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Levbarg to Direct
Beth El Education,
Succeeding Drachler
Weekly Quiz
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(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
By RABBI SAMUEL J.
Why do some people custom-
arily drink a small amount of
liquor before sitting down to
their regular meal?
There is an interesting Halachic
basis which many apply to his
practice in order to establish its
origin. There is a basic principle
in Jewish law which requires that
a blessing be pronounced over
every food we eat. In the case of
a meal which naturally contains
various foods, the blessing over the
bread before the meal relieves us
of the responsibility of making a
blessing for all the other foods
consumed in the meal. With re-
gards to water and liquors which
are consumed within the meal
there are various opinions. Some
claim that water is part of the
meal and therefore requires no
special blessing during the meal.
Others say that the first drink of
water during the meal requires a
blessing and the subsequent drinks
do not. Some are of the opinion
that every drink of water during
the meal requires a blessing.
Therefore, in order to satisfy all of
these authoritative opinions with-
out being partial to any one of
them, some people will consume a
little water or whiskey before the
meal (i.e. before pronouncing the
blessing over the bread) having in
mind that this blessing should
cover all the beverages such as
water, etc. consumed later during
the course of the meal. This is
one of the reasons why the Kid-
dush over the wine is recited be-
fore the blessing over the bread
on Sabbaths and Festivals. (There
is universal agreement that the
blessing made over the wine
exempts one from pronouncing a
blessing over all other beverages
during the meal).
Why is it customary to recite
the 23rd Psalm before the meal?
The Kabbalist, Rabbi Isaac
Luria, required that a person must
offer a prayer for his food and sus-
tenance before he partakes of a
meal. This is a means of asking
the Almighty to sustain him both
spiritually and physically. It then
becomes his understanding that
the enjoyment of his food is like
an answer to his prayers and a
matter of Grace on the part of the
Creattor. The 23rd Psalm is the
vehicle used for this expression
because it shows man as placing
himself in the trust of the Al-
mighty. Some point out that the
Psalm has fifty-seven words and
that the two Hebrew letters that
make up the number 57, by their
Like a sparrow flitting, a swallow numerical e a uiv alent s, spell
"Zan"- which means "He sustains"
fluttering,
The curse that is groundless will or "He feeds," thus making this
the appropriate Psalm to use as a
not reach home.
— Proverbs prayer for food, and sustenance.
Sidney J. Karbel, president of
Temple Beth El, and Dr. Richard
C. Hertz, senior rabbi, announce
the appointment
of James J. Lev.
barg as educa-
tional director of
the temple.
He succeeds
Dr. Norman
Drachler, whose
resignation w a s
announced last
week.
For the past 12
years, education- Levbarg
al director of Cong. Bnai Jeshurun
in Newark, N.J., Levbarg received
his BA and MA degrees in re-
ligious education from the school
of education of Hebrew Union Col-
lege-Jewish Institute of Religion.
He has clone graduate work at
the Jewish Theological Seminary
of America and Rutgers Univer-
sity. His first post in the field
Of Jewish education was with the
92nd Street YMHA in New York
City.
Levbarg is a past president of
the National Association of Tem-
ple Educators and presently serves
as its executive secretary. He is a
former member of the commission
on Jewish education of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations
and the Central Conference of
American Rabbis and presently
serves on its sub-comnittee on
teacher certification. For the past
ten years he has served the New
Jersey UAHC region as its educa-
tional consultant and chairman of
its committee on teacher certifica-
tion and school accreditation. He
has conducted teachers' seminars
in various parts of the country. In
1961 he started the "Pioneer
Camp," a work-study program for
teen-agers, at the UAHC Camp at
Great Barrington, Mass.
Levbarg serves on the national
boards of the National Camp Com-
mission, National Jewish Audio-
Visual Review Board and Rabbini-
cal Pension Board. He is co-author
of "Rosh," a Hebrew primer, a
teacher's guide and curriculum out-
line on Judaism and social justice
published by. UAHC.
He is married to the former Ju-
dith Berkower and they are the
parents of Mark, a second-year law
student at Texas University, and
Teme, a high school junior.
