Thursday, September 22 1949

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Be Upright!
Is Message
of the Shofar

By DAVID SHOCKER
HE SHOFAR pierces the air
EMILY SOMLYO
with its blasting Tekiah nn
SEYMOUR TILCHIN
ADEN, Is t••• \ ADE FROM
Business Manager
Rosh Hashonah. In ancient days
Publisher
NE HORNS or THE AFRICAN
PutAPK‘N KANT L
of Israel, the Shofar was also used
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Detroit 26, Michigan
(Enid 28, 5709)
Thursday, Sept. 22, 1949
to gather Israel for combat dur-
ing times of war. So its use is
fitting for Rosh Hashnah when
AT ONE 71hIe
the people gather before God in
judgment.
*AWE NOT WED FOR
**OVER N4,4 ‘ 44 G• BECAUSE;
On that day, we get our report
OF -( 44...CONNECT ■ CiN
cards for the year. Our conduct
*ATM -1*11.
'f,oiStm cALT
democracy that is the cher-
is judged. It is a busy day Up
By AMBASSADOR
There. The heavenly typewlitels
ished heritage of the Jewish
ELIAIIU ELATH
EXPERT
so<
going with the speed of light are
people and the guiding light
The Jewish year that has
pounding out the records, and
FIGHTER
-
GUER
I-Lr's
of
its
leaders.
just drawn to a close has
then they are filed in a kind of
fouCoAT ■ N
CANADIAN BURN
Grave political and eco-
been marked by great and
FBI index.
IN
1916
WORLD
WAR
1
16
ROAST
nomic hardships face the
inspiring achievements in
But there is no finality yet. In
young and tiny State of Is-
It( Nic ARAgUAstECAUSE of
Israel at the price of untold
the 10 days of repentance between
Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur,
rael. The road ahead is full
hardships, and gives prom-
EXPERIENCES AS A LsosIALIST GUERILLA
the way is open for appeals. So
of unrevealed pitfalls. Huge
ise that the New Year
Ft GisTER 1N S'PAiN --IN kg' 9 44e-
beat your breasts and confess
wAS AN issraUcToR IN slueR(Ltses
sums of money for capital
which we usher in with
TACJIC S IN 104CIL AND . P4•41 1
your sins. Say, "I have-done evil,
investments to increase pro-
solemnity and , pious hope
' LA-MR IN THE U S
I have falsified, cheated, stolen,
ductivity both industrially
will prove still another im-
coveted."
and agriculturally are need=
portant landmark in the es-
Go to the waters and fulfill the
ed to absorb the new immi-
tablishment of Israel as a
Tashlich ceremony. Cast your
grants into Israel's economy
free and independent state.
sins into the waters. It is said
and develop to the full all
that if you cast your bread into
The war that ended with
the waters, it will return. Alas,
the resources of our state.
such a brilliant victory for
As this Rosh Hashonah of 5710 sin has that propensity too, but
ROSH HASHONAH PLEA
Steps have been-taken to
Israel's young armed forces
approaches, and it is beginning on cast them nevertheless. Get
build houses, to found new Dear Editor:
was followed by our honest
We recently read a comment of the Sabbath, the Women's Sab- yourself clean. Get rid of the
settlements and to establish
and sincere attempts to
Rabbis that "the light which bath League is issuing this call to mud—but not all the mud.
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new factories. The people the
erase forever the bitterness
Sarah, the first mother in Israel, all Jewish women to resolve to
of Israel proudly bear a kindled," reflected its brilliance recapture the sanctity of the Sab- CHASSIDIC TALE
of such conflicts existing be-
heavy burden today whose not only on Friday evening, but bath and re-establish the spirit- REMEMBER THE Chassidic
tween Israel and her neigh-
story of the man who coining be-
rewards will only be appar- from Sabbath to Sabbath. So great uality of the Jewish home.
bors.
fore Heaven for judgment was
There
is
greater
preservative
ent
in
the
distant
future.
was
the
spiritual
influence
of
her
The armistice agreements
value for the Jew in the living condemned to perdition when his
Politically much remains to personality.
