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The' World Association of Sab-
bath Observers, organized recent-
ly in Berlin for the purpose of
guarding and protecting the Sab-
bath as the Jews' day of rest, in a
statement to the Jewish press
throughout the world, makI•s
known its 'its. The statement is
issued ois .hir signatures of the
following board: D o cent Dr. Sam_
uel Gruenberg, chairman; lir. Emil
Hirsch and Dr. P. Sulzberger, as-
sociate chairmen; II. Abramczyk,
cashier; Rabbi Dr. II. Klein, Al-
fred Marcus and Dr. Werner Sil-
berstein.
The aims of the association, as
outlined in this statement follow:
"1. We want to recall to all Jew-
ish circle's the claim of the Sabbath
The above is a group of the 21 faculty and 123 student body members of the Hebrew Union Col- as the ground idea of Jewish doc-
lege at Cincinnati, Ohio, for the year 1928-1929. This is the largest enrollment the college has ever had. trine and Jewish life. Sabbath is
In the last row, center, is Mrs. Carrie Lesem Fist, matron of the college dormitory.
again to be life-forming and return
to Jews the idealism which enables
them to show mankind the way to
rim.
And
even
during
the
war
TEAM
WORK
OLD SLOBODKA AND
pure
amorality and true humanity,
the Yeshiva went on. Owing to
AMERICAN JEWRY war conditions it had to move to
"2. It is our intention to corn-;
Once
when
bread
and
honey
1
mine
the Shomre Shatilmos (Sabbath
Krementchug, but that was only
By RABBI I. L. BRIL
temporarily. As soon as circum- were up for discussion a little girl'[ lbservers) Associations of all
from
the
city
asked
her
country
c
ount ries.
stances permitted the Yeshiva re-
Slobodka!
cousin this question, "Does your
"3. We want to try to influence
To the average American Jew it turned to Slobodka.
papa keep a bee?" And that is all t
meanso nothing at all.
But Eastern European Jewry there is of the story. But let me he legislation of countries, as far
as
it concerns rest from work'
But what is Slobodka?
has fallen upon evil days.
here state a great, undisputed fact:
Well, $lobodka is. if you must
It has become a supplicant in- •A bee alone can make no honey. , t (Sunday rest, time of work, pro-
ection
of employees, payment of
know, a suburb of Kovno, the stead of being self-supporting.
A bee alone is not self-supporting. wages, etc). We want to induce
famed Lithuanian city.
I heard the story of Slobodka
In fact, a bee alone loses heart I Milk and town authorities to em-
Well supposing it is, you ask, from two visitors who are now in absolutely; its intelligence van-
what then?
this country, to-wit: Rabbi Boruch . ishes, it even forgets how to sting. ploy workers who keep the Sob- i
bath and who work on Sunday in
Then I have to go further and Hurwitz, the Rosh Yeshiva of So- And
separated a distance of from s lead of Saturday.
tell you that in Slobodka there is hodka and president of the Agu-
three
to
live
miles
from
its
hive
it
"4. We want to support inde-
a world-renowned Yeshiva by the dath Harabbonim of Lithuania,
will soon droop and die. Bees are
Sabbath-keeping
exis
name of the Slobodka Yeshiva.
and Rabbi Isaac Ogulnick, known surs:essful only as they work with t pendent
snow and help Shomre Shabbos to
Now a new light may dawn upon as the Passvoler Rav, and a mem-
get
I
you.
c •
ber of the executive committee of
A man alone will accomplish
"5. We want to induce organi-
Let me tell the story of that the Lithuanian Agudath Harrah-
nothing. All of his thoughts and zations working on Sabbath to ens-
Yeshiva.
bonim.
acts
have a direct relationship with r ploy a percentage of Sabbath-ob-
Rabbi Israel Salanter.
It is a sad tale. In the course others. Men succeed only as
they servant employees and workmen,
Fifty years ago, Rabbi Israel of years Slobodka has accumulated
Salanter, whose real name was a deficit of $50,000. Approxi- work together. Without compan- eventually with longer daily work.
"6. We want to facilitate the con-
Israel Lipkin, founded the Ye- mately $36,000 annually are re• ionship ambition droops; courage
flags; reason totters; animation
Ishiva in Slobodka.
quires] to maintain the Yeshiva. vanishes and the men dies.—Elbert tracting of insurances of Sabbath-
oliservant
circles against lack of
Yisroel Salanter, so called after The leaders did not bother much
Hubbard.
work and
rt
e p mIr
os nun
his place of residence Salanty, was about the deficit. But at last they
"7.
W
ewant
to create credit ta-
not only a great scholar, but an had to, things simply could not go r
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stitutions on strictly mercantile
I author, an organizer and an ad- along.
Leon Meyeritz, the Templ e
foundation for the furthering of
ministrator.
And so Rabbis Hurwitz and
Yisroel Salanter, we are told, Ogulnick have come to America. brurian, was roused out of bed late Shomre Shabbos.
one
night
by
ring
from
his
tele-
'
"8.
