that he came out of the old world
to take up a new way of life; it
was in the year 1848 he set sail
for this long-beckoning land. And
almost from the very day of his
arrival he began those indefatig-
able labors, in which he persisted
to the very day of his death, to
emancipate his generation, to
liberate his own people especially
from those tyrannies of the mind
and of the spirit which some had
brought with them from abroad.
Jews were not made for Judaism,
he declared, but Judaism was
made for the Jew to be refash-
ioned and reformed according to
the spirit of the place ,,,and age
wherein he dwelt.
From the entangling webs, of
superstition and outmoded rites
which had attached themselves,
like barnacles, to the once spir-
itually pure and morally challeng-
ing faith of Israel, Wise set about
to free his contemporaries and
to fashion, for them, in his new
world, a new interpretation of an
old, old faith; a faith adapted to
the clime and time in which it
now found itself, a faith, in short,
that would preserve of all that
was loftiest and best in the time—
sanctioned teachings of Israel, but
which, at the same time would
bear upon it the noble stamp;
"Made in America" adaptable to
the mind and challenging to the
heart of those who were destined,
under God, to build a nation "con-
ceived in liberty and dedicated to
the proposition that all men arc
created equal; that they are en.
dowed by their Creator with cer-
tain inalienable rights, that among
e, these are life, liberty, and the
sq
pursuit of happiness."
Rabbi Wise sought to pour the
old, rich wine into new bottles.
He was a singer of new things
set in an old pattern. He sought
"to piece the old threads together",
as it has been poetically phrased
by one of his sipritual sons; to
take the scarlet and blue and
purple of the ancient heritage—
the white and gold, the hope and
promise of the western heritage—
to summon the East and the West
to mingle in a better pattern that
either has -known.
Shortly after his arrival in
America, Isaac Mayer Wise went
to Cincinnati. Though it was there
that he made his home, he tra-
versed the length and breadth of
this country, going to and fro and
up and down the land, as script-
ure says of Satan, but, unlike
Satan, doing the work of God,
seeking to bring to his compatri-
ots the vision and the insight
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which were his, so that they too I across the seas, grew to its ful-
might fashion here a faith as lest flowering and its greatest
fresh and vigorous as the surg- strength here in America under
ing, striving, soaring spirit of the inspiration and as the fruitage
America itself; a faith so un- of the labors of Isaac Mayer Wise,
hampered by the rigid straight- an ancient faith, yet adapted now
jacket so adeptly measured to the to the sot and soul of America.
For th1 man Wise was So
breadth of America of the past,
as would enable his brethren to thorough} an American that he
breathe the strong, new atmos- was not content with the mere
theoretical rephrasing of old theo-
phere of .
America and yet remain logies nor in the occasional prac-
loyal, conscious, and affirmative tices of the past. He realized that
Jews. Thus, though one cannot faith is ephemeral and intangible
say that he was precisely the unless it is embodied in living and
founder,
he was
nonetheless
the lasting institutions. In this sense,
builder here
in America
of what
is known as Reform, or Liberal most particularly, was he a gen-
Judaism, a modern reinterpreta- uine American. For, as another
tion of the ancient faith of Israel of his disciples has put it, though
which, though having its origin America believes in all the noble
A Voice From Siberia
aspirations of the mind and spirit,
it is impatient with those who
merely theorize about ideals. It
prefers to work, to build, to or-
ganize, to achieve.
How the various racial elements,
weary fragments of the tired, old
world which have gone into the
making of America came to evolve
this dynamic creativity is for
philosophers and historians of the
future to determine. Perhaps it
was the consciousness of stepping
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