September 19, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Wyandotte, Michigan Greets the Jewish Community on the New Year
The chief value of superior""'
he
knowledge is that it leads to a
performing', manhood.—Boyee.
By RABBI DR. H. AUERBACH, Saginaw, Mich.
i ragedy of the Jewish People of Today
tl4tt she was planning a crime. There is no tyrant like cus-
against Naboth, but he was sil• tom, and no freedom where its
ent, either because of coward- edicts are not resisted.—Bovee.
ice or avarice. He did not corn
The sad biblical story of the and was likewise a heathen. She mit the murder and robbery,
wine-grower Naboth, is excel- feared that her husband would but he suffered this to be done.
lently suited for a symbol of be ill. To her, he related the Many would like to acquit
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the Jewish tragedy of our times. incident, not telling her the Jezebel and Ahab of the crime
The Israelite Naboth had a whole truth, for he said that he and condemn Naboth, why was
vineyard, which bordered on the had offered Naboth another vine- lie so obstinate and why did
palace of the Israelite King yard. Really he had offered him he stick to the heritage of his
Ahab; therefore the latter wished a much better vineyard. He told Fathers? All the gold and all
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to have it. He offered a good her this so as not to appear the good of the world could not
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price for it, or in exchange, a weak before her, as she was compensate him for the heritage
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better
vineyard.
Courteously very aggressive. No sooner had of his fathers. All our Jewish
and friendly he spoke to the he finished speaking than her crime was that we were not will-
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Man, but Naboth rejected the compassion for him transformed ing to give up the spiritual and
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offer saying, "The Lord forbid into ironical disdain against him. religious heritage of our Fathers.
that I should give the inherit- "Do you govern the Kingdom of
Naboth had been murdered be-
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ance of My Fathers to you." Al- Israel?" she sneered. She shook cause of his faithfulness, but
though a king, Ahab was power- him and promised him the cov- in posterity he lives on as an
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less. Displeased, he departed for eted vineyard. The queen bribed honest and faithful man. Jeze-
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home, threw himself down upon two men who testified that Na- bel's and Ahab's names, are cov-
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his couch, turned his face to the both blasphemed God and slan- ered with shame. We Jews, our
wall, and partook of no food. dered the king. Naboth was put sufferings are grave but v,e do
In that condition his wife Jez- to death and his vineyard con- not want to be faithless and
ebel found him. She was the fiscated by the crown, according wicked. Our will to do right
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daughter of a heathenish king, to the law. In a large part of and fear God shall be unbroken
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the world today, the case of the for the New Year.
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wine-grower Naboth would be
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closed. In the old state of Is-
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The despotism of custom is on
rael, it had a serious sequence.
At the same time that Ahab the wane.—We are content to
entered the vineyard of the mur- know that things are; we ask
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threatened the king, saying to
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where dogs licked the blood of
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blood" and uttered still other
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is surmised that he did not tell
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the character of her Israelite
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husband.
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No poet could find a better
tale for the tragedy of the Jew-
ish people of our time than in
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this Biblical story. First Jeze-
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bel :—All misfortune came from
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her. Perhaps before her marriage
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to become an Israelite queen, she
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embraced Israel's faith. This did
not change her nature, her blood,
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er and a robber. Why? Could
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Ahab have known what his wife
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meant when she said,
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of Naboth?"
wish all their friends and members of Congregation Beth El
He could have known, no
doubt. He had a presentiment
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