18—Friday, July 1, 1966
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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Weekly Jewish Quiz
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
Is the recitation of the the first time one puts on the Tefil- putting on Tefillin on the first day
"Shema" at bed time to be re- lin after he becomes Bar Mitzvah, of mourning to be because the day
cited when one is actually in bed even if he had worn them before, is so bitter (Amos 8:10) that one
provided that he wore a new gar- cannot concentrate properly, and
or just before one goes into bed? ment at the same time so that the Tefillin require concentration.
There seems to be a difference blessing for a new experience
of opinion amongst later author would apply to both the Tefillin
ities. Some (e.g., Rabbi Samue 1 and the new garment.
Edels, the Maharsha'a) clai m
Why is it that a mourner does
that it should be recited when on e not put on Tefillin on the first
is actually lying in bed. Other s day of mourning?
(Shaloh) claim that it should b e
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This is derived by the Rabbis
recited just before getting into bed
(Moed
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from
a
passage
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Some (Leket Yosher) advise that,
if one fogot to say it before getting in the Book of Ezekiel (Ezekiel
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into bed, he should get out of bed 24:17) where he is told to "bind
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and say it; but if he dozed off and the attire on his head" (meaning
awoke remembering he had not the Tefillin) in spite of the mourn-
said it yet, he may recite it while ing, indicating that under normal
circumstances a mourner does not
lying in bed.
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put on Tefillin on the first day.
Why do some refrain from Some explain the reason for not
putting on Tefillin (phylac-
teries) until the actual day of
Bar Mitzvah (13 years and one
day) while others begin putting
on the Tefillin at an earlier age?
A boy who has not yet achieved
the age of Bar Mitzvah is not re-
quired to put on Tefillin, since his
requirement for the observance of
(For 16 Years)
commandments begins at the time
of his Bar Mitzvah. Those who
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practice properly. Such was the
practice of the Sephardic Jews as
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stipulated by Rabbi Joseph Karo
in the • Shulchan Aruch (Orach
Chayyim 37:3). The Ashkenazic
Jews followed the stipulation of
Rabbi Moses Isserles, who, in his
gloss to the text of Rabbi Joseph
Karo, insists that a boy who is not
as yet Bar Mitzvah should not put
on the Tefillin. A number of rea-
sons are given for this prohibition.
S'ome claim it is so that when the
boy becomes Bar Mitzvah he will
feel the sanctity and the spiritual
thrill of putting on the Tefillin
for the first time. Others claim it
is because, if he refrains from put-
ting on Tefillin beforehand, he will
be able to pronounce the blessing
"Sheheheyanoo" the first time he
puts on the Tefillin at his Bar Kashruth Supervision by
Mitzvah. This could not be done prominent Orthodox Rabbi:
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then. It could not be done at the and two steady Mashgichim
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be the first time he had put them
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. Dr. Louis Finkelstein (left), Seminary Chancellor, examines rare
edition of the rabbinic Bible with Rabbi Israel H. Levinthal (right)
and Rabbi Benjamin Z. Kreitman (standing), of the Brooklyn Jewish
Center. The book is one of 5,000 volumes recently presented to the
Jewish Theolog,ical Seminary of America by the synagogue, in an
effort to help replace books lost in the disastrous fire which swept
the Seminary library last April 18. More than 70,000 volumes were
incinerated in the fire—the remaining 150,000 books, many of them
badly damaged by water, have been saved, and will be restored to
the shelves when the Seminary library reopens in temporary quar-
ters in the fall. Among the volumes in the collection presented by
the Brooklyn Jewish Center were two extremely rare editions of
the commentaries of Abravanel, one of the Bible, and one on the
Haggadah. The rabbinical Bible, one volume of which is shown
above, wag published in Amsterdam in 1725 in four volumes, and
includes an Aramanic translation of the biblical text, with commen-
tary by such scholars as Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Rabbi David Kimhi, Ger-
sonides, etc.
Citation of Religious Zionists
Pays • High Honor to -Stoiimans
At the testimonial dinner in honor of Max and Phillip Stollman,
at the Waldorf Astoria, in New York, June 22, Dr. Joseph Lookstein,
in behalf of Religious Zionists of America, presented the following
citation in the Stollmans' honor: 4)—
"Occasionally a star appears on giance, and upon its altar they
the darkening horizon of Jewish bring their most generous offer-
community life, and it casts a ings. Rising majestically on the
bright beam and heralds hope and Bar-Ilan campus is the magnificent
promise for its future. Such a star Administration Center, which their
is the gentle • and modest, the munificense is making possible.
kindly and lovable, Max Stollman. - "Max and Phillip Stollman can-
"Frequently a companion star not be considered apart from each
joins the first, and together the other. They represent graphically
two form a sparkling and glisten- and beautifully the psalmist's ref-
ing team, which lights up the erence to "brothers dwelling to-
firmament of Jewish existence gether in unity." They are fused
with a glow of confidence and en- in spirit, merged in purpose, and
thusiasm, and radiates warmth united in effort. We salute them
and happiness to the widening this day, not alone as Men of the
orbits of Jewish life. Such a com- Year, but as foremost men of our
panion star is the energetic, dy- generation.
namic, resourceful and generous
"In token of our high regard for
Phillip Stollman, the younger of them, I present to them these
the brothers.
plaques, inscribed in their honor.
"Sometimes, though rarely, the With these visible symbols go our
Jewish universe is blessed with an warmest and truest blessings to
entire galaxy that illuminates them and to the entire Stollman
every crevice and bathes every family."
surface of Jewish effort and
achievement. Such a galaxy in the 'Shortage of Rabbis
American Jewish community is the
Stollman family, Frieda included. Threatens U.S. Jewry'
"Nothing Jewish is left un-
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touched by them. Their generosity
FALLSBURG,
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knows no limits. Their goodness
has no bounds. Their service has ous shortage of rabbis in the
American Jewish community was
no parallel.
"Their identification is with deplored here Tuesday by Rabbi
Orthodox Judaism, but their com- Pesach Z. Levovitz, the newly
of the Rabbinical
mitment is to klal Yisroel. Their elected president
of America.
geographic home is Detroit, Michi- Council
Addressing the annual conven-
gan, but their Jewish address is
tion
of the Orthodox rabbinical
best described as General Delivery.
Rabbi Levovitz said that the
Keren Kayemeth, U. J. A., Israel group,
Bonds, Mizrachi, Yeshiva Univer- lack of spiritual leaders may jeo-
sity and every Torah institution, pardize the entire religious struc-
large or small, local or national, ture of the American Jewish com-
are the beneficiaries of their munity. If the trend continues, he
told the 600 delegates, the lack of
bounty.
"Their choicest gifts and their rabbis "will deprive the commu-
warmest devotion are consecrated nity of leaders to tackle the acute
to the Bar-Ilan University, crea- problems which constantly call for
explanation, guidance and
tion and crown of our movement. solution,
To it they give their fullest alle- direction."
At an earlier session, Rabbi Is-
rael Miller, the outgOing president
of the organization, announced the
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establishment by the Rabbinical
Jewish School Teachers
Council of America of a $3,000,000
JOHANNESBURG (JTA)—The research center in Israel for Amer-
departments of interior and of im- ican rabbis.
migration of the South African
The new facility, to be known as
government placed no difficulties the Rabbinical Council Center, will
in the way of Jewish ministers and comprise an advanced institute for
teachers for whom admission is research with facilities for 100
sought, Gustav Saron, general sec- young American rabbis who will
retary of the South African Jewish spend a year at the institute im-
Board of Deputies, reported to the mediately following their ordina-
monthly meeting of deputies here. tion.
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