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so ago I was mentioning here the
10 plagues by which was mani-
fested to you the power of the
I rci God Jehovah. Between you
and me, I think the darkness that
fell over Egypt was the worst of
all your plagues. Darkness, my I
friend, is the bitterest of human
afflictions—darkness of the heart,
darkness of the mind, darkness
of the eyes.
"But we are letting bygones
be bygones tonight. Tonight I've
invited you not to admonish you
of the plagues that God showed
you but to show you the justice
of God in good time."
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THE MASTER PLEADS
THE HOUSEHOLDER takes up
a current event but not with the
vain pride that might be expected
in a man who has seen Israel coin-
ing back home to Canaan after
Chairmen of the newly formed national committee on physical combat with the armies of the
eaucation and health of the National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB). Egyptians who were his masters
Left to right, Charles Ornstein, chairman; Col. Barry D. Ilenshel, when he was slave. He speaks
vice chairman, and Robert Morrison, director of the JWB depart- with solemn reverence of a mir-
ment of physical education and health. Morrison is an ex-Detroiter acle he had seen.
"Oh, friend Pharaoh, I saw it!
and husband of the former Nathalie Marwil.
I saw your people, the Egyptians,
coming to ask peace of Israel! It
was only the other month. Israel
who had been the slave had van-
quished the people of his master
in righteous battle. And I saw
your people coming to ask for
peace of Israel. I saw it! .
"I am not rubbing it in, please
By ALFRED SEGAL
excuse the expression. Since you
'VE BEEN thinking that this year the door we open at Seder should witnessed plagues enough, it isn't
invite an additional invisible guest. And a brimming cup for him! 'my idea to hurt you more. I am
He seems most appropriate in the Seder guest list, considering re- only witnessing the majesty of
cent historic events.
God who in good time evens
After the householder has l remain open for this other guest things up, you might say. The
My
g,reeted Elijah and presented him' who shortly will be with us.
masters come to seek peace of the
to the company and held before good wife, my children, my ones who were "the slaves, and
his eyes the cup of wine that has 1 friends, we are about to receive those who were slaves give a
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been waiting all
' 4 ,.: , had cause to despise. I have ar- 1 The door is closed . . . "My
evening, he
, ; ranged to have Pharaoh with us 1 dear wife, my children, my
makes a speech:
wh o friends," says the householder,
tonight—that king Pharaoh who
"And now, my
enslaved
our
people
on
whom
all 1 army all our enemies come to
I
,
dear wife,my
the plagues were %Sited.
see that the persecuted who live
children, my
-, iiii; "Don't be afraid children. Time by the spirit can not be destroyed.
friends, I have
does something even to the iNit And let us live by the spirit that
surprise for you.
terrible of people. Time has done in the fullness of time we may
We are about to
to Pharaoh, as you shall see.
hold forth to them the welcom-
guest
a
receive
"I raise the cup to him. He is ing cup in brotherhood."
we have never
among us. Pharaoh! We can af-
had here before ,
ford to be generous this year,' 1
Segal
HONOR EBAN
on these occa-
in min eventS that latel
TEL AVIV—(ZOA)—The Com-
All the wears beoWe've having happene
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mercial and Industrial Club here
had the prophet of peace, Elijah, ; have
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is offering a scholarship in the
with us at these feasts. And high- I IRONIC PLEASURE
Israel diplomatic school in horn .
ly honored we have been to have
WE LEAVE the householder
Aubrey Eban. Israel represen-
him with us .
standing, glass in hand, at his of
"I have allowed the door to table while I explain the heresy tative at the UN.
of having Pharaoh as special
guest at Seder .this time I myself
think this is just the time to d o
the gracious, if ironic, thing for
Pharaoh.
There's pleasure in graciousness
mixed with irony. Sophisticated;
old-timers like Jews know how
to combine graciousness and irony
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in a tasteful dish. There's nothing
like a dish of sweet and sour,
such as fish.
Pharaoh has been an awfully
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melancholy figure in history all
these years. Consider the glitter-
ing past! He had plenty of slaves
to work for his living, had char-
iots and horses, had temples and
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tombs, felt sure of gorgeous im-
mortality in the majestic tomb he
had built for himself.
But in time, when Pharaoh had
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been waiting in his tomb many
millenia, archaeologists came
there and took it all away from
him, took the gold and silver, the I
alabaster and the chariots, took
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even Pharaoh himself an d et
them in museums as pathetic rel-
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ics of the vanity of man.
The land of Egypt itself became
a vassal. It is clownish vengeance /
that history likes to take, though '•
it's no time to laugh at Pharaoh:
when we are having him as guest
at our Seders.
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JUST TIIE. TIME •
YES, HIS UNHAPPY ghost
surely is wandering around — a'
lost soul seeking the gold, silver
and alabaster, the chariot, the
horses and the slaves that were
to serve him forever in the tomb
which, they entered together.
Considering the recent event
of history and having in mind
this season of the Passover, I'
came around to the idea that this
was precisely the Seder for us to
have Pharaoh enjoyably as a
guest. The door has remained
open, Pharaoh has come out of
'
the street.
The householder continues:
"Welcome, Pharaoh! An hour or

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