We want to combine Sabbath
was considered one of the most Where else could they go? There
eminent Orthodox rabbis of the are so many Slobodker here and ph one. Taking down the receiver, observant merchants and artisans
he
heard
a
voice
say:
r into companies, in order to enable
nineteenth century, because of his the center of Jewish life has
"Hello, is
i this"
---
them to help themselves.
broad Talmudic scholarship, his shifted to the United States, that
"No!" cried Leon irascibly.
: "9. By exchange of workers and
deep piety, and his personal influ- it was the only logical place to
"Isn't this----"
experiences between one country
ence for good. Ile was probably comic to.
"No! Wrong number,
And and another we want to facilitate
the only rabbi of his time that
And here are these rabbis and
exerted a wide influence on his fel- leaders, not pleading for them- , what the deuce do you mean drag- the employment of Sabbath-observ-
low rabbis and on the Jewish com- selves, but for their beloved insti- ' ging me out of bed at this hour of , ant employees.
the night. Who the deuce do you
"10. We want to influence Jew-
munities throughout Russia and tution.
ish organisations such as Agra
even beyond that country.
Learning, scholarship, Torah
"Isn't this the Temple librar- Joint, Oct and others, in the Hew
It is not, therefore, at all sur- know no frontiers. They are
ian?"
of our endeavors to incite the foun-
prising that there should have world-wide.
' a .
. . . Goodness, dation of Shomre-Shabbos colon-
flocked to Slobodka students from
U. S. Jews Must Pay Debt.
all over the land. To have studied
I recall that in days gone by Dr. has anything gone wrong? Is—is e
at the Slobodka Yeshiva, to have Israel Ilildesheimer, the head of there a fire?" "11. We want to further all
"No, everything's all right. But movements concerning week-ends
identified with Yisroel Salanter the famed Rabbiner Seminar in
gave one standing and was a life- Berlin, would turn to Russian I'd like to know, when do you open and five-day work, in order that be-
' long source of pride even handed Jewry for financial aid and receive the library in the morning?" sides Sunday, also Sabbath be
"Nine o'clock. Why?"
free from work.
down as an heirloom.
it quite liberally.
"Couldn't you open a little' "12. We want to deepen and
From Slobodka have come some
And yet German Jews could
'of the most learned and greatest have maintained the Hildesheimer earlier? Say 7 or 7:30?" spread the idea of Shabbos through
"Well, of all the impudent ras-, intellectual proposals. A World
rabbis of modern days. The Yeshiva quite comfortably.
•
graduates of the Yeshiva, rabbis
The Jews of America have not eals! Do you mean to tell me you Congress will be called in the near
and laymen, have left their impress received, thank Heaven, do not have disturbed me at this hour to future to consider the final means
upon Jewish life in the last three need any material aid from their ask such a question? Who are you,' for the realization of these ideas
and four decades.
brethren in other countries, but a member of the Sunday School?" and tasks.
"Yes, sir."
First the influence of Yisroel they have received, and that quite
"One may see from the above
"And where are you, you ras- how many tasks await um, offer-
Salanter and that of the leaders lavishly, spiritual sustenance from
cal?"
who succeeded him created in Slo- these old Yeshivas and these now
ing possibilities for the realization
"Locked up in the library, sir." : of Sabbath ideal. However, the
bodka an atmosphere, fostered an poverty-stricken seats of Jewish
—B'nai B'rith Magazine.
I Purpose can only be reached if we
environment that left an everlast- learning.
ing impress upon those who lived
get the support of all those to
American Jews are in honor
I whom the religious national and
within it.
bound to repay the debt.
A strong committee of represen- social importance of Sabbath is a
In this country there are thou-
And so the appeal is going to go
, sands of old Slobodka Yeshiva out first to all the old Slobodker tative laymen is being organized. conviction of the heart.
May I appeal to all those who
Bochurim who lovingly look back Yeshiva Bochurim who are in this
"Declarations for joining our
upon the days spent in the old Ye- country and then to all other Jews are interested and want to help to Association to be addressed to the
shiva. These memories are so to wipe that debt. Fifty thousand communicate with either Rabbi M. oflice of the secretary, 7 Thomas-
precious that even the rush and dollars is not so great an amount S. Margolis, 25 East Eighty-sixth iusstrasse pt., Berlin NW 40; mon-
street, New York, or with the re- ey remittance's to past cheque ac-
the noise and the hustle and bustle that it cannot be quickly raised.
of modern American life have been
Rabbi M. S. Margolis, Rabbi Is- lief committee of the Slobodka Ye- count Nr 49 8 14 (Abramczyk for r-
ir
unable to obliterate them.
rael Rosenberg, Rabbi E. Silver, shiva, 30 Canal street, New York. World Association.)"
There in brief you have the Rabbi J. Kahanowitz, Rabbi J.
story of Slobodka.
Siegel, Rabbi J. H. Levenberg, and
Not Interrupted by War.
other leaders of the Union of Or-
The Slobodka Yeshiva always thodox Rabbis are behind this
had between 300 and 400 bochu movement.

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