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 Season s Greetings PRESSLEY Beauty Salon 35 W. GRAND RIVER CH. 5656 L Friday, September 27, 1946 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Twelve • 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. 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