Friday, October 1 1, 1963—THE DETROIT JEWISH NE
SYNAGOGUE
SERVICES
TEMPLE BETH AM: Sabbath services 8:45 p.m. today. Rabbi
David Jessel will be installed.
TEMPLE BETH JACOB, PONTIAC: Sabbath services 8:15 p.m.
today. Rabbi Conrad will speak on "The Original Sin—Who
Done It?".
CONGREGATION BETH EL: Sabbath services at 5:30 p.m. to-
day and 11:15 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Hahn will speak on "Back
to Paradise." The Bar Mitzvah of Lewis R. Schiller will be
observed.
CONGREGATION GEMILUTH CHASSODIM: Sabbath services
at 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Litke will speak
on "Everyman Is Adam."
CONG. SHOMREY EMUNAH: Sabbath services at 6 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Flam will speak on "Creation."
The Bar Mitzvah of Herbert Jacob Rich will be observed.
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Sabbath services at 8:15 p.m. today.
Rabbi Rosenbaum will speak on "The Fire Next Time." The
Bar Mitzvah of Robert D. Aiken will be observed.
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Sabbath services at 8:30 p.m. today. Dr. Fram
will speak on "The Genesis of Judaism." The Bar Mitzvah of
Steven Aron Trubow will be observed. Sabbath services at
11 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Kenny Arthur Michaels
will be observed.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Simchas Torah services at 8:45 a.m.
today. Sabbath services at 5:45 p.m. today and Saturday
morning. The Bar Mitzvah of Laurence Granader will be
observed.
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Simchas Torah services at 8:45 a.m.
today. Sabbath services at 5:45 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Satur-
day. The Bar Mitzvahs of Arnold Zuckman and Aaron Edel-
man will be observed.
CONG. BETH ISRAEL: Simchas Torah services at 9 a.m. today.
Sabbath services at 5:45 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. The
Bar Mitzvah of Richard Harris will be observed.
BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE: Sabbath services at 5:40 p.m.
today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvah of Richard
Berlin will be observed.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Sabbath services at 5:45 p.m. today and
8:45 a.m. Saturday. The Bar Mitzvahs of Eric Silver and
Dennis Raitt will be observed.
CONG. BNAI ISRAEL, PONTIAC: Sabbath services at 8:30 p.m.
today and 7:30 a.m. Saturday.
BETH ABRAHAM SYNAGOGUE: Sabbath services at 5:45 p.m.
today and 8:40 a.m. Saturday.
LIVONIA JEWISH CONG.: Sabbath services at 8:30 p.m. today.
ISAAC AGREE DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Sabbath services
at 5:15 p.m. today and 8 a.m. Saturday.
Open Conference on R eligion, Schools
LAFAYETTE, Ind, (JTA) —
A rabbi told a gathering of lay
and clerical educational leaders
here that, in view of the Su-
preme Court's ban on prayers,
Bible reading and the recitation
of the Lord's Prayer in public
schools, some system must be
worked out whereby school
World's Youngest
Cantor to Perform
at Yeshiva Dinner
Chaim Eliezer Herstik, noted
as the world's youngest cantor,
will be featured on the program
of the annual banquet to be held
by the Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
Nov. 10 at Cobo Hall.
The youngster represents the
fourth genera-
tion in a fam-
ily of cantors.
He received
his musical
a n d cantorial
education from
his father,
Moshe Mena-
chem Herstik,
chief cantor at
Cantor Herstik the Great Syn-
agogue in Tel Aviv Zafon.
Young Eliezer, 14, began mak-
ing public appearances at the
age of five, joining his father
and older brother in small con-
certs. Invitations for solo per-
formances soon followed. He
has already mastered some of
the most difficult cantorial
pieces.
Judge Nathan Kaufman,
chairman of the banquet, has
announced that Sen. Abraham
Ribicoff, former Governor of
Connecticut and Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare,
will be guest speaker.
The Businessmen's Council
for the Beth Yehudah School
is sponsoring the dinner. More
than 1,000 supporters of the in-
stitution are expected to attend.
Proceeds will go to the Yeshiva
maintenance fund and toward
construction of new facilities in
the suburbs.
children will learn "about re-
ligion as an aspect of truth in
Western civilization."
The proposal was voiced by
Rabbi Arthur Gilbert, staff con-
sultant on religious freedom
and public affairs for the Na-
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews. He was the opening
speaker at a three-day Insti-
tute on Religion and the Public
Schools convened here by the
NCCJ at Purdue University. Co-
sponsoring the institute were
the Purdue department of edu-
cation, the Graduate School of
Education at the University of
Chicago and the School of Edu-
cation at the University of Mich-
igan. Those attending include
school board members and
school system superintendents
in addition to other secular and
religious leaders in the educa-
tion field.