showed our earnest desire
The Sabbath candles which the of even one Sabbath in the Jew- heavenly. counsel, searching the
be done to define. frontiers
to bridge the gap and some
Jewish mother kindled in her ish home and greater inspiration records, finally found one good
and
integrate
Jerusalem
in
to closer relations with the
it for our children than any deed to his credit. He, a rich
the State's living structure. home on Friday transformed that in
Arab states. Our continued
house into a sanctuary and its in- other Jewish activity we can par- man, had pulled a poor Jew and
As a loyal and construc- fluence was felt and inspired all ticipate in.
his wagon out when they were
efforts to transform those
tive member of the United within that house.
armistice agreements into
Under no circumstances should stuck in the mud.
The court gave consideration
When one contrasts the spirit- any Jewish woman go shopping
Nations, 'Israel will make
permanent peace treaties
its impress on a troubled ual bareness which engulfs such on Shabbos. Let us resolve, that to this plea and ordered that the
aim atqlhe resumption of
and uneasy world. Democ- a vast number of Jewish homes in with the Sabbath of this Rosh poor man and the wagon be
normal relations with our
up to be weighed. They
racy must find its true ex- America, when one realizes how Hashonah we will do no shopping brought
neighbors for the benefit of
many Jewish children are being nor any of the menial household were weighed and then the evil
pression in Israel. a democ- deprived of their heritage of the tasks on the Sabbath.
the whole Middle East.
which this rich man had done in
racy that can contribute to spirit; we feel that we have truly
With all good wishes for the his life was weighed too, and it
international cooperation given ourselves over to gross ma- New Year, we are,
was found that the evil over-
From the first moment of
and to the well-being of all terialism, have sold out for a
WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR weighed the good by a few
the establishment of our
peoples and all nations.
mess of pottage, and are reaping
SABBATH OBSERVANCE pounds.
State, the doors of the coun %
"Sorry," said the court, "the
only neurosis and frustration.
Mrs. Joshua Sperka
•
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try were opened wide to ad-
man is condemned."
What is unfolding in Is-
"But," insisted the heavenly
' mit scores of thousands of
counsel, "this wagon has been
rael today is a new social
Jews finally coming home.
cleaned. This rich man pulled
and national creation, the
The small trickle at the
out the poor man's wagon when
building of a new society,
start grew into a massive
it's wheels were all covered with
linked by inseparable ties
' flood that astounded the
mud."
with the Jewish past and its
world, for this represented
"You have a point there," said
heritage. Fhat began with
one of the greatest mass mi-
the court, ordering that the mud
By
WILLIAM
ZUKERMAN
the Biluim 80 years ago and
. grations in history.
be brought in, and when it was
(Jewish World News Service)
was demonstrated by the
thrown on the scales, lo the evil
The doors today still re-
founding of Petah Tikvah, MEW YORK—As was expected. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver's article was overweighed, by an ounce.
` main wide open to all Jews
So the rich man was saved by
Gedera, Degania, Nahalal " in "Readers' Digest" did not please all Zionists. The national-
who seek the peace and sta-
istic wing of the movement has been openly critical. The sharpest a little mud.
and
Negba
is
now
taking
• bility of their own home-
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criticism was voiced in the•,
place with a hundredfold "Morning Journal" by its man- in Israel, despite the will of their TIME OF JUDGMENT
land.
intensification within the aging editor. J. M. Nuremberger parents, and exclaims: "This is
SOUND TEKIAH for •Rosh
This homecoming is not
framework of an indepen- whO wrote (Sept. 7):
ZIONISM as it was taught by Hashonah. Let its shrill blast
the sole responsibility of
dent Jewish state.
"Before the establishment of the Herzl, Nordau. Jabotinsky and go through you, like a wind, for
Jews in Israel; it is the re-
it is a time of judgment.
