Friday, October 1, 1948
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Bible Born Out of the Apostasies
and Aspirations of the Israelites
and prophesied of the ideal so-
ciety and even legislated for it,
but never got down to build it.
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Swedish Anti-Semite
Vows New Campaign
side the boundaries of Sweden,
vowed, upon completion of his
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trial, to continue his anti-Jew-
ish agitation and activities.
STOCKHOLM
(WNS)—
The
CONFESSED SINS
YET, TIIIS disparity between notorious Swedish anti-Semite,
Tell your friends about the
faith and conduct, these habitual Einar Aberg, who was fined for
backslidings and innumerable publishing and distributing anti- Chronicle—the INTERESTING
irustrations, muck as they to
Semitic literature in and out- Jewish weekly.
mented the people, never hart
--
ened into cynicism or pessimisn a.
By DR. SOLOMON GOLDMAN
(The author of this article is spiritual leader of the
Anshe Emet Congregation, Chicago, and the author of a 13
volume interpretation of the
.,,cing puoushed by Harper
and Brothers, the first volu
le of which, "The Book of Books",
was issued last spring and
the second volume of which will
be published shortly.)
Israel wrestled with its cor
TIIE BIBLE is the outgrowt
h of the divine wrestlings, endless science and no less with an it
frustrations and deep opti r nism of the Jewish people.
scrutable Providence that psi d
It had its beginnings in tI le tales of a bold skeptic of whom it double for all its sins.
If it
it was recounted that, havi 1g r----
_ laid bare in its national * liters
rejected the beliefs universal ly
ture its own evil doing with a
adhered to in his day, he s et
openness and ' candor that n O
out to transform the face of t le
people was ever to emulate, i
earth. How he came by his ske a_
also demanded of the Judge o f
,
Deism or new- faith is a questi n
all the earth an accounting fo
easier asked than answered. T ie
chastising the innocent and mak
past buries its secrets de p
ing the guilty to prosper.
It would neither desert it
• down beyond the reach of tt ie
archaeologist's spade or histo r- God, nor cease to vex Him; no
Ian's acumen.
would it despair either of it
Of this much we are certai i;
own ultimate regeneration or o
once, in the ancient world, the e
the salvation of mankind. Am
lived a Jew, or one whom th e
it was out of these apostasies
Jews came to regard and clai n
and wrestlings and aspiration:
as their own who, repelled b r
that the Bible came into being
idolatrous creeds and paga n
practices, groped his way to a
glimpse of the One God, perfec t
3 ISRAELI CONSULATES
in all perfections.
TEL
AVIV (ZOA)—The Is-
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raeli foreign ministry has ap-
IN HIS LIKENESS
pointed Dr. Abram Goldberg as
EIS DESCENDENTS, or a t
its consul in Paris, Arich Stern
any rate some of them, broode i
.
as
counsul in Home and Asher
on this God with such constant r
DR. GOLDMAN
Moissis honorary consul in Ath-
and concentration that it becam
ens.
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the passion of their being t
mold humanity in His likeness. ) image—but it would not abolish
It apprehended the
Never again would they recog - slavery.
size progress or see any pur • vanity
ty of life—but was tempted Greetings
pose in the dazzling civilization ; by the gold of Ophir. It longed
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upreared by the empire build for justice—righteousness had
ors and hoarders of wealth on made Jerusalem its lodging-place
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the misery and poverty, Swea t ' —but, fond of bribes, it neither
and blood of the slave, soldie r judged the orphan nor did it
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and drudge. For they had dis- plead the cause of the widow.
covered in the holiness of thei r
It looked forward to peace
&
tether's God man's sanctity, his but periodically became en-
common origin and destiny; in meshed in the web of imperial-
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His eternity the principle of the istic ambitions of Egypt, As-
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consistency of history; and in syria, or Babylonia as the case
His goodness the coherence of might be. In a word, it dreamed
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humanity or the brotherhood of
men.
They desired nothing more out
of life than to make of their
people the agent Di,: would
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bring the whole world to live
by these insights.
The people responded readily
and agreed to do and obey. It
resolved never again to be like
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unto the nations—but could not
abandon their ways. It accepted
Fine Foods
the Eternal as God—but upon
every hill and under every
green tree it erected altars.to
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