DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chroirkle
14
September I1, 19-12
New Year's Greetings to all From Michigan Communities
When God gave the Torah to
tions. In examining the physiol- Larger Demand
the Jews on Mount Sinai, they
ogy of men it was further dis-
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became so ecstatic with spiritual
covered that man has 248 limbs
By
Dr.
Nathan
Drazin
joy and holiness that their souls
and 365 sinews. The rabbis hence Credit Noted
Rabbi. Shaarei Mob Congregation, Baltimore, Md.
immediately separated from the
concluded that the precepts of
flesh and flew upward into ether-
JERUSALEM (Patcor) - bur-
the Torah were not only meant
themselves and that, hence, there
Angels."
eal space. For a while the heav-
as vitamins of the soul, but also ing March, 1842, deposits in Pal-
cannot be even a divine law un-
This
interesting
little
Midrash
ens and all their wonders were
as life-producing elements for the estine banks showed a drop after
limited by time and space. A
laid open before them, but then ,omes to mind as we stand on
body without which man loses the having risen almost uninterrup.
two-fold
evil
is
the
result
of
these
the Lord caused a celestial dew the threshold of a New Year and
essential character of man formed tedly since the previous June. In
rationalizations.
They
not
only
are about to take inventory of
to fall upon their forsaken bodies
the eight months from July, 1941
extirpate all possible pen a n c e in the image of God.
and simultaneously commanded our spiritual gains and losses of
Throughout the long, sorrow- to February, 1942, deposits had
for sins committed, but also ren-
the
past
year.
Since
such
an
in-
the souls: 'Return, ye souls, to
risen by £24,000,000 at February
der future improvement most un- ful history of the Jewish people,
your bodies! My Torah was given ventory can only be made in rela-
29th this year; but at the end
likely. Should one free himself, this fact had a dominating influ-
tion
to
the
Torah,
the
Jewish
for human beings and not for
ence. Heroically, indeed, did many of March they had dropped to
standard of ethics and morality, however, from the opiate of these
Jews bear martyrdom, knowing £22,100,000.
we must first accept the principle rationalizations, he would readily
that life is barren without the
inherent in the above Midrash, comprehend the true significance
Torah.
of
the
Torah
and
understand
the
that the Torah was intended to
A tale told nie recently depicts
vital
importance
of
observing
all
be God's guide for human beings.
the same truth. A very religious
of its commandments.
A careful study of the Torah
woman who suffered great mis-
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Man, of all animals, can freely
will also reveal this fact. Is the
fortune in her family was re-
rise
to
a
high
pedestal
of
spirit-
Torah not the divine code of
proached and mocked by her
uality.
Man
can
overcome
his
lust
Rosh Hashonah Greetio„.
laws for the Jewish people, that
neighbors who said that her relig-
for
power
and
can
control
his
demands a strict, virtuous life?
ion was of no avail. The wise
But virtue is unthinkable without animal passions. Man can even woman, however, ably retorted,
the possibility of vice, for virtue improve himself to such an extent "You know not what you say.
is the free choice of the good and so as to make his physical body Without Judaism life would now
the free rejection of the evil. serve also lofty ideals and noble be meaningless for me. True,
Temptation is similarly indispens- enterprises. The Torah was in- everything seems hopeless for me,
able in a life of virtue. There tended as an aid and guide to everything is stark black. Juda-
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can be no courage if there is no man in a life so dedicated.
Wear, Dry Goods, Novelties.
ism, however, comforts ow, gives
danger; no self-control if there
An examination of the various me solace to bear my misfortune,
Notions. Shoes, Furnishings
are no temptations. Surely the functions and traits of the body knowing that it comes from an
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practice of righteousness in the would also reveal certain features all-wise and merciful God, Who
total absence of temptation is no which are not unparallelled in alone knows what is best for me."
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accomplishment.
spiritual life. We know, for in-
Unfortunately we find false
These fairly familiar truisms stance, that the body needs not prophets now arising in Israel
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cannot be overemphasized. Do not only energy producing foods to reconstructing Judaism—as a civ-
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many people who fail in their duti- give it strength, but also minerals ilization—devoid of divine content
ful observances absolve themselves and vitamins to give it substance. and tradtional sanctity. They re-
consolingly, saying that the Torah Similarly the soul needs a body duce all holy precepts to mundane
was intended for angels? Some to give it a home n whch to live, folk-ways and customs. Instead
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even invoke a pseudo theory of but it also requires vitamins of of re-establishing the old truth
relativity, claiming that the Torah character to give it substance and that the precepts are really vita- , Season's Greetings and Best Wishes
was intended for only a certain beauty.
mins, live throbbing cells, nour-
Vitarrin, from the Latin "vita," ishing both body and soul, their
time or place, insinuating that
their Creator is no wiser than meaning life, is something which paragon makes of the command-
everyone must have. Vitamins ments of the Torah dead tissues
are present in certain foods and which may easily be discarded at
vegetables, and till very recently every discomfiture and buried at
scientists did not know what they will.
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Despite these, Torah-true Juda-
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crystalline or amorphous sub- ism will continue. It will survive
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of a special plot of land by the stances, whether or not they had long after these teachings sink
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Finally, the reforestation pro- fully known for quite a long time he misled by fleeting temptations
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gram, which is an urgent neces- because in their absence—by with- and who will continue to cling
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sity for Palestine, has not been holding foods containing these to the Torah, God's eternal guide
Frankfort. Mich .
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neglected. Over 3,100,000 trees vitamins from animals—scientists for human beings, and to its pre-
are now planted on Jewish Na- found very startling consequences cepts, the vitamins of the soul.
tional Fund soil. Of these nearly in an amazingly short time. The
170,000 trees were planted last animal became blind, appetite was
lost, the bones decayed, growth
year alone.
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ceased, mental and sexual devel-
To meet the tragic need of opment receded, and hemorrhages
Le Shono Tovo Tikosevu
Jewish homelessness, the Jewish occurred over various parts of
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National Fund is planning a the body with ensuing death. So,
large scale program for land ac- although we were unable to see
quisition in strategically located these vitamins, we knew how es-
areas. It will add economic sential they were to health. Sim-
Mr. ES Mrs. E. C. McFarland, Props.
strength to Palestine. It will also ilarly with the vitamins of the
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tangible, but you can see and feel
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the effects of kindness. What is
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conscience or honesty? What is,
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intelligence? What is chastity?
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Has anyone ever isolated any of
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these virtues 'so that he could
wrap it up and say "Here it is"?
No! But no one will deny that
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velopment of mind and character
which are the components of the
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soul.
To best appreciate a virtue one
need only to contrast it to a vice.
One best appreciates intelligence
by seeing the emptiness of ignor-
ance. One sees the beauty of
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chastity best when vileness and
baseness are close by. One knows
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people who have no conscience. And
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in the absence of kindness, con-
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science, chastity, and such other
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virtues, one lacks vitamins of the
soul and his soul decays just as
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definitely as the body deteriorates
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under similar conditions.
We have so far merely men-
tioned several virtues to illustrate
how they serve as vitamins of the
soul. These particular virtues
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happen, however, to be only in
the realm of the precepts of the
Torah which pertain to man in
his relation to man. The many
commandments of the Torah per-
tain to the duty of man toward
his Creator, as well as to matters
arising between man and man.
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