Study of Religious Existentialism Is Based on the Works of 10 Great Thinkers Becker Re-Elected
that he has not already known. rate right to exist and upon the
In "A Layman's Introduction to
Sabbath regulation or that food
Religious Existentialism," publish-
prescription, was not verbally Indeed, the Jew knows God in a discipline connected with it. Histadrut Chief

ed by Dell (750 3rd, N.Y. 17), Prof.
Eugene B. Borowitz of Hebrew
Union College - Jewish Institute
of Religion analyzes the views of
eminent Jewish and Christian
scholars — Soren Kirkegaard, the
eminent Danish writer, Karl Barth,
Franz Rosenzweig, Jacques Mari-
tain, Nocolas Berdyaev, Gabriel
Marcel, Reinhold Niebuhr, Rudolf
Bultmann, Martin Buber and Paul
Tillich.
Out of this study emerges an
evaluation of the "existential fer-
ment" in Judaism, Catholicism and
Protestantism.
From Kirkegaard, Dr. Borowitz
draws the recommendation that
"the only way to be true to the
sell is not to repress it but to let
it be; by thinking, not objectively,
but subjectively, in full self-ex-
pression; by allowing the person
to stand forth in full unity as he
confronts his world and his duty."
Then there is the view of
Rosenzweig, who: "urged that
the modern Jew should accept
Jewish law in its entirety, ob-
serving it not according to his
preconceptions, but insofar as
he was 'able' to do so. Rosenz-
weig felt that a living, personal
relation with God as part of the
Jewish people under the cov-
enant mandated an obligation to
live by Jewish law. He conceded
that the content of the law, this

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revealed by God, and that the in-
dividual Jew should do only what
he felt God now demanded of
him as a Jew. Still, as with study,
he felt that the Jew as such was
a binding consequence of stand-
ing within the covenant. Hence,
the Jew should come to the
law without judging in advance
what he should do and, rather,
seek with full openness to do
what he as a single self within
the covenant community finds
himself able to do."
Niebuhr's contentions that "only
Christian theology has a tough-
minded enough understanding of
man to cope with his greatness
and his perversity" is severely
criticized by Dr. Borowitz, who
claims that Niebuhr's "work seems
entirely negative."
Buber's "line of thought and way
of life" is called rewarding. Buber,
he states, "identifies two types of
genuine faith; one that may be
called trust-in, and the other belief-
that. The former is direct and im-
mediate. That is the sort of faith
the Jew knows. He is born into
Israel's covenant and hence into its
ongoing, present relationship with
God. He may spurn that covenant
or remain indifferent to it, but all
he need do to find it is to turn
to God and thereby assert that
which is his already . • . Chris-
tianity brings nothing to the Jew

A Weekly Column for the Advanced

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Editor: DR. SHLOMO KODESH

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conversations taken from everyday life in Israel — with typical

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Dani:

Gadi:

Dani:

(son of the doctor): What
are they building here?
They're building a
synagogue, a house for the
Lord.

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apartments—one in heaven
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sudden change? What has
happened suddenly? Why
does the Lord need two
apartments?

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Becker was re-eletced secretary-
general of the Histadrut, at a
meeting of the executive of the
Israel labor federation Monday.
Becker was renamed to the post
in spite of the fact that he earlier
asked to be relieved of his candi-
dacy for what he called "personal
reasons."
Before the election, Premier
Levi Eshkol told the Mapai Party
to compel Becker to continue at his
post in spite of the latter's ob-
jections to serving again. The sec-
retary general received the votes

of all parties except the Herut-
Liberal bloc which abstained and
the Communists who opposed
Becker.

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Religious existentialists have
sought to do justice to the group
and its way of life, but since their
axial point is the individual self,
they have been hard put to give
them the weight they hold in-any
of the historic Western faiths .. •
The traditionalists, even where
they welcome the existentialist
critique, having seen such fashions
in revision come and go over re-
cent decades, much less in reli-
gious history, are far less included
to nut great weight behind this
mode of understanding and reshap-
ing religious existence."
Rabbi Borowitz states that the
existentialist approach "may not
serve each aspect of traditional
religion equally well, and is
not quickly comprehensible in a
technical and pragmatic age," but
that modern philosophy has not
given religious believers more
adequate instruments to expound
or understand faith and that "in
the great intellectual excitement
that religious existentialism
aroused . . . some such new style
may be aborning. If so, it is not
now visible, and when it arrives,
one may confidently predict that
it will show its descent from this
lastingly significant pattern of
religious thinking."

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It's not so. My parents live
in the old-timer apartments
but my father receives
patients in the clinic.

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BONN — The Organization of
Nazi Victims in Bavaria demanded
Wednesday of Federal Justice
Minister Richard Jaeger the ban-
ning of the extreme right - wing
newspaper, the Deutsche National
and Soldaten Zeitung, which has
been denounced in the West Ger-
man Parliament for its anti-Semitic
articles.
The Nazi victims protested
against two issues of the weekly
newspaper, one with a story head-
lined "The Lie of the Gas Cham-
bers" and another with a story
topped by the headline "The Lie
of the Murder of Six Million Jews."
The second article asserted that
Germans were being blackmailed
with the second "lie."
With a circulation of 200,000,
the right-wing paper has become
the second largest weekly in West
Germany.

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It's not funny. The same is
true of my father.
Gadi: This is not true! You just
say so! Your parents live
in the old-timer apartments
and that's that!

Gadi:

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(Direct JTA Teletype Wire

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Dani:

Dani:

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Ask Govt. Ban of Extreme
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far more personal, natural way
than that which Christianity pro-
claims as good news to pagans."
In a summarized statement, Dr.
Borowitz declares: "Religious ex-
istentialism restores the person to
religion, both the human and the
divine. This is its genius, but also
its limitation to anyone who stands
within an existing religious tradi-
tion. Such personalism does won-
ders in explaining and justifying
the place of the individual in
religion. But although religious
traditions must ultimately take
their grounding in the individual,
they could not long continue de-
pendent on the continuing decision
of individuals. They must place
equal emphasis upon their corpo-

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