"Even if the Supreme Court
had not forbidden prayer exer-
cises in public education," said
Rabbi Gilbert, "religious leaders
would have insisted that the
public school reconsider the
way religion was handle d.
Either the public school will
have to arrange a curriculum
that will enable children to
know about religion as an as-
pect of truth in Western civil-
ization, or, by some arrange-
ment as shared time or release
time, it will have to allow an
increasing number of children
to obtain an intensified religi-
ous instruction at their church
school within the public school
day."
Temple Israel Presents
Kasle on School Vote
The social action committee
of Temple Israel invites the
community to hear an address
by Leonard Kasle, president of
the Detroit Board of Education,
8 p.m., Monday at the Temple.
Kasle will speak on the public
school millage issue which is to
be voted upon at the polls on
Nov. 5.
Holiday Q
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El Marrieds Will Hold Hayride
LZ Beth
The Married Group of Temple ride. Sandy Marks, LI 8-7469,
Beth El will hold a hayride Oct. or Jessie Stern will answer ques-
19 at Upland Hills Farm, Ox- tions and take reservations.
ford.
Friends are invited.
A chartered bus will leave Oak
Park High School at 8:15 p.m.
No man can stay on the
The pattern of encircling an There will be a spaghetti supper straight and narrow path with-
object with a procession is in- at the farm following the hay- out taking a good many bumps.
dicative of the value and en-
dearment placed upon the
object or the person involved.
Encircling the altar with the
Torah shows our high esteem
for both the altar of prayer and
the Scroll of the Law and learn-
ing—prayer and learning having
been our two pillars -of faith
throughout the ages. The rea-
son for making seven such cir-
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of sources. Some contend that
the seven circuits represent the
seven Biblical figures — Abra-
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ham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Aaron,
Joseph and David. These happen
to be the same seven that were
regarded as our invisible guests
during the seven days of the
Sukkot festival in the Sukkah.
Some consider the seven cir-
cuits representative of the seven
spheres of Emanation referred
to by the Kabbalists in their
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description of the attributes of
WE
WILL MAKE ALL NECESSARY
the A 1 m i g h t y. Each circuit
brings one closer to Divinity.
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Some consider the seven circuits
representative of the seven cir-
cuits Joshua made around the
city of Jericho before it fell to
the sound of the Shofar. This
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might indicate our breaking
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through the seven barriers that
tions confirmed in the United States and
separate us from the feeling of
sublime holiness.
Foreign Countries.
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BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
Why is it customary to
make seven circuits around
the altar in the synagogue on
Simhat Torah?
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Why are all the Torahs re-
moved from the ark for these
circuits?
Practically speaking it was
desirable to have as many peo-
ple participate in the seven cir-
cuits as possible. Some took out
26 Torahs because the number
26 was the numerical equivalent
of the letters that go into mak-
ing up the name of the Al-
mighty. Some took out eighteen
Torahs, pr o b a b l y because
eighteen was the numerical
equivalent of the letters that
make up the Hebrew word for
"life." Some congregations make
as many circuits as are neces-
sary to provide each worshiper
a chance to go around once with
the Torah in his hand.
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Why do the worshipers put
out their hands to kiss the
Torah as it goes by?
The passing by of a Torah
commands both a sign of rever-
ence and love on the part of
the individual who happens to
be in its path. For reverence
one rises out of respect to the
Torah. For love one stretches
forth his hand, touches the
Torah and kisses his hand, as a
symbol of kissing the Torah.
Our faith is thus portrayed as a
belief made up of both awe and
love for the Almighty and his
Torah.
New Doubleday Series
Will Trace History of
Religions in America
Charles W. Ferguson, a senior
editor of Reader's Digest and a
life-long student of religion and
history, will edit a new Double-
day series dealing with the varit-
ties of religious experience and
expression in America. Each of
the contemplated 30 volumes in
the series will present the full
narrative of a single religious
body — of Protestant, Catholic,
or Jewish faith—with emphasis
on the leading characters in-
volved in the drama of its
growth.
To fill this need Doubleday
will launch in 1966 the Reli-
gions of America Series. The
series will be comparable in
scope and equal in narrative
power to Doubleday's Main-
stream of America Series. Of
this series, 16 volumes have
been issued to date, and more
than 500,000 copies have been
sold.
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