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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Friday, April 4) 1947
For a Happier World,
Study Pesach Lesson
Passover First Taught Man's Duty
to Shape His Life for Welfare of All
differences and cultural distinc-
needs poignantly, desperately, is ence which contains them all: tions "man's common humanity."
a great purpose for which to be humanity.
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Only he who gives priority to
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free.
what all men have in common
over what differentiates every
In our day the earth has been A RARE FREEDOM
THE NOBLEST AND most sig- man from every other man, can
made by the magic of technology
and engineering into "one world." nificant freedom is the freedom to know the full and vital meaning
Is this and end in itself? Can be human, the opportunity to ex- of this freedom to be human.
Unless we have faith in man,
science and technology ever give press that which reflects our own
us a solution to our living and true self, that which stamps us as there can be no really or signifi-
persons. And it is a very rare cantly free world. It is not
dying, a goal to our freedom?
freedom. It is still denied to mil-
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Does the possibility of tremen- lions today, who are compelled to
dous power ever give men any agree to what others want them
sense of what power is to be used to do or believe.
for? Let us not delude ourselves.
It is denied to rich, as well as
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Power and freedom are means to to millions of poor and economic-
an end, not ends in themselves.
ally dependent men. It is denied
Even individuals tare not ends in to anyone who must from the out-
set conform to special standards
themselves, but means for the re- which overshadow, twist, or cor-
alization of an end, which, never- rupt his essential humanity. It is
theless, they create themselves denied to anyone who as he grows
when they work hand in hand through childhood is made to be-
within the only frame of refer- lieve in the inherent sinfulness of
"human nature."
Freedom to be human can exist
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the foundation of their individual
which is not freedom for some-
By RABBI J. BURNSTEIN
thing. We want to be free. What
THERE IS NO other festival for?
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In the Jewish calendar so uni-
versal and appealing in its mes- PURPOSE NEEDED
sage as is Passover. Passover is
THIS IS TIIE CRUCIAL ques-
primarily the festival of freedom tion which must be answered by
The dream of freedom is no new mr generation and answered in
thing In human life.
clarity. We have just passed
For the idea which it repre- through the torturous experience
sents men have been ready to )f a global war, and we have
sacrifice themselves in every age succeeded in ensuring those con-
and the course of human develop- ditions that are essential for the
ment may be traced, at least in preservation of human liberty —
recent times, by the answers men one might even say for survival
have given to Its challenge.
of the human soul.
But Israel alone has given the
We have fought for freedom,
principle of freedom classic and we have at last won (at what a
religious expression at its very cost!) the glorious free road that
inception as a people, and Jewish leads to freedom. What are we
tradition enshrined Its historic going to do with it?
liberation from Egyptian slavery
Give any man a fully valid, a
in the Feast of Passover.
real and potent purpose, to strive
The word "freedom" means for. Then freedom to strive after
many different things to different that purpose will have a quicken-
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people. We all want to be free; ing, a stirring significance.
but what is freedom, when are we
But if the goal implied in the
free?
granting or the winning of free-
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Let us have the courage to ad- dom is but meager and puny,
mit that modern man's concept of there can be no creative meaning
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freedom has been in most cases in the state of freedom. What
one of rebellion, a negative idea. humanity needs today, what it
It has meant, at least in recent
centuries, freedom from various
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autocracy, plutocracy and heir-
archy.
We have established our right to
freedom on the emotional basis
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of our repudiation of intolerable
bonds — political, social, religious,
economic, and ideological. We
have wanted freedom as a pro-
test. It has always been freedom
from something, or freedom of
something, freedom of press,
thought, or assembly.
We have rarely stopped to con-
sider that there is very little sense
or power in a kind of freedom
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