Levbarg will assume his duties
at the Temple on July 1.
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Adenauer Hails Policy of Germany With Israel
BONN (JTA)—Dr. Konrad Aden-
auer, former chancellor of West
Germany, said Monday that his
policy toward Jewry and especially
toward Israel had been of "great
importance" to the world.
Speaking at the opening session
of the congress of the Christian
Democratic Party, Dr. Adenauer
said: "I did everything possible to
establish understanding with Jewry
and with Israel. I hope profoundly
that the economic negotiations cur-
rently taking place between the
foreign office of the Federal Re-
public and the Israeli delegation
will reach a successful conclusion."
Dr. Adenauer, who has resigned
as chairman and will become hon-
orary chairman of the CDP, said
that successful negotiations be-
tween the two countries were im-
portant "not only for moral but
also for political reasons." "Jewry
is an exceptionally mighty force
in the world," he declared.
Dr. Adenauer confirmed here
Tuesday reports that, as West
German economic aid to Israel
in 1960, in a talk with then
Israeli Premier David Ben-
Gurion, during a meeting in New
York.
He made that statement in an
interview with a reporter for the
Tel Aviv newspaper, Yediot Ach-
renoth,. but refused to confirm the
reported figure of $500,000,000 in
such aid. He said that the meet-
ing with Ben-Gurion was primarily
a friendly, private affair, and that
business matters had been discuss-
ed only in "rough outlines."
When pressed as to whether a
specific figure had been consid-
ered, he gestured toward some
papers and said: "These are the
minutes of the meeting, but this
would not be an opportune time
to reveal the details, in view of
the difficulties in the current
German-Israel negotiations."
The long - delayed Bonn - Jeru-
salem negotiations on West Ger-
man economic aid to Israel were
started last month in Bonn, and
were convened four times before
being postponed until April amid
reports that there were sharp dif-
ferences between the Israelis and
the West Germans.
"I am extremely anxious that
the talks should reach a success-
ful conclusion as soon as possible,"
the former chancellor added, "and
I do not wish to obscure them by
revealing at the present" any de-
tails of the conversations- with
Ben-Gurion.
He was asked to explain his re-
cent remark that failure of the
talks would have worldwide reper-
cussions. He replied that his re-
marks were in the nature of a hint
to the West German delegation to
do everything in its power to reach
a satisfactory agreement.
Asked his opinion as to the value
of a frequently-discussed, but un-
scheduled meeting between Dr.
Ludwig Erhard, his successor as
chancellor, and Premier Levi Esh-
kol of Israel, Dr. Adenauer replied
he thought it would be a "bad
thing." He said it would have an
adverse effect on the Arab coun-
tries and would not advance the
interests either of West Germany
or Israel.
He said that, when he had been
chancellor, such a meeting might
have been worthwhile, since he
had initiated friendly relations
with Israel.
Dr. Adenauer, who resigned
Monday as chairman of the
Christian Democratic Union to
become honorary president, will
visit Israel in May. He said he
was eager to see how Israel had
developed.
Asked why he had waited so long
to accept the invitation to visit Is-
rael, extended to him several
years ago by Ben-Gurion, he said
that he would have loved to visit
Israel before, but that he had not
had the time, and that this was
the sole reason for the delay.
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classis, governing unit for 15
Reformed Church in America con-
gregations in the borough, took
issue with a proposal by one of
its leaders that Christians join
Jews in observing the sabbath on
Saturday instead of S'unday.
The suggestion for the common
day as "the longest stride toward
religious unity that our civiliza-
tion has yet known" came from
Rev. Dr. Ernest R. Palen of New
York's Middle Collegiate Church.
The Brooklyn classis called Dr.
Palen's motivation good but "we
cannot bring ourselves to agree
that Dr. Palen's suggestion will
accomplish his purpose.
"If the church is simply trying
to summon men from their human
pursuits to observe a day of con-
templation and rest," the classis
said, "we see no more success
for doing this on Saturday with
the Jews than on Sunday with
Christians alone."
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