With a Little Bit of Hutzpah

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Young Dentist Goes Behind Arab Curtain

Simcha Feingold wanted to see
the Holy Land as he had read
about it in the Bible. So, wearing
an Arab burnoose instead of his
usual yarmulke, the 26-year-old
Yeshiva University alumnus cross-
ed into Arab territory.
He recently returned with a
story of fear—and hutzpah (nerve).
Feingold was well prepared for
his adventure. While at Temple
University, where he majored in
dentistry, Feingold learned Arabic
on his own. He was able to speak
it fluently by the time he set off
to the Middle East.
The Washington Heights, N.Y.,
native chose Lebanon as his first
stop. He was granted a visa only
after assuring authorities that his
reason for visiting the country was
to engage in his favorite pastime,
mountain climbing.
On his way there, Feingold met
a Midwestern professor in Cyp-
prus, who provided him with a
list of references and contacts
and told Feingold how to act and
what to say.
Feingold recalled how horrified
he was on the train to Beirut:
"For the first time in my life I
was surrounded by Arabs. Arabs
to me meant only violence."
He conversed with many of them
while in Beirut. One of them was
an official of a Saudi-Arabian oil
concern. "It was most difficult to
control my feelings when I heard
Arabs speak out against Israel and
the Jews in the most vile terms,"
he said.
Next stop was Jordan. On his
visa application, Feingold wrote
_ after the query on religion, "Pro-
test." Officials took it to mean
Protestant. Feingold had something
else in mind:
Where the application called for
nationality, Feingold filled in
names and addresses of Jordanian
citizens as supplied by the Mid-
western professor. Many priests
were listed, and the authorities ap-
proved it.
During his five days in Jordan,
Feingold was referred to as "the
American doctor" and while in
Amman met many Jordanian dig-
nitaries as the guest of an indus-
trialist whose name was on the
magic list. _
Wearing his Arab burnoose, he
managed to visit places of the
Bible and Jewish history, always
afraid he might be taken as a
Jew and accused as a spy.
He believes he is the first Jew to
pray at the Wailing Wall, site of

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At the end of his "vacation,"
Feingold returned to Israel through
the Mandelbaum Gate. Guards
were somewhat astonished he said
when he whipped off his burnoose
and donned a yarmulka.

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Issued by Publication Society-

Rabbi Philip Goodman, who al-
ready has to his credit two excel-
lent anthologies on Passover and
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Viewing mar-
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was partitioned in 1947. He was
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of ceremonies objects of ketuboth,
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Devotion to Torah

"The duty of studying the Torah
rests upon every Jew, whether he
be rich or poor, whether he be in
sound health ar an invalid, wheth-
er he be young or very old. Even
the beggar who goes from door to
door, and even a married man with
a large family.
"One who cannot learn because
he is totally ignorant, or because
of the distraction of his occupa-
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others to learn .. .
"Until when must one study? Un-
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is said, 'Lest these words depart
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life' (Deuteronomy 4:9). So long
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Otherwise, he must fulfill the com-
mandment and afterwards return
to his studies .. .
"Let a man always devote him-
self to Torah, even though he does
it not for its own sake, because in
the end he will come to study for
its own sake . . . "—from the
Shulchan Aruch.

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