Page Seven 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. ► ► Only he who gives priority to ► 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- (Continued on page 10) 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 Season's Greetings to All 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 3046 E. Outer Drive only where every man can have faith in man. It can only mean TWinbrook 2-2050 Passover Greetings anything to those who accept 4 Best Wishes to All! 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? ► ► ► 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- Nu-Terize Process 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- 6925.31 LAFAYE'TTE EAST 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 FI. 6500 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 forms of despotism, aristocracy, `INIMAIIMINIONVOMMOOM. 11011010.11111111111111111.1111111/111111.1.111.1.11111.11r autocracy, plutocracy and heir- archy. We have established our right to freedom on the emotional basis Passover Greetings of our repudiation of intolerable bonds — political, social, religious, economic, and ideological. 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