Friday, August 30, 1963 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — 8

Israel's First Settlers' Year

By S. SHECIIARYAH

Duty to Study the Torah

From Moses Maimonides
by night. These were the dis-
fathers had never ceased, and Jerusalem in order to inaugu-
`Mishneh Torah'
tinguished men who handed
Jews kept coming to Erez Israel rate "First Settlers Year." It
Every Israelite is obligated to down the oral tradition from
at all times and in all periods. was from Jerusalem that Yoel
man to man as it was received
The government of Israel faced Moshe Salomon, who forsook study the Torah, whether he is from
the mouth of Moses our
rich
or
poor,
in
good
health
or
the
pen
for
the
hoe,
David
a difficult problem when it had
Teacher.
How long is a man
physically
afflicted,
very
young
to decide on "Shenat Harishonim" 1 Gutman and Joshua Stamper,
or so old that his strength fails obligated to study the Torah?
the
three
founders
of
Petah
1 —Thanksgiving Year in honor of
Hebrew Corner
Tikva, set out in 18'76. Today, him. Even if one is so poor that Till the day of his death, as it
the first settlers.
is written, "Lest they (the
When it decided on the year 84 years afterwards, Petah he is supported by public or words of the Torah) depart
private
charity,
or
if
one
is
mar-
Tikva
is
a
flourishing
city
in
of the first aliya some 80 years
from thy heart all the days of
I ago. as marking the inception of Israel with a population of ried and is the father of a thy life" (Deut. lv, 9). For as
large
family,
he
is
still
bound
65,000.
1 modern Jewish settlement, it
soon as a man ceases to study
Mordechai Ardon began to paint
Among those who came up to to set a definite time for the he begins to forget
through an incident. In the village in bore in mind the fact that it a-
study
of
the
Torah
both
during
which he was born it was decided ` forded an opportunity not only 1Jerusalem for the celebration was
to decorate the synagogue's ceiling of communing with the memory 93-year-old Abraham Shapira, the the day and during the night,
with paintings. The head of the com-
as it is written, "Thou shalt
IF YOU TURN THE
munity invited a well known painter, of those first pioneers, but also oldest surviving member of
who observed the Mitzvoth to paint in some way of honoring the 27 1"Hashomer," the Jewish Watch- meditate therein (in the Torah)
the Holy animals on the ceiling: The
day and night" (Josh. 1, 8). .
.
Gazelle, the Lion, the Eagle and the survivors of those stalwarts and men's Organization, who became
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
Tiger; as is stated in the Mishna: Be their nearest kin. It was intended a legend in his life-time. There
Among the eminent sages of
courageous as the Tiger, light as the
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
Eagle, run fast as the Gazelle and to mark the beginning of actual was also 95-year-old Abraham Israel there were hewers of
strong as the Lion — to do the will settlement work and to honor I Yizhak Lefkovitch, the oldest wood, drawers of water, and
of your Father in Heaven. It is the !
some who were even afflicted
custom to write this saying on the those who laid the foundations resident of Rehovoth, who ar-
walls of the synagogues and in sever- for the Jewish villages in Eretz rived in Eretz Israel 80 years ago with blindness. Yet they de-
al places it is even the custom to
voted themselves to the study
paint these holy animals on the walls. Israel, from Rosh Pina in the and who in the course of the
Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich.
The little seven year old Mordechai North to Gedera in the South. ceremony at "Binyanei Ha'ooma", of the Torah both by day and
followed after the painter who stood
the
National
Conventions
Center,
If there is any truth in the
on the high ladder and he tried to
do below what the painter did above. saying that it is the plough that pronounced the "Sheheheyanu"
BUY THE
The painter, that noticed the boy in
and another benediction to God
his work, turned to his father and established the frontiers of this
BEST—PAY LESS
told him that his son is very capable country, there can be no doubt "for having imparted of His glory
in painting and it is payable to en-1
WITH
unto the State of Israel and the
able him to study art. The father that those first 14 villages made
answered, "My son will be an artist? their decisive contribution Government of Israel."
Is this an honorable trade for a Jew-
ish boy?" The father hurried to drive towards that great day of the
AT
out the "bad spirit" from the boy's establishment of the State. These
Dictators are anti-Semitic be-
mind, by the assistance of ringing were: Petah Tikva, Mikveh Is-
cause they know or sense that
slaps on the cheek.
But Mordechai did not give up his rael (today an agricultural train- liberty is Semitic in origin and
MILT LEVIN
ALLEN CHARNES
dream. He tried to find a way to
learn the art of drawing. He found ing school, but in its early begin- character —ABBA HILLEL
14505 MICHIGAN AVE.
T1 6-1122
a way. One day he wrote to Kaiser nings a village established by SILVER.
Franz Joseph and asked for a scholar- the Allianco Israelite Universelle
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ship to learn drawing. Mordechai re-
ceived no reply, and in the mean- in 1870), Rishon LeZion, Rosh
while World War I broke out. One Pina, Zichron Yaakov, Ness Ziona,
day he received a letter from Rabbi
Kaminka, the chief Rabbi of Vienna. Mazkeret Batya (Ekron), Reho-
In the letter, the Rabbi notified him voth, Bat Shlomo, Gedera, Ha-
that the alliance Israel organization
(that was headed by Baron Roth- dera, Yessod Hamaala and Mish-
child) was ready to give him the mar Hayarden • (at one time a
scholarship.
In the year of 1933, Ardon came to flourishing settlement in the
Israel and became a member of the eastern section of Upper Galilee
Kiryath Anavim Kibbutz, where he I
raised bees. "You could have been a which fell to the Syrians in the
great bee raiser," said the man in War of Liberation and now lies
charge of the bee hives, "It is too
bad you wasted your time at draw- deserted in the demilitarised
ing . . ."
zone).
The friends of CHABAD-LUBAVITCH are grateful
On Independence Day of 5723 Ar-
It was most symbolic that
don received the highest • Award of ;
the State of Israel for his "Wasted
the score or so of remnants
to the Jewish Communities of Michigan, who gen-
life" — he received the "Israel ,
of the first settlers of the
Award."
Translation of Hebrew Column.
first 14 villages in the coun-
Published by Brith Ivrith Olamith,
erously supported
try undertook a pilgrimage to
Jerusalem

It is no easy matter to establish
who were the first modern set-
tlers on the land in Eretz Israel,
for the yearnings of the Jewish
people for the land of their

The Israel Award
to Ardon Artist

MILT or ALLEN

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Healthy and Joyous New Year, and the blessing

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