Friday, November 30, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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not fear, at the sight of the
Chanukah Speaks to Mr. and Mrs. World
Germans. I was no longer trap-
ped like a rat. I do not remem-
And we have the flaming mem-
ber too much of that battle. I
traditional story of the miracle a degenerated Syria. Hundreds ories of the Chanukah of the
By RABBI LEON SPITZ
left my hole several times to
of the little cruse of oil. The of times has this battle been Maccabean days to light up our
The little light that was the
meet a German who had gotten
average Jew today is certainly fought and refought in every Dedication today.
prototype of the Chanukah Me-
too close to me because I would norah was first lit in the infant more vitally concerned with the age and on every continent —
But the Chanukah lights have
be at a disadvantage if we had
ever so much more significant the battle between good and their unique message to the Jew,
days of the Jewish people by
a bayonet fight and I was in a Moses of the Bible. It was nam- miracle of the survival of the evil, between freedom and tyr- They tell us that the light of
hole. If it was the same man
defenseless little people that has anny, between the true faith Judaism cannot be put out for
ed in a mood of hopefulness —
or several different men, or if I the ner tomid, the perpetual come through the martyrdom of and licentious paganism. And any length of time. They bid
shot him, or them, or had to
the centuries — still a light and that battle has been fought in us cherish the ideals for which
light as a symbol of the eternity
a beacon unto the nations of our own time and before our the Maccabees lived and fought
use a bayonet I do not know. It
of Judaism.
very own eyes — the battle to
was very late when the Germans
history.
crush fascism both in its Nazi and died. And they command us
For
a
thousand
years
the
lov-
finally fell back. I helped the
Theodor Herzl compared, in and Japanese aspects. Our Mac- of Israel to keep the fires burn-
ing
hands
of
priests
and
Levite3
medics evacuate the wounded
his little story entitled "The
ing on the altars of Judaism in
and then I got ready to get lit and fed it within the shrine Menorah," Israel to the Shamos cabees some 2300 years ago in Eretz Israel, America, every-
the
little
land
of
Judaea
threw
—
first
in
the
Tabernacle
and
some sleep, if I could. Just be-
light. The Shamos kindles all
where on God's earth.
fore I got settled word came subsequently in Solomon's Tem- the other Chanukah lights, but the gauntlet in the face of the
Empire
of
Satan.
It
was
their
and
after
a
lapse
during
—
ple
down the line that there were
it remains, so far as the dignity
only thirty men out of about the Babylonian exile—still again and sanctity and the glory of triumph whcih gave the unques-
Chanukah Greetings
one hundred and fifty who in the Second Temple following the festival are concerned, still tioned assurance to the recur-
ring generations of Maccabees,
started who had not been in- the return of Prince Zerubbavel, the mere servant. So with Is-
Hannan Real Estate
both Jews and Gentiles — in
jured. I was too exhausted tJ Ezra and Nehemiah.
rael — Herzl mused. Israel has the dim-dark Medieval centu-
And
then
the
bloody
days
bother worrying about that.
brought light unto the nations,
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just wanted to get some rest. which immediately preceded the but Israel has remained the ries, and in the modern wars of
General Real Estate
but, for some reason, I looked Chanukah Festival put the light mere servant without luster and liberation — the unquestioned
and Property
at the sky. The sky was clear out, but the Maccabean heroes without dignity — both in name assurance that, at the price of
sacrifice and martyrdom, Right
and I could see one lonely star relit it and in their exultation— and in fact.
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shall triumph over Might.
enhanced it into an illumination
shining brightly in the blue.
However, it should be recog-
mes- See us about Mortgage money
Yes,
Chanukah
speaks
its
that
was
to
stretch
over
eight
1 left Germany in June on
nized that all this is on the sur-
(to borrow from Walter
300 Lafayette Bldg.
my way to France. We passed nights.
face. Judaism, despite every- sage
Winchell)
to Mr. and Mrs.
The
Schools
of
Rabbis
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through the same hills that we
thing, is, historically speaking,
as
fought on last Chanukah. In and Shammai differed as to pro- the torch that has lit the spirits World. The time is now —
BLISS
WOLFE, Pres.
R.
the familiar wartime song had
many places for as far as the cedure. The Shammaites wished of men and of nations. It has it — for rebuilding the world.
the
Chanukah
lights
to
burst
eye could see the hillsides were
brought the light of religion into
covered red with poppies. I forth in a blaze of glory and the world. It has given birth to
7t.
enjoined
that
all
the
lights
be
stood in the door of my car
the concept of freedom. It has
lit on the first night and then
• and kept thinking over and over decrease in number on each suc- imparted to life the flavor of
Chanukah Greetings!
that at least there would always
sanctity. And these are gifts
be flowers over them, my ceeding night. The Hillelites felt that will endure with us until
To Our Many Friends and Patrons
friends. It would be nicer than that the joyous atmosphere the last of days.
should
grow
from
night
to
night
the cold, the wind and the snow,
For the Maccabean struggle
and the misery of that horrible — and not diminish. Jewish us- was not merely a transient and
age follows the more logical Hil-
winter.
puny revolt of a band of Jew-
lelite practice.
How does that poem go:
We are all famaliar with the ish guerillas against the might of
"In Flanders fields the Poppies
grow
Beneath the crosses row on row."
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