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RABBI ISRAEL I. HALPERN
CANTOR SHABTA1 ACKERMAN
This cartoon is reproduced from "A Picture Parade of Jewish History" by Morris Epstein, pub-
lished by Shengold Publishers, New York, by special arrangement with the publishers and author.
Explaining the cartoon and the
hero depicted, the author wrote
in his book:
The founder of the famous acad-
emy of learning in Yavneh was a
pupil of great teachers and a teach-
er of renowned students.
He studied at the feet of the
famed sages Hillel and Shammai,
and his pupils included Eliezer ben
Hyrcanus, Joshua ben Hananiah,
Eliezer ben Arach, and others.
His life spanned a century of
important events. According to
tradition he was born in 40 BCE
and died in 80 CE, thus living a
full 120 years.
He witnessed the destruction of
the Second Temple and, by cre-
ating the academy at Yavneh, he
passed the torch of Torah to future
generations.
As a member of the Great San-
hedrin in Jerusalem, Yohanan ben
Zakkai foresaw that Rome would
conquer Judea. When the Roman
General Vespasian started the
siege of Jerusalem in the year
68 CE, Yohanan wished to yield,
so that unnecessary bloodshed
might be avoided and his request
for an academy of learning might
be granted.
He could not obtain permission
to leave the city and the story is
told that he pretended to be dead
and had himself carried out in a
coffin.
The city which Yohanan ben
Zakkai asked of Vespasian is on
the Mediterranean coast between
Jaffa and Ashdod. Yohanan ben
Zakkai found it a well-populated,
well-fortified city. He gathered
about him a small community of
sages and organized the academy
which he had planned.
When the terrible news reached
Yavneh that the Temple in Jeru-
salem lay in ashes, the aging teach-
er tore his garments, and his dis-
ciples wept. But he followed mourn-
ing with action, re-creating a new
Sanhedrin, or Supreme Court, and
Katzenbach Voids Order, Lets Sobell
Read Book Proclaiming Innocence
NEW YORK—Morton Sobell, in
his lath year of imprisonment,
now at Lewisburg Penitentiary, re-
ceived the book "Invitation to an
Inquest—A New Look at the Rosen-
berg-Sobell Case" by Walter and
Miriam Schneir (Doubleday and
Co.), on which his attorneys are
basing a new motion asking for
freedom or a new trial.
Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach
countermanded an order of the
Lewisburg warden preventing So-
bell from reading "Invitation."
Final permission was granted by
Eugene Barkin, legal counsel to
the Bureau of Prisons.
Even before publication date
of Aug. 20, "Invitation to an In-
quest" had p rovoked unprece-
dented attention. The Aug. 23,
Newsweek in a lead review of
the book, says, "Now Walter and
Miriam Schneir (husband and
wife) raise these doubts anew in
their book, the result of five
years' labor, at once a painstak-
ing investigation of all the rele-
vant available data and, in ef-
fect, a legal brief as well.
In fact, the lawyers for Morton
Sobell—one of the figures in the
Rosenberg case, now serving a 30-
year sentence in a federal peniten-
tiary—have announced that they
will append 'inquest' to their mo-
tion for a new trial for their
client."
Radio and TV throughout the
country have scheduled programs
for the next weeks, and the Wash-
ington Star review of the book has
called for a reopening of the case.
Starting by quoting from the
book, "not only were Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg—and Morton So-
bell — unjustly convicted', write
Walter and Miriam Schneir, 'they
were punished for a crime that
never occurred.' "
Mrs. Morton Sobell and Morton's
mother, Rose Sobell, are co-chair-
men of the Committee to Secure
Justice for Morton Sobell which
has now circulated more than a
thousand copies of "Inquest".
Among the sponsors of the Com-
mittee who have expressed their
belief in Morton Sobell's innocence
are Reinhold Niebuhr, Dr. Linus
Pauling and Rabbi Balfour Brick-
ner.
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establishing laws and regulations
which had a lasting influence on
Jewish life.
Yohanan ben Zakkai was a man
of deep wisdom and humility. One
of his favorite sayings was: "If
you have learned much Torah, do
not ask for praise, for you were
created to study."
It is said that he never permit-
ted anyone to greet him first, not
even a slave whom he met on the
street. What is more, "in all his
days he never uttered idle words."
He was beloved by all and "no one
ever opened the door of the school
for his pupils except Yohanan ben
Zakkai himself."
These are but a few of many
sayings which have come down to
this day. They have survived be-
cause Yohanan ben Zakkai was so
noted for his scholarship and de-
votion to the Law that he was a
very highly regarded figure in Jew-
ish history.
But of all his accomplishments
his greatest was Yavneh. His fore-
sight and determination helped ad-
just Jewish life to an existence
without a Temple in Jerusalem. He
made Yavneh the symbol of Jew-
ish spiritual survival.
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