18—Friday, November 18, 1966

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS G emara

Carmel—He Shook Hands With Herzl

On Israel
All Israelites are responsible for
one another.—Shebuot, 39a.
R a b b i Johanan said: The Is-
raelites are compared to an olive
tree, because as the olive yields its
oil only by hard pressure, so the
Israelites do not return to right-
eousness except through suffering.
—1\Ienahot, 53b.
Israel is likened to a vine: the
householders are the branches, the
learned men are the fruit, and the
unlearned the leaves.—Hullin, 92a.
Israel is like a vine. A vine is
trodden underfoot, but later its
wine is placed on the table of the
king. So, too, does Israel, at first
oppressed, eventually come to
greatness.—Nedarim, 49b.
Only when you (