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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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placing Jews and Judaism into a
wide framework of world affairs.
What applies to the history of
Judaism applies particularly to
Notable Quotes of the Week
the history of Jewish law. There
DEDICATION
and women and children have are only fqw experts available
Three years ago, Hitler's le- died, nations have been tortured who master both the Talmudic
gions launched their first blitz- and enslaved, to satisfy the brut- soil later Jewish laws, as well as
ieg against the people of Pol- al lust for power of a few in- some branch of the non-Jewish
and. In these three years men human tyrants—German, Italian, law, such as Roman law, English
law, German law, etc. One of
and Japanese.
To the defeat of such tyrants the rare scholars who is fully at
—to the removal from this earth home in both fields, is Dr. Simon
of the injustices and inequalities Rubin, who recently published a
HAPPY NEW YEAR To ALL!
that create such tyrants and book under the name "Das Tal-
breed new wars—this nation is mudische Recht" (Talmudic Law)
dealing with the law of property
wholly dedicated.
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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, and compared with Roman law.
Dr. Rubin, who was formerly
Speaking at Dedication of
a Rabbi in Vienna, occupied for
the
Navy
Medical
Center
1126 Broadway
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more than forty years the posi-
at Bethesda, Md.
tion of professor in the famous
Vienna "Beth-Hamidrash," an in-
LIBERTY
Liberty is the highest gift of stitution with which also other
God, given to man after that of renowned scholars as Professor S.
life itself. Even as is the obliga- Kraus and Dr. Adolph Schwarz
5.703 - HAPPY NEW YEAR - 1942
tion which rests upon all to re- were connected. Dr. Rubin also
spect life is sacred, so is the obli- contributed to the study of mod-
ern Bible criticism opposing the
gation to respect liberty equally
radical views of the Wellhausen
sacred. Man has the same right
to one as to the other, because school. His work has received
both have been given him by the the acclaim of such men as Dr.
Franz Klein, one-time Minister
same God. Fortunately there arc
of Justice in the Austrian Em-
still many of us in the world for pire, such experts as Professors
whom it is less important to give
Wlassak and Brassloff of the
up life than lose liberty, since University of Vienna, as well as
without liberty life is not worth
of the late Chief Rabbi of Vien-
the living.
na, Dr. Feuchtwang. Since 1939
BISHOP MIGUEL DE ANDREA, Dr. Rubin has been in England.
Of Brazil speaking at Chicago. He arrived there after an escape
by plane from Vienna over the
SERVICE
Alps to Italy. It is characteristic
Caspar J. Lingemar,
It is impossible to simultane- of Dr. Rubin's devotion to Jewish
Wayne County Clerk
ously serve God and the devil, science that he refused to leave
and it is impossible to be a good Vienna until his latest book on
Christian and an anti-Semite at Talmudic law had been com-
the same time. Every supporter pleted.
of anti-Semitism supports Nazism
In this book Dr. Rubin rightly
because the anti-Semitic poison is Talmud and the "Corpus Juris"
the driving force behind the Nazi emphasizes the fact that the
power politics which have brought were contemporaries, that they
NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS
European civilization to the brink
influenced each other profoundly.
of destruction.
Dr. Rubin, in copious notes, pre-
PAUL C. MACHASEK,
sents his evidence from both jur-
Vice-president of Czecho-Slo- idic systems. In discussing the
vakian State Council in penetration of Roman concepts
broadcast to Slovak peo- into Jewish law and vice versa,
ple.
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the author emphasizes the point
that the Jewish law takes for
granted certain inherent rights
of the individual, in contradiction
to the Oriental law which re-
gards liberty purely as a matter
Editor's Note:—Dr. Simon Jung of grace conceded by king or
FINE LINENS AND LACES
Noted Talmudic Authority Re- state. He stresses the point that
views Authorative Work of Dr. Jewish law envolved dynamically
out of the multifarious social ex-
Simon Rubin of Vienna.
perience
of the Jewish commun-
The study of Jewish history ity.
FISHER BUILDING—DETROIT gains in interest, in proportion as
The point which makes this
it is related to the histories of
other religious and cultural work actual for our time is that
groups. It used to be the fashion the difference between Rome and
Worth Ave.—Palm Beach, Fla.
in the past to discuss Judaism as Judea is based on the funda-
if it were suspended in mid air, mental difference between that
principle of might and that of
Lincoln Road—Miami Beach. Fla. without any obvious contact with ethics. Dr. Rubin, by convincing
its environment. This method of
study has fortunately been dis- evidence, establishes the thesis
carded and recent Jewish studies that while the Roman Law, ac-
present a successful attempt in cording to the eminent authority,
Rudolf Thering, is based on the
principle that "might is right,"
the Talmudic Law is based on
social ethics. The importance of
MAKE THIS A HAPPIER NEW YEAR WITH
this fact is apparent if we con-
sider that Western Law, up to
the beginning of this century,
was influenced mainly by the
Roman Law, while our modern
law of social legislation (labor
law, protection of the debtor,
famous Health Bread,
etc.) has its roots in the Jewish
Law.
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The author has set himself a
gigantic task; to gather the num-
berless opinions, decisions and
regulations, so widely scattered
FURTHER ENRICHED
through the vast spaces of the
two Talmuds, into a modern,
scientific system and thus make
this law accessible to the scien-
tific world. Such a tremendous
task would challenge the human
WITH
limitations of any one man though
possessed of the scholarly capac-
ity of the author. His work,
VITAMIN Bl
which deals with the law of the
unborn, with the law of slavery,
and with the law of property,
Extra Vitamines
opens the way for another gen-
eration of scholars to finish a
and Iron
very important task of Jewish
science. It is hoped that a trans-
lator will be found before long
to introduce the American Jew
to this fascinating territory of
Jewish science.

Talmudic Law

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Rabbi Sperka Sermons
On High Holy Days

Rabbi .Joshua Sperka of Con-
gregation B'nai David, Elmhurst
at Fourteenth, will preach on
High Holy Days on the first (lay
Rosh Ilashono at 10:30 a.m. Rab-
hi Sperka will preach on the sub-
ject of "From Promise to Fulfil-
ment."
On the second clay Rosh Hash-
ono at 10:30 a.m. the Rabbi will
preach on "When Israel Is In-
destructable."

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