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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

September I

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EMEK

THE EVIL DECREE AVERTED

By RABBI JOSEPH THUMIM

Of Congregation Beth Abraham

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tree." Isn't it analogous t

the
"Remember us unto life, 0 King, who delightest in Jewish people? Here's an !!.he•
analogy if you like. These g .
life and inscribe us in the book of life." Such is the trad- are no longer needed for pit:, .v(N
itional
prayer on the threshhold of a new year. No matter of "conquest;" their this , ,
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when they must slm!,-h
how miserable the Jew's life may have been in his long come
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every-day human battle
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"goloos", nevertheless, his invocation for life was ferverit istence. They must wit! ,
competition, they must
the
above all other things.
demands for tables and
,:eep.
How different the conception of life of our oppressed folds; they must even ra so
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generation of trees which
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu—A Happy New Year
brethern is today is evidenced by the many thousands of /less.
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suicides in continental Europe, and by the urgent appeal Exactly like our own sett1.-!,,,nt k .
after 20 years of the I;-„,.k• s
made by the Rabbis of Poland and Palestine in the name ex
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of religion against self destruction. It is therefore worth-
companion was
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while to ask the question. "What was it that helped the The best thing we can say lit the
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Emek is that in these day, when
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ancient Jew to bear patiently all his tribulations and not it is celebrating the 20th anni-
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lose his head, while the Jew of today is not able to with- versary of its existence, it hasn't
in the least a festive appearance.
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stand the storms of his life?" The answer is to be found In other words, it does not give
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in the precious words of the "Unsaneh-tokef" prayer; the impression of an exhibiti on
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arranged specially for the bctiefit
"penitence, prayer, and charity avert the evil decree." of the tourist, of scenes of splen-
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This statement deserves more than passing consideration. dor exhibited in this amphitheatre
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in the Mountains of Gilboa. Many
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Were this offered remedy always to affect a cure to the hard and busy days of toil still
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"Roah hazerah" or the evil decree, our problem with re- await it, but it is prepared to
live through them, to bear their
gard to life would be solved.
burden and to face the many-sided
We would spend our lives applying this cure. But, and multi-problemed human real-
ity as a "matter of course.”
alas, we find instead that even those who do not fail to Many will be the acts of hero-
pray three times a day, who subject themselves to all ism that will be expected of us,
and the days of anxiety that we
kinds of afflictions to atone for their sins and adorn their shall have to live will be
b
path in life with pure charity must struggle an endure our main attention
!met our direct necessities, and
all sufferings and hardships. We find that these penitent, to
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we shall succeed.
Chairman of the Board
EDWARD D. MANVILLE, F. A. G. 0., Mos. Doc., President
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pious, and charitable people are not immune to sickness
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close at this stage of the life of
To
my
mind,
this
statement,
if
clearly
understood,
is
the Emek. The "Iliad" and the
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"roah hagzerah." "Evil decree" is not the proper trans- sophic. Here begin our daily toils
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zcrah horoah." The real version is, "the evil of the de-
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cree." The expression now reads, "Penitence, prayer, and
charity avert the evil of the decree."
And that is the idea the authors of the prayer meant
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to convey. These learned men well realized that the
decree itself was inevitable. But what they meant was
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that the bitterness of the fatality of the decree, its pain-
ful sting, could be avoided by inner repentance, sincere TURF SERVICES
and hopeful prayer, and pious charity.
INC.
CHARLES S.
For the truth and reality of these words we have
only to look about us and note the attitude men take to-
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ward life. We cannot help but see that religion, the be-
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lief in God, is all important in determining what that at-
titude is. To illustrate: When some catastrophe befalls
a poor and non-religious man, he grumbles over his fate,
curses the day of his birth, and blasphemes the whole
creation. He feels the "roah hagzerah," the bitterness of
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the other hand, when a similar calamity befalls a pious
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heroically his fate. The pious man remains unshaken in
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his faith in the justice of God and in the belief that God
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This confidence in the justice of God was so pro-
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tune. The story told of Rabbi Judah, one of the wisest
scholars of antiquity, illustrates the point well.
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Some Rabbis came to Rabbi Judah and said to him,
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"Our wise men have made a declaration that leaves us
no peace because we cannot understand it. It is the
saying that "man ought to praise God for ill-fortune
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as much as for good fortune, and should welcome both
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with equal gladness." Explain how we are to understand
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The Rabbi laughed and said, "For an answer to your
question you must go to someone else for I have never
experienced misfortune in my life."
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They
knew
however,
that
the
Rabbi's
life,
from
the
We wish all our friends and patrons a very Happy New Year
time of his birth, had been a long period of suffering.
They understood the Rabbi's answer.
Even more pronounced is the difference in the man-
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ner the religious and non-religious approach death. How
shortening.
dreary is the picture of the rich man who denies the or-
and
cooking,
deal of the divine and does not believe in the continuance
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of life after death. How shuddering is the thought of
and dairy dishes.
death to him. He feels the "roah hagzerah," the evil de-
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cree in its most morbid state. How differently a man
after-taste. No
with confidence and faith in God approaches death. Such
smoke or unple is-
a man cenceived this as a vestibule in which to prepare
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himself to enter the better world, where happiness reigns
supreme. And his preparation is ordained prayer and
good activities. Teshuvah, Tephilah, Zedakah truly avert
the evil of the decree of death.
And don't forget-
It is true that even a penitent, pious, and charitable
man cannot avert poverty, sickness, and death. But it is
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than gold or silver. Poverty does not make such a man
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unhappy, sickness does not make him desperate, death
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he considers not destruction. This world, to him, is a
passage to a better beyond.

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