Each new year adds much Jewish State Zionists knew what Berl Katbenelson .. . "
sponsibility of Jews every-
Silver's article in Readers' Di-
But remember that this is no
to that process, a phenom- they wanted—to establish a Jew-
where, and the great com-
ish State as an answer to the gest shows that American Zionism mere unmerciful human judg-
enon
of
significance
not
munity in the United States
problem of Jewish homelessness, has no program. This is why the
the people too sit among
only for the Jewish people physical and spiritual, in the bulk of Jewish youth does not ment.
which in the past has re-
the jurors as it were, judging
but for humanity.
sponded magnificently to
literal sense of the word. Zionism know of the miracle of Zionism their own cases.
the call; must continue to
Let us hope that the New meant to educate Jewish youth in and is only philanthropically
Remember Reb Isaac Leib of
respond in the future until
Year 5710 will play its part the Diaspora for immigration to Zionistic. One cannot be a Zionist Berditchev. How he rose in the
by proxy. Zionism is still the 'NI- Synagogue on Rosh Hashonah
every single one o!* the im-
in this tremendous under- the land of Israel.
Now that the Jewish gathering' of all Jews from the and told God that if He did not
rrNrants is absorved into
taking in Israel and that State . is . here,
everyone is a Zionist Diaspora ... "
give Israel a good year, he, Reb
Jews everywhere will con- except the Council for Judaism
' Israel's effno ,-nv.
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Isaac Leib would make "PoSill"
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tinue to aid and support the and a few Bundists (Jewish So- CANDID STATEMENT
(invalidate) the Phylacteries of
development of Israel.
cialists). And all these 'Zionists'
THIS IS A CLEAR and honest God.
Despite both external and
I convey to the distin- are attempting to wipe out true statement of the nationalist posi- Yes, the Jew assumed that God
internal difficulfes, rovern-
rushed Jewish community Zionism, to water down its con- tion and it fully confirms the prayed even as men prayed and
ment institutions have con-
in the United States my tent ... One can understand the analysis, made last week in these God was no monarch who ruled
sistently developed and
new 'Zionists,' but that a trusted columns, of the divisions in the arbitrarily, that God &tined his
heartfelt com!ratutations Zionist
there has been given to the
leader like Rabbi Abba Zionist movement. The only trou-
everyday even as
and best wishes for the New Hillel Silver should be caught by ble with it is that it fails to pro- Phylacteries
State of Israel, through its
every devout Jew did, and in
Year.
elected and appointed serv-
such a false theory, is very re- vide a satisfactory answer which these Phylacteries, it is written
grettable.
Dr. -- Silver did provide, on ,how that love is the highest virtue.
ants, the true stamp of
Leshana Tova Tikatevu!
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such Zionism can square with
Sound that Tekiah for Rosh
CHALLENGE VIEW
Americanism.
Hashonah!
"LET RABBI SILVER forgive
If Silver's philanthropic Zion-
The Shofar is a ram's horn.
us if we say that his answer (in ism is not the true Zionism, the The sages of Israel said that the
the Readers' Digest) did not rep- nationalists must provide another horn of the ram was selected be-
resent the true Zionistic answer answer to the question of how an cause it was a ram which ran out
to the question facing Zionism in American can be a good minority and sacrificed itself as a substitute
America . ...Dr. Silver who will nationalist and a good American for the sacrifice of Isaac in the
Akeda. So in a hundred ways,
As far as Jewish history
"not half bad." Let us be go down in history as a gi eat pol- at the same time.
itical Zionist, suddenly turned a
So far no one has been able Jewish thought chants the high
is concerned, the year 5709
grateful, then. for 3709, and philanthropic
Zionist."
to show how a person who lives notes of humanity.
was not half bad. Maybe
strive to matte the year
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Nuremberger then proceeds to. in exile in constant expectation
• ,
compare Silver's article with Ben of his "ingatheriag" to his real UPRIGHT HEART
centuries pass before the
5710 all good.
Gurion's speech. (quoted in this home, can be devoted both to his
ISRAEL DOES not want these
Jewish community can
A year of joy to each of column
last week) calling upon exile and to his home. Neither human sacrifices. The siibstitu-
classify a passing year as
you!
American Jewish youth to settle
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