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Hours of Grief

Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Vol. XLIX, No. 4

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17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit—VE 8-9364—March 18, 1966

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"Blessed Be He
Who Judges
Righteously"

$6.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c

World Jewry Pays Tribute
To Rabbi Adler's Memory

From all parts of the globe, from Christians as well as
Jews, from all racial groups, messages of mourning, coupled
with impressive tributes to Rabbi Morris Adler, are pouring in.
Government officials, university professors, priests, ministers
and rabbis, heads of national movements, are expressing their
sorrow and are paying honor to the man who had become one
of world Jewry's most distinguished spokesmen.
Rabbi Adler's death, three weeks before his 60th birthday,
occurred at 7:42 a.m. Friday, March 11, after 27 days in a coma
resulting from a madman's bullet on the Bimah of the synagogue
whence he had guided and inspired thousands of worshipers,
from which he preached amity and brotherly love, compassion for
the downtrodden of all faiths, all races, and kindness towards all.
It became known even during the first hours of grief that
national memorial meetings are being planned in Rabbi Adler's
memory. Congregation Shaarey Zedek will have a community
memorial service after Shloshim, the 30 days of mourning.
All branches of the Zionist movement — the Zionist Organi-
zation of Detroit, which he had served as president ; the Labor
Zionists whose efforts he had aided ; Histadrut, Mizrachi, Hadas-
sah and other groups joined in expressing grief.
Bnai Brith was represented by a delegation of national
leaders and there were visiting dignitaries from many cities at
the impressive service, attendance at which was unprecedented in
numbers and in worldwide interest shown by people of all faiths
and races. Great care was taken for the safety of the thousands
who were at the Shaarey Zedek Sunday afternoon and the many
hundreds on the way to the cemetery ; adequate police protection
was assured by Ira Kaufman Chapel, which had arranged the
services.
It was estimated that about 15,000 people converged upon
Shaarey Zedek to attend the funeral services, but only about half
were able to reach the grounds due to traffic jams.
Hundreds of cars were in the funeral procession to Clover
Hill Park Cemetery and the police of Detroit, Southfield, Royal
Oak and Troy provided extra traffic officers to direct the cortege.

(Continued on Pages 10 and 11)

March 31, 1906 — March 11, 1966

'May the Memory of the Righteous Serve as a Blessing'

In Jewish tradition; rabbi means
teacher. He is more than a function-
ing preacher: he learns and he
teaches. In our traditions, when one
learns from another person, he is to
address the man he learns from as
rabbi. This is the type of man Morris
Adler was: he was a rabbi in the sense
that he was his community's teacher,
and he was a teacher of teachers; the
rabbis' rabbi.
It was because .he hirifself constant-
ly learned that he was so _outstanding
also as the teacher. Rabbis as well
as laymen sat- at his feet and were
guided by his erudition,..by his under-
standing as well as by his knowledge.
That is why the Jewish Theologi-
cal Seminary which ordained him
Rabbi also called him in to teach.

That is why his "The World of the
Talmud" is an authoritative work.
That is why, when people of all faiths
needed leadership and guidance in
the battle against racial discrimi-
nation, they called on him to help
mold the thinking of people along
paths of righteousness.
He was an ardent Zionist because
he believed that all men must be free,
and if there was to be genuine liber-
tarianism in behalf of which world
Jewry has battled consistently, Jews
who have been oppressed and ma-
ligned must also be liberated—and
he had made a lifetime of gifts to-
wards the libertarian Jewish cause
which led to the rebirth of the , State
of Israel.
He was our community's ablest

orator. But his genius was not limited
to oratory: he wrote as lucidly as he
spoke fluently. He was at work on
several important historical treatises,
and he alone could have been called
upon to do the editing of the literary
works of the greatest of the Jewish
philosophers of the last two decades,
the late Hayim Greenberg—a work
in which he was engaged at the time
that a deadly bullet interrupted his
life's work. Wayne State University
gave him that assignment, to edit
this vast collection of writings be-
cause he alone was viewed in Jewish
scholarship as capable of interpreting
the philosophy of our time. We. pray
that that work has not died with him
—just as we pray that the other works
in which he was engaged will not
have died with him.

Indeed, he was a great teacher—
that is why the major task in adult
education, conducted by the Bnai
Brith, was assigned to him when he
was named national chairman of the
adult education department of Bnai
Brith.
There is an ancient appellation in
Jewish lore to a man of greatness who
is called to the Great Beyond. It is:
SAR V'GADOL NOFAL B'ISRAEL
—a Prince and a Great Man has fallen
in Israel. In every nook and corner of
world Jewry, when word comes that
Rabbi Morris Adler is gone, there
will be the first Hebrew exclamation
of mourning: Baruch Dayan Emet —
Blessed be He Who judges righteous-
ly—and appended to it will be the
tribute: Sar v'Gadol Nofal b'Israel.

-P.S.

