DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-71 Thoughts and Reflections ',F-grgrg. 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- * * * 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- Best Wishes for a Very 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 19315 James Couzens a part, admittedly an important and most vital part of their UNiversity 4-9784 countries. The national spirit of the respective people, their great historical monuments and mem- ories, the scenes of their achievements and distinction,. Best Wishes for a Happy Holiday 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 . 15310 CHEYENNE UN. 1-587h 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 Holiday Good Cheer 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 TRENCHING immortal glory to the whole country. Without Jerusalem Is- rael will be but another waste- 7145 TIREMAN land in the higher moral sense TE. 4-2300 of the word. 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