in the
book under review, took an inter-
est in the workers at the plant,
made cookies for them to be served
during social hours, and the friend.
ship and congeniality that existed
between employer and employe
helped add glory to the great Dix
business adventure.
The quality of merchandise also
became a by-word in business.
"Not how cheap, but how good"
was his slogan. Furthermore,
"Dix-Made" nurses' uniforms also

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Gems From Jewish Literature

Selected by Rabbi Leon Fim.

SAYINGS OF MOSES MEN-
DELSS011 N
"If our soul were mortal, then
reason would be a dream, which
Jupiter has sent us that we may
forget our misery.; and we would
be created like the beasts, only to
seek food and die,"

"I do not deny that I have no.
tired in my religion certain human
additions and abuses, such as ev-
ery religion accepts in course of
time, which unfortunately dim its
splendor. But of the easentials of
my faith I am so firmly and indis.
notably assured, that I call God to
witness that I will adhere to my
fundamental creed as long as my
soul does not assume another na-
ture."

"The contemptible opinion held
of Jews I 'would desire to shame
by virtue, not by controversy. My
religion, my philosophy, and my
status in civil life are the weight-
iest arguments for avoiding all re-
ligious discussion, and for treat-
ing in public writings of truths
equally important to all religions."

"The religion of my fathers does
net care to be spread abroad; we
are not to send missions to the two
Indies or to Greenland, to preach

our belief to remote nations.
have the good fortune to possess as
friends many excellent men not of
my creed, we love each other dear
ly, and never have I said in my
heart, 'what a pity for that beauti
ful soul!'"

"Messed be God, who has given
unto us the doctrine of truth. We
have no dogmas contrary to, or be-
yond reason. We add nothing, ex-
cept commandments and statutes,
to natural religion; but the funda-
mental doctrines of our religion
rest upon the basis of understand-
ing. This is our glory and our
pride, and all the writings of our
sages are full of it."

“CREno"
"laugh at all my dream.. my dearest;
laugh. and I repeat •new
That I 'till believe in man—
As I still believe in you.

Let the time be dark with hatred,
Relieve in rear. beyond,
Love at least shall bind the people.
In an ••erlasting bond.

In that day shall my own people
Rooted In it. soil arise,
Shake the yoke from off it. shoulder.
And the darkness from it. eyes.

Then • new Anne hall be lifted
To the young. the free. the brave.
And the wreath to crown the itinger
Shall be gathered from me grave."
Sit. TCHERNICHOWSK•