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Thursday, September 7, 1950

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

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of sounding the shofar in Spain
of the Inquisition, according to
Ibn Berga and other medieval
authorities.
We would hardly expect to
arouse men by furtively raising
the call behind locked' shutters,
Bq JULIUS ROSENTIIAL
as Abraham Manin, leader of
Marrano
congregation, described
THE MILLIONS of men and women who heard the the ceremony
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in modern Teheran.
crisp military notes of the bugle in two world wars, the
But
the
Jew
,ersists in the
Jewish shofar must seem an unlikely instrument for the call
conviction that, just as the glori-
to.arms.. Yet, scholars tell us that the ram's horn was used ous day of the Torah-gift was,
in ancient times for precisely this martial purpose. Today, heralded by the still, small and
the shofar continues to fulfill its ancient function. Like the somewhat wheezy voice of the
bugle, it summons man to action. There is one vital
ram's horn, just so will the even
ference.
more glorious day of redemption
While other peoples were lin- be announced by the shofar. On
proving the instrurnen t for battle that day will the lost members be
Best Wishes for a Happy and
action, Israel's historical circum- reassembled, the scattered souls
Prosperous New Year to Our
stances taught its people to trans- retrieved and the sweetness of
mute the call of the war horn. To- eternal peace descend when men
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day when bugles call to death— shall no more learn and pursue
atomic, hydrogenic or biologic, the arts of war.
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take your choice—the shofar calls
MAISEL'S SHOES for world unity and harmony.
PICTURE A FEARFUL group
The flare and flourish of the of Spanish Jews huddled in their
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bugle call arouses massed ranks hidden places to hear the required
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on the open field. It would be notes. It would have been very
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a squeer bugle indeed that would easy to give up the struggle. All
be secretly sounded into a well that was demanded of them was
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to mute the sound from un f .iend- to forsake a poor and despised
ly ears. Yet such was the mode faith in favor of the powerful and
ornate church. Why cling to the
disguised candle on mother's
yahrzeit and mentally disavow
the bread and wine of com-
munion? Why not rip clear of
the smothering blanket of fear;
fear of the authorities; fear and
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suspicion of the spies in one's own
midst?
Then the shofar cries. It is re-
dolent with the echoes of past
centuries which refuse to be for-
gotten; of heaven-spanned bril-
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liance which cannot be dimmed;
of integral memories baked into

Shofar, Once War Call,

Saved By DP Act

Now Is Voice of Peace

Ugo Carusi, right, head of the DP Commissl on, tells a DP, Itzek Sabin,
1948 he will be one of the
center, that under the Amended DP Act of
brought the good news to
first eligibles to go to the U. S. Mr. Carusl
ng a visit to a DP camp
the 26•year-old prospective Immigrant duri
near Munich, along with representatives of HIAS, the Hebrew Immi•
grant Aid Society.

the heart. It is for all its secret- at High Holiday time it dares to
drown out the bugle.
iveness, a summons.
This year the shofar carries a
It calls to courage in the face of
repression. It bids the Jew to be message not only to the Jew, but
honest to himself, no matter what to men of all faiths and especially
the dictates of ruling bigots may the citizens of our own beloved
be. It drowns out the metallic United States, for people all over
the world find themselves thrust
blare of pomp and power.
into the posture of the Jew in
The shofar bears yet another Exile.
force. It frightens the enemies
We live under a blanket of fear.
of freedom. We can comprehend
Fear
ejects a poisonous stream
its mystery for the Jew, linked
by its voice through space and into the hearts and minds of men.
time, but why are the Yemenite Terror is lauded as the instrument
Arabs, clearly in the majority and for guiding and leading the
with all the means of coercion at world. Fear and terror are
hand, dismayed by its call? Is it clarioned by the bugle call of
truly, as the modern Hebrew force and cocercion. The bugle
writer, S. Yavneili, speculates, be- would assure us that we can
SEASON'S GREETINGS
cause they ''know about the King crush ideas and ideals with
Messiah and of our belief that we bombs and jet-propelled missiles.
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will be redeemed, and they are
The horn which proclaimed the
afraid?" Are they not secure in Torah with its Ten Command-
the trumpeting of the bugle and ments drowns out the stridency of
the bugle for its bears the
the flash of the sword?
• • •
promise of God: "He shall judge
This, then, is the battle cry of betwen the nations, and shall de-
the shofar. It inspires determina- cide for many peoples. And they
in the teeth of persecution. shall beat their swords into plow-
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It confounds the rulers by force shares,
ing hooks. Nation shall not lift
with the promise of its glowing up sword against nation, neither
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