THE JEWISH NEWS
Paige 14
March 27, 1942
Our Children's Corner
slaves to Pharaoh, God bade him of the most important legal opin-
He who eats slowly will live
speak to Pharaoh to let them go ions, some of the best midical ad- long.
`free. But Moses feared his own vice, some of the wisest ethical
One should not converse while
By UNCLE DANIEL
pride, and he said:
sayings come from this great col- eating.
Dear Boys and Girls:
He who eats in the street re-
"Let Aaron speak," and Aaron lection of books written by great
This corner of our paper is reserved for you, because the Jewish spoke to Pharaoh, and God sent Rabbis?
sembles a dog.
Here are a few of the wise say-
It is prohibited to live in a town
News is as much YOUR paper as it Is that of your fathers and mothers. down the plagues which Aaron told
One day, you will be the leaders of our community. All of you. Pharaoh would come upon Eyypt. ings of the Talmud to give you where there is no bath.
It is prohibited to live in a town
collectively, will soon he THE community. We agree that we must have And at last Pharaoh let free the an idea of the wisdom of our fore-
fathers and great teachers:
where there is no physician.
a very good community; therefore we must have men and women who Jews, and the man Moses, whose
soul was a star, led them out of
know our history, who understand Jewish values, who know the mean-
bondage.
ing of our holidays, who appreciate the good things that have been given
And Moses remembered in his
to the world by our people.
soul the words of the Divine Light,
This Children's Corner is to be a column for you, and we Invite you and he was mild and calm. When
to share in it by reading and by writing for us. Sonic of you can write the people came to the Red Sea and
poetry, others like to tell stories, then there are some who like to ask could not cross, he called to the
waters in the name of God, and
riddles.
Make this column YOUR medium for expressing the things you he smiled; and the waters parted,
and the people -crossed.
think of and make It your textbook for Jewish knowledge.
And when he came to the Wilder-
- Our first chapter begins with the Passover festival. Next Wednesday
ness, he prayed, and the Manna
evening. all or us will be seated at the Seder table to hear the thrilling
descended.
tale of Jewish emancipation. We will repeat the story of the first fes-
Until one day the people thirsted,
tival of freedom, when our people broke the shackles of oppression and and they quarrelled, saying:
proclaimed liberty as the ideal of every self-respecting people.
"Moses, what hast thou done to
What a great lesson this teaches us today! We are fighting for us? We are dying of thirst, and
freedom again. and we must recognize the value of the Passover story we shall never be saved, although
thou didst promise to save us. And
in order that we may know that justice must always triumph.
thu didst lead us away from Egypt.
The hero of the• Passover story is the great Teacher and Prophet–
Moses.
Therefore, our first story to this column is about Moses Next where we had food and water, with
Nitwit Custom gloat:v.4
false promises."
week we hope that you. boys and girls, will begin to contribute to this
And Moses grew angry at last,
corner
very angry, and he blamed the peo-
I wish you all a Happy Passover and I hope that you. your parents.
ple, and spoke in great passion, and
and your families will have a Joyous Seder.
he took his rod and smote the rock
gh and dependable value
UNCLE DANIEL.
where he stood, and commanded it
to bring forth water. And the water
in clothes is more essen-
MOSES
A LE(;ENI)
thou dust wish it, so let it he. Yet
streamed out. but it was salt, and
One upon a time, ninny thousands . because thou art a great and beau-
the people c,ald not drink it. and
tial
today than ever be-
or yearn ago, a great and wonder- tiful star, so shalt thou become a
many of them died.
f.. , star leaped into being And it great and beautiful soul among
fore, and when combined with modern
And Moses wept, and he cried
was so large, and Its light was so' men. Men shall know thee by thine
out
deep and sparkling, that even the eyes. that thou art not altogether
desi gn, excellent tailorwark and Ox-
"I have forgotten, I have forgot-
presence of the moon nearby could of them. And thou shalt lead them.
ten!" And when the people came
And it and be their master. But he warn-
not cause it to be Unseen
ford exclusiveness it represents an
to the Land of Promise, Moses stay-
burned and shone, night after- ed. Thou art proud and hasty. If
ed upon a high mountain and look-
element of uneq ualled appeal.
night. and the ancient peoples' thou he proud and hasty among
ed down upon the land. but did not
looked
up at It in wonder kind men, thou didst'"
enter.
exc Is I ill 4•1
And the light vanished. And the
And afterwards he disappeared,
ely, is this
'flow great, how
star began to fall and fall, down and the people said he died, and
star' .
and down through the dark air. mourned for him many days.
And the star 1g- re ,' full of pride: •
past thousands of other stars that
But God had taken him back to
it would not talk any longer to all
-
stretched their arms as if to save be a star again. forever to watch
Its little probers and sisteis in 11 , 1. -
outfitter s
him. and then he forgot everything. over the Land of Promise, but
yen. and when they twinkled at it
And so the star became a man. never to enter it. And still the star
to say "Good morning. great ht o
But wherever he went, something was the soul of Moses shines over
t her it kept its light fixed on the shone in his
eyes, something beam- Palestine and calls to the people
earth. and would not look it t hem
ed in his forehead that made men I to come, to dwell in the land which
And now the star h•gar, to
"This is no common person. let us is theirs forever.
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