TREPerRonjousaffiRONICLE
HOW RABBI ISRAEL RAISED A GIRL
FROM THE DEAD
Short Story
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HYMAN JUDAH SCHACHTEL WRITES
FIRST H .U, C. ALMA MATER SONG
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pits :s a tale told of one of the beauty was such as to bring sad-
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strange deeds dune by Rabbi Israel, tress by its perfection. Her purity
non of Eleazer, who was the won- made all who saw her tremble.
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der-working rabbi of Medzibuz. Ile i The girl grew to be 13 years of
it was who p:ssessed the myster- age.
aids Souk of all p,.ver, the book I And then, one day, she became
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whose knowledge had been revealed i as one very tired, she became weak,
to only sewn men since Adam, In 1::d her life went out of her body.
that book contained the Holy Word, I In that moment, the aged mother
that could accomplish all things..
hrivelled and wrinkled and became
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At Chanukah time, when Jewish ' .ila.1 with grief. Fur hours she
children are told the story of Han-ldid not wove from the bedside
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also told the story of Rabbi Israel's' girl, who was no longer of this
strange deed. Ilannah lived in the corld. She moaned, "why was she
time of the Maccabees. When the .1r:en to me, to be taken away in
soldiers of King Antios•hus ordered .he time when life opened to her!"
∎ her to perform worship to heathen
When she thought of the grand-
idols, she refused. Her seven sons children that might have been born
were captured, and led before her. to her, she wept, and could not bear
The eldest was put to torture. One the grief.
limb was cut from him as she
Then the mother found strength
watched. Still she refused to do and went to Medzibub. She fell at
heathen worship. Another limb the feet of the Rabbi of Israel.
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was cut from her son. She saw
"Why did you let a daughter be
him slaughtered, and would not horn to me, only to take her away
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yield.
again!" she cried.
Then the heathen king said to
Rabbi Israel, the Baal Shem Tov
her, "Tell your sons to adopt our saw that the woman was right in
ways, and they shall be spared, and her grief. And for the second time
you also." But the woman saw her ne consented to give life to her
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sons tortured with scalding irons, daughter, whom he had at first
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saw them endure, called to them to vithheld for so many years from
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persevere in their belief, and to bring born.
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be strong. Six of her s ms had al-
Ile went back with the woman
ready been killed. As her young- to her house. The Master of the
est was led to torture, the ruler Holy Name stood by the dead girl.
said to her, "For the last time, ile looked down into her face. In
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adopt our ways and your son shall death, it seemed even more pure
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' pretended to con- than in life. It shone with the
be spared." She
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sent, "Let me whisper to him," she wonder of infinite peace.
said.
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As he looked down into her face,
Ilyman Judah Ischachtel of But- were in existence which the students
But instead of telling the boy to his own face became luminous. A tido, N. Y., a member of this year's I sang at various functions but there
worship as did the heathens, she Maze of whiteness surrounded his ;class at the Ilebrew Union College, has never been an Alma Mater
encouraged him to be strong, and to ..suntemince. Those who were about has composed the first Hebrew Un- song.
bear martydom as his brothers had him were afraid to lok upon him. Ion College Alma Mater Song. It
In the Spring of 1929 Mr. Schach-
done. The boy died. Hannah, at They knew that he was in another is entitled, "Hail H. U. C."
tel, a pianist, introduced a sung,
last, also suffered death.
vorld. They knew that his soul
For many years students of the the words and music of which he
This story, remembered at Chan- had gone in search of the soul of college have felt the need for an
ukah time, has a weird parallel in the girl, to lead her back to her Alma Mater Song. Many parodies
the tale told of Rabbi Israel, who body.
lived in the Carpathian mountains
r or many moments he remained
in the eighteenth century, and motionless over the body of the girl.lyou have done with my sons." And
, founded the great sect of Jews Then his mouth moved, and his lips 'she was killed.
known as Chassidim.
spoke the Word. Those who were
After that,, the pogroms ceased.
Once a woman came to Rabbi Is- there hear him speak the word and Suddenly, there was peace for the
rael's but in the mountains. The yet none could ever repeat that Jews everywhere. Then the old
woman was small, and feeble, and sound. They heard it, and yet they
men in the synagogues, and the
not happy.
did not understand its meaning.lchassidim, remembered the story of
She said, "Rabbi, all my strong And each of them shivered, as the pure girl, and they knew. "She
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"And she came down again to the
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might be given me, but I had no
The face of the girl quickened
child. Perhaps if the rabbi will with life. She arose and was well. earth to suffer, and to see her seven
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sons die once more, in order that
pray for me, I may still bear a
Soon afterward, the strange, this generation of Jews might be,
child."
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icautiful maiden was married to a saved. Her death has put an end
The rabbi pitied the old woman. young scholar. During her life,
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He looked at her, as though he he bore seven sons.
Baal Shem Tov, knew that hers was
recognized her.
Her aged mother had become well the soul of Hannah, and when death
"Your prayers would have been and strong once more, it seemed
answered long ago," he said. "But that in her daughters, and in her was given her to spare her this sec-
ond torture, he brought her bark
they were stopped on their way, and grandchildren, she lived again.
to life, in order that she might ac-
,prevented from reaching heaven."
In the village, and in the coun- complish her destiny, and once more
She could not understand the try, the wonder of the girl's birth,
win the holiness of martrydom."
meaning of the words.
and of her having been brought
Such was the strange power of
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"A protecting hand withheld back from the dead, were nearly
Rabbi Israel, the 13aal Shem Tov.
them," he said. "But, since it is forgotten.
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your wish, it may after all he for
And then, one year, there came
the best that a child be born to pogroms in the land. Everywhere Carl Binhak Dead, Promi -
had composed, at a student enter-
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the natives arose and came against
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He told the woman to go home. the Jews, entering their homes,
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song was immediately taken
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and office building. The sturdy construction of
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The woman was overjoyed. She the men, and the women, and even conductor, died Monday at his that time on has been recognized
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their Alma Mater Song. It was
again in caring for her child. The
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The pogroms came into that very was born at Prague, Bohemia, in introduced to the public at the Or-
girl grew to be very beautiful, so district. Suddenly one day the vii- 1874. Soon after graduating front dination Exercises last May in the
without obligation to you. You can have this serv-
that all over the countryside the Inge where the old woman lived was the Prague Conservatory he came College Chapel.
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word was given that the girl was attacked. hike wild beasts the to America and obtained a position
"not of this world." Indeed, her peasants rushed into the houses of an a violinist in the Anton Seidi Or-
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the Jews, crushing infants under chasers, remaining with that organ- MajeLtiem, on the hill, our Alma Mater •
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