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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Ch,vnicle

Passover Story--1946 Edition

By RABBI LEON SPITZ
Yes, the Passover Hagaddah has
put it rather aptly: In each and
every generation one must look
upon himself as if he himself had
liberated from Egyptian
gage. The glamorous story of
ach has been retold again and
again. It is being relived by World
Jewry in our own post World War
II Era, in the terms of blood and
toil and suffering, and courage
and hope and faith.
There is this fundamental dif-
.4 ference between the wartime Na-
zi camps and the European refu-
gee camps in the occupied terri-
tories today. The Nazi camps pre-
sented a stark and gloomy picture
of utter despair and darkness and
suffering. All the ten plagues had
been wreaked upon the Nazi vic-
tims, including the slaying of the
first born, the Jew who represent.
ed the spiritual elite of the coun-
try.
Jewish life in the post-war refu-
gee camps is undeniably wretched
and physically unsupportable. But
the hope has not died out for a
solution. One certainty is present
in the minds of the million or so
Jewish refugees. These camps
shall not be their destiny. The
day will come when they will em-
bark on the Exodus to a better
and happier life. They are passing
through what may be called the
First Seder Night Period in An-
cient Egypt. Slavery and destruc-
tion had already been liquidated
and the Children of Israel were
there in their slave-shacks having
their meager and rationed poor
man's bread (lechem oini) and
staff in hand were impatiently
awaiting the signal to march forth
out of the House of Bondage.
True, theirs was the will and
the hope to march forth towards
the Land of Promise. But it turn-
ed out a March of Forty Years
through wilderness inhabited by
savage tribes more ferocious than
the beasts of the desert. It turned
'c out to be a Forty Years Mass-
Wandering which included in its
program, quarrels, and tzores, ob-
stacles, and hunger and thirst,
and a Golden Calf, but also a
Mount Sinai and a Mishkan and a
mustering of the national strength.
The million-fold refugee Jewry
today must also expect to face
enroute to the Promised Land ob-
stacles and difficulties. Balaams
in those days, and Morgans in
our own time, stood up to defame
us. Still, there is a solidifying of
Jewish community life going on
in those camps. The Jewish spirit
is being rejuvenated. There is in

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the air an expectancy of Redemp-
tion. Daily, weekly, monthly, the
groups are being released, groups
are being sent on to Palestine.
There is the liberating hand of
American Jewry, of English Jew-
ry, of Palestinean Jewry — a lib-
erating hand outstretched to
these Seder Night Jewries in the
European refugee camps.
Moses is at large, and he still
battles with the Pharaohs of to-
day. But the Moses of our gen-
eration is not an individual per-
sonage. The Moses of our genera-
tion is Israel united to battle and
to liberate those brothers and sis-
ters in the All-Jewish Family who
are still enslaved.
Let us read on the Passover
story. After the Exodus came the
Red Sea incident. After the War
of Liberation came the second
crisis — the Repatriation. There
are those who urge upon the Jew-
ish refugees to return to the flesh-
pots of Germany and Poland. But
even in the face of the Red Sea
the Children of Israel refused
then and they refuse today.
In those days they chose to
march on through every obstacle
to Canaan; but there were also
the two tribes who settled in
Bashan on this side of the Jor-
dan. So in our own time the hun-
dreds of thousands will battle
their way into Palestine, but
there will also be the many, many
others who will go forth to Amer-
ica, to European countries, to
other hospitable havens of refuge.
Thus the Pesach story repeats
itself — in its physical aspects.
Spiritually, too, the Pesach sto-
ry repeats itself. The sparks of
liberty have not been crushed in
Jewish breasts despite every bru-
tal and despicable horror that had
been visited upon them in Nazi
days. That high and mystic faith
in Israel's destiny continues to
glow in Jewish souls. The will to
live eternally has persisted. And
wonder of wonder, the Jew, humi-
liated and tortured as he was, has

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come out of all that horror — a
proud and self-respecting Jew. As
Miss Jackson of England has put
it in her great poem, "I would be
glad to be right proudfully a Jew."
The tortured Jew is proud to be
a Jew and he looks with con-
tempt upon his torturer.

We denominate a spirit such as
this as The Passover Spirit. A
spirit such as this can never be
broken. The Passover Spirit lives
again in the remnant of our peo-
ple over there.
In American Jewry we still have
with us the four sons of the Hag-
gadah. The ordinary Jew who
asks, What is all this? The fik)-
sheh, who would have none of the
Jewish burden; The masses who
do not even know enough to be
concerned with Jewish destiny.
But fortunately, it is the Chochem
— wise in the Jewish way of life
— who persists and prevails in
the struggle to rehabilitate Jew-
ish life.
The charoses of the Seder (al-
luded to in the Four Questions)
seems to point specifically to the
Jewish pioneer in the New Pal-
estine. The charoses dish is rem-
iniscent of the labor wherewith
the Jewish slaves were afflicted
by the Pharaohs. Nevertheless, its
flavor is fragrant, its taste is
sweet, and its effect is nourish-
ing — what with its ingredients
of apple and wine and honey and
nuts. Such is also the labor to re-

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build in Eretz Israel — the sweat
and the sweetness and the joy
and the courage of the Chalutz.
And with it goes the mood of the
Passover season.
Seder night nears its end. The
door is opened wide. And yes —
with a double motive. There is
the prayer of wrath: Pour out
Thy Wrath upon the nations —
who have troubled Israel. Right-
eousness Is the effect of justice.
The world has recognized this
when it ordered the war guilt
trials at Nurenberg and Tokyo.
And then and then only the
Seder Jew welcomes his guest of
honor with the goblet of wine —
Elijah, the Pesach guest, the har-
binger in Jewish tradition of the
approaching advent of the Mes-
siah, the Redeemer.
Yes, the Passover story is with
us again — in its 1946 edition.

Bowling League

Third Annual Detroit Bnai Brith
Bowling Tournament will be held
April 28, at 10:00 a.m., at the
State Fair Recreation Bowling
alleys located at 19600 Woodward.
Fifty or more teams will parti-
cipate making it the largest of
any Bnai Brith city tournament
annuals.
A luncheon will be held at the
Louis Marsh a 11 Lodge head-
quarters, located at 12233 Linwood
ave., immediately after bowling at
which time the Louis Marshall
Lodge will be host to the bowlers,
and the prizes will be distributed.
The tournament has been sanc-
tioned by the American Bowling
Congress and the National Bnai
Brith bowling asociation.
The following officers are in
charge of the tournament:
William Joelson, president; Sam-
uel G. Bank, vice-president; Jack
Feinstein, secretary; Joe Levin,
treasurer.

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