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THE DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and TILE LEGAL. CHRONICLE

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MARGINAL NOTES ON
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The legends which the Jews have woven round the tine
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name of their leader Moses are like melodies which seek to ne
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by one generation after another, has served again and whose function it would be e to
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again as the starting point of new stories, new glories and .audit
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the proposal.
new explanations.
Seeking to penetrate the mystery of his achievements,
they only succeeded in making it deeper; and the existence
of these legends is in itself a new mystery, an instance of
the creative influence across thousands of years of a single
name; beyond all doubt the most remarkable instance of
its kind, by virtue of the span of time which it covers and
the undiminished vigor which it displays, that is to be
found in human history.
The origin of most of these legends is unknown; they
are an anonymous tribute; and this is a fitting circum-
stance in connection with the man who rejected the Offer
to be glorified by giving his name to a people sprung from
his loins in order that he might, instead, give form and
will and destiny to the people into which he had been born.
Many nations have writ their name in water since the
days when an unknown poet gave to Moses, alone on the
mountain top, the fore-knowledge of the history of the
settled tribes; that poet, were he living now, would have
to bring the entire globe of the earth under the eyes of
the seer, and lands and peoples not mentioned in the rec-
ords of those days would extend, in a prophetic panorama,
round the base of the mountains.
If in that brief instant of the vision, the leader who
was about to the saw the eighty generations which divide
us from him, saw all their struggles and defeats and tri-
umphs, all their labors and achievements, their defections
and returns; if he followed all their bitter pilgrimages,
tasted their hopes, shared their disappointments and felt,
with them, the constant renewal of purpose—if all this was
revealed to him, the vast future was only commensurate
with the sufferings he had known in welding this people
together, and with the will-pov er he had poured into it.
For, born in a land which had entrusted its immortality
to stone, he had been bidden to entrust immortality only
to an idea. And, turning from prophecy to memory, he
could recall the process, in which he had been the chief
instrument, which had created this perdurable spirit.
He saw an empire stretched a !ong a river. The temples
of Egypt were inhabited by god 1, half-human and half-
animal, more monstrous than the reptiles which swarmed
about the banks of the Nile; the pyramids housed the
mummies of dead emperors who, swathed in linen, decked
with jewels, awaited the resurrection. Rigid as the basalt
which the slaves tugged in vast blocks from the quarries
by the Red Sea, cruel and unrelenting as the sphinxes
which have becomes its symbol, this empire rested on the
shoulders of peoples crushed and broken.
And among these peoples one. the most abject, the
slave of slaves, had been entrusted to hint with the com-
mand: "Make of this rabble, which has all but lost the
memory of its great origin, which cries to its God for help
but is ready to forget Him, which waits for a leader but
will rebel against hint—make of this rabble a people of
freemen, with a lofty religion, a vision and an immortal
future."
And having accepted this sublime commission, he
learned, as all leaders of peoples have learned (but in his
case it is recorded with a directness and power which have
not their parallel in other annals) that oppressors and
qxternal enemies are like shadows comparerd with the
stubborn evil that can linger within. And against this
internal foe he expended most of his genius. Under the
shadow of his power the slaves had marched out of Egypt,
believing that their triumph was complete; and on the
shores of the Red Sea, meeting their first danger, they.
whose backs still carried the welts of the lash. regretted
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their liberation. Their first experience of hunger and
thirst in the desert awakened, not fortitude, but a longing
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on the mountain top whence he would bring down the
iron rules which make liberty possible, they reverted—
as if they had not been eye-witnesses of the vanity of such
worship—to the pitiful superstitions whose practitioners
they had defeated and left behind in Egypt.
Forty years the leader shepherded them in the wilder-
ness, shielding them alternately from armed foes and from
the consequences of their own slaving habits. And in
these forty years he saw the generation of slaves, which
had been born in the shadow of the prison house they
bad themselves erected. replaced by its children, sons and
daughters of the desert. inheritors of the word delivered
to them at Sinai. Yet even they, at the frontiers of the
land which they had come to claim, were almost prepared
to turn back (the desert ovoidal have swallowed them for-
ever, to be forgotten with a thousand other nameless no-
mad tribes) from the scene of their future glories because
of a rumor of obstacles that awaited them.
— Ile had given them law and organization and an
understanding of Divinity. He had revived in them the
character of their forefathers (concerning whom they hod

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