Friday, September 7, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Page Ten
Only a raving egotist shouts of as a kind of temporary balm, 17 stories. The father was saved.
injustice in the presence of the but it cannot cure; "feeling sor- His first words were why did it
dead,. So is it with the Jew : He ry" for another Cannot take the happen to him?
Now one may say such a re-
doesn't shout, nor does he ac- bite out of the pain. Yet what
had
the
Jews
of
Russia
to
be-
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cept. He only knows that it is the rationalist thinks he so ea- mark is indeed beautiful, or ca n
as much pleasure as we can, wail.
unbecoming to lift an impotent sily compounds, is, whether he it what you will, but what effect
they argued. The majority of j It may be that this position of
tongue or flip empty words on understands it or not, the deep- has it? In realistic terms we can
Calvinists though they lived in martyrdom, this spirit, is exactly
the empty air. But his heart est secret of psychiatric theory. give no proper answer. But we
complete terror, imagined they that which permits the Jew to ages, be sure of that. And in
To draw the pain out, either need only examine the core of all
were doomed and forsaken by the face his God gloriously on the him a wisdom and a tolerance through the conscious ploughing civilized religion to see how
for
Lord ; and what was worse, judgment day, and not with the
up of the memory, or by so re- centuries past the loftiest and
lodges deeper than before.
since all had• been set beforehand expected fear. This Jewish se-
Let modern Jewish pioneers. laxing the immediate intelligence most poetic part of thought in-
there was no way in which they curity lies in the benevolent as-
and
those diverse liberals who that all things stored in bitter- sisted that the ability to suffer
could possibly escape or mitigate sumption that the Lord is mer-
choose
to represent Judaism in ness or made secretive through for others is the highest spirit-
their deplorable fate. I caul to the downtrodden. That
our
times,
rant as they will fear reveal themselves openly— ual good men can attain. In an-
There are enough accounts, ab- the assumption is false, we need
against "this weak reactionary is a pt. osaic, description of an ef- cient times was not the animal
surd and pitiful, of the terrible only look about us to know, yet spirit." But let them never, un- fort which is part of one of the sacrificed for the community
hypnosis those people lived under. the hopeful justice of it gives less they risk being arch fools, oldest of mystical attempts. Mod- good held sacred ? Its function
Mental abberation of that kind courage to the imagination which deny the idea that suffering and ern thinkers have steered clear was the sublime holiness; to en-
more than justifies Salomon conceived it and to that poor suffering for each other has of such nonsense, but no less a dure that others may 110 ma de
Reinach's deliberately over-simp- life which so requires it. Thus the made an eternity of that very brilliant psychologist than Huys- happier. Say this is all mystic
lified definition of religion, as "a Jew who struggles, more or less people when they proclaim to be man gives in his later volumes a r ot. Say it has no basis in fact
sum of scruples which impede in freedom, knows that this pri- leading to brighter pastures.
more than flickering understand- --and often all what you have
the free exercise of our facul- vilege is all he should expect.
ing and belief in the truth which ;aid is very little indeed.
HIGHEST
SYMPATHY
No
man,
Jew
or
Gentile
must
ex-
ties." We may surmise, Bunyon
declares: suffer for the sick and JEW FACES HIS GOD
This idea, like all ideas, is in the sick will be cured—take the
under that high law, was not the pect more. The Jew never asks
Thus is it on the Rosh asho-
for more; and hence must pray itself something cold, as cold pain on yourself and the pain
severest of sufferers.
nah holiday, the Jew finds the
for those who have less—who emotion seems to the majority will be lessened.
How, the historian must ask
ability to face his God without
of men, though alien only to
Intellectual logic solves noth- the naturally expected fear. For
again, can the orthodox Jew, struggle but in bondage.
those
unable
to
lift
their
spirits
ing that is a problem to man's in himself, in a sense, all man-
how can such a people, he must PATHOS ENNOBLING
high enough so as to be able to
ask—the law givers, the children
In all pathos, if you can find ignite ideas and conceptions spirit. Any woman of the old kind is. - In his prayer not the
I world can be heard murmuring "one" man looks to Jehovah but
of Moses—how can they, living it, there is something enobling.
under that law as particularly as Christianity has only at rare in- with passion, and with what is I over the bedside of a feverish
they do, regarded as it is from tervals suffered that bitter sad- even rarer—humanity. Suffering, child, "would that it happened
a superstitious and mythological ness which to Judaism is gene- actual suffering for others, feel- to me." It is the most sacred in-
ing in one's self the sorrow of stinct in selfish man. Only the
standpoint, approach the day of ral.
Happy New Year
one not yourself — there is no other day in New York a young
judgment with so sane and so
In the subjective appreciation higher morality than that.
boy and his father, working on a To All!
happy an attitude?
of all misery, the Jew shapes a
It is the summit of saintliness, scaffold, met with an accident.
One of the answers we may bond with the loftier and more
get, if we look no further, is tragic part of man, which no the fire only the most select A cable broke, the boy fell sonic
that a more proud and self-right- mere intellectual quivering can spirits can put their fingers to.
It requires, being as it were, the t
eous peole never existed. Pride manufacture. When the intellect
A. VERDONCKT
cup that draws the sickness from
and self-righteousness alone have (if it can possibly be cut off
Rosh Hashonah
the
unhealthy
body,
the
lip
that
led always to corruption. That from the conglamoration of our
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the Jews still are, is proef of tho other faculties) hears of cruelty, sucks the blood from the fester-
ing
wound.
Modern
psychologists,
falsity of any such opinion.
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Then if it is not pride which dignant. It can clamor and rage and there were ancient ones far
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contention. It is fine, and, in-
Jehovah on the Day of Judg- tice. Listen to your public speak-
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ment, what, if it can be expain- ers to know how true this is.
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