DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-71
Thoughts and Reflections
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Friday, September 11, 1953
Sincere Wishes for a Most Happy New Year
wealth of arguments from Holy .
By RABBI MOSES FISCHER
nah through love and hospitali- literature, when a fanatic in-
terrupted him by saying: "The
Rabbi Abraham Kook, the late ty. Therefore the Torah posites G'dole of Hungary, the lumina-
Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, "Love thy fellowman as thy- ries of Hungary, interpret these
interpreted the essence of Jew- self" as the center of our Faith. passages differently!" Rabbi
ish religious life in the follow-
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Berlin looked with his luminous
ing words: One of the names of
Rabbi Meir Berlin, the Mizra- eyes at the questioner and an-
God, according to our tradition. chi leader, was invited to speak swered: "Our religious code, the
is Shalom, peace, while the seal in Budapest after the first Shulchan Aruch, knows only
of God, according to the same World War. At that time, proud
Yisrael,' the luminaries
tradition, is Emeth, truth.
and isolationist Hungarian Jews of Israel—the Shulchan Aruch
Once Rabbi Kook was asked had already learned, through does not know anything of
by an intimate friend what he the acts of the white terror, po- `G'dole Hungary,' the luminaries
should do with his only son who groms and atrocities, the true of any other single country."
became estranged and indiffer- nature of Himgarian chivalry
One day, before his passing.
ent to the religion of his fath- and the vanity of their own Rabbi Berlin was visited by an
ers. Rabbi Kook answered: false chauvinism. Rabbi Berlin investigating commission to in-
"Love him still more than you spoke on the great principles of terview him in regard to the
have loved hitherto!" Abraham, Zionism and Mizrachi to a large internationalization, or rather
the first monotheist, led pagans and distinguished audience, sup- the division, of Jerusalem. Rab-
under the wings of the Shechi- porting his statements with a bi Berlin received the Commis-
sion at his sick bed, listened.to
the Commission's arguments
with his mind never more bril-
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liant, lucid and penetrating. He
gave the following answer:
Happy New Year to All
"There is a cardinal difference
between the position Jerusalem
occupies in Israel and between
the relationship of other capi-
tals to their respective countries.
Other capitals constitute merely
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a part, admittedly an important
and most vital part of their
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countries. The national spirit of
the respective people, their great
historical monuments and mem-
ories, the scenes of their
achievements and distinction,.
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are dispersed over their whole
national territory. The best that
can be said of their capital is
that their national spirit and
historical culture manifests it-
self more intensively and pul-
sates more vividly in it than in
other points of the realm. There-
fore, there is a possibility for .
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the country to continue without.
its capital. How different is the
relationship of Jerusalem to the
Holy Land! It is not Jerusalem
which is a part of Israel, rather
does Israel constitute a part of
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Jerusalem! The whole of the
Land is hallowed and sanctified,
because it forms the background,
the historic stage around Jeru-
salem. It is Jerusalem that lends
the atmosphere of sanctity, of
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country. Without Jerusalem Is-
rael will be but another waste-
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