Jews and Athletics - - From Isaiah to David Ben-Garion

"Can you stand on your head?" he
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
was asked. "I want the job of acro-
(Copyright. 1964, JTA, Inc.)
Israel seems to be quite sport- bat, not prime minister," he re-
minded. Not long ago, I read of an plied.
We Jews have never been what
Israeli ambassador being hailed, I
believe it was in Thailand, as the you might call an excessively ath-
representative of a great basket- letic people. Or perhaps I should
ball playing nation. Even David say. Jews went in for a kind of
Ben-Gurion can perform athletic spiritual athleticism. W h o is
feats, such as standing on his head. strong? they asked. He who can
They used to tell the story a few conquer his evil impulses; he is
years back of the acrobat in Israel the strong man.
who applied for a job at the circus.
In the days of the Bible, Jews
also had their normal athleticism.
They played ball. I don't know
whether they developed any such
great pitchers as the present Sandy
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while at his studies. Sitting over
the folios of the Talmud, they
swayed their bodies to and fro and
they did the same at prayers. So

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they could recite "Shmona Esra,"
and get their exercise at the same
time.
This may sound amusing, but it
seems to be the natural system.
The Greek philosophers found also
that the mind worked best when

accompanied by a m ild-not via-
lent-physical activity, hence the
name "peripatetic" (walking about)
applied to certain philosophers.

Everybody has felt at times that

his thinking seems to work often
at its best, not when he's straining,
but is indulging in some exercise
like walking.

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