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What Makes a Good Jew
BY DR. SAMUEL BELKIN tage, nor hide his Jewishness.
President, Yeshiva University While he endeavors to serve.
To be a good Jew one must unselfishly, he does not wish to
as a prerequisite be a moral become selfless. Rather does
human being, a good man in
the deepest sense of the term.
For a Jew specifically, how-
ever, the fountainhead of in-
spiration for the attainment of
this ideal state of goodness, is
his spiritual and moral heri-
tage — the Torah: Hence, Tor-
ah learning and Torah prac-
tice have been, throughout the
ages, the main guide to the
Jew for the living of a good
life.
The Torah is not merely a
book of theological dogma, but,
in its written and oral tradi-
tions, contains above all a de-
sign for living.
A good Jew is one who can
create a harmonious blending
between his moral obligations
to humanity and his divine at-
tachment to G-d; a synthesis be-
tween his contemporary envir-
onment and his sacred heritage.
A good Jew is not an escap-
ist. He does not deny his heri-
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he give expression to his inner
self, direction to his moral and
spiritual destiny and thus be-
comes a link in the golden
chain of his historic being. He
is cognizant of the fact that
the essence of freedom in our
blessed United States of Amer-
ica does not lie in a religious
"melting pot" — which seeks
to impose a uniformity of re-
ligious belief and cultural ex-
pression. Our American demo-
cracy is the purest representa-
tion of a society based upon
cultural pluralism where, by
playing his own spiritual in-
strument, the Jew shares with
other groups in the blending of
the spiritual symphony which
is the deathless harmony of
American democracy.
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terize his duties toward his
fellow-men as merely social
obligations. Unlike the
ancient Greeks, a Jew does
not recognize philanthropy
as the love of mankind and
philosophy as the love of
wisdom — each independent
and unrelated to the other.
The love of man is based
upon divine • wisdom. The
Torah is the soil in which
all human obligations are
nourished, and by serving
man the Jew serves also the
Creator of mankind.
To a good Jew, every social
activity is motivated and condi-
tioned by a pious outlook and
a spiritual purpose which
makes it, in the deepest sense,
religious. It is by the con-
stant effort to consecrate his
social and worldly activities to
a higher spiritual and moral
purpose that a Jew continu-
A good Jew does not ously strives to become a "good
achieve his state of goodness Jew."
by the dedication of his
A good Jew is one who en-
entire life to other-wordli- deavors to translate moral and
ness, or by withdrawing from spiritual ideals into practices,
the affairs of our material one who endeavors to integrate
world and physical universe. the transcendental or ideal
A good Jew does not charac- world with the material world.
Judaism, to a Jew, is not mere-
ly a system of abstract re-
i HOLIDAY GREETINGS i ligious beliefs, a confession of
faith, it is rather a way of life
with its spiritual and moral ob-
ligations and value3 revealed in
the Torah that are the funda
mentals, to a Jew who strives
to attain a state of goodness.
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A good Jew believes that
by observing the Law of the
Torah, he becomes a member
of a chosen community;
chosen not to be a member
of a master race; chosen not
to conquer, kill or destroy,
but chosen to be of service to
G-d and mankind.
The Jew and particularly the
good Jew is the eternal torch-
bearer of monotheism, which
means that while he believes
that man was created in the
image of G-d he still re-affirms
that only G-d is infallible, and
that no human being is immune
from making mistakes; that no
single individual can be vested
with complete authority over
the destiny of the group. Hence,
dictatorship of any kind is com-
pletely alien to the way of
thinking of the Jew who is in-
spired by his divine heritage.
As a good Jew, he remembers
the immortal words of our
sages as stated in the Talmud:
"But a single man was cre-
ated, in order to teach us that
if a man causes a single soul
to perish, the Torah imputes
it to him as though he has
destroyed the entire world;
and if a man save the life
of a single person, the Torah
imputes it to him as though
he has saved the whole world.
But a single man was created,
for the sake of peace among
mankind, that none should
say to his fellow: My father
was greater than thy father.
. . But a single man was
created to proclaim the great-
ness of the Holy One Blessed
be He, for man stamps many
coins with one seal, and they
are all alike, but the King of
Kings. the Holy One Blessed
be He. has stamped every
man with the seal of the first
man. yet not one of them is
like his fellow. Therefore, it
is the duty of every man to
say, for my sake the world
was created."
These immortal words of our
sages concerning the immortal
dignity and worth of the human
soul contain the basic philoso-
phy of the Jew, and such a
philosophy, which is the es-
sence of any democracy, helps
toward the making of a good
Jew!
Let us hope and pray that,
in the not too distant future,
the world will rid itself of
tyranny in any form, and that
every individual and- every na-
tion will be able to proclaim:
"For my sake the world was
created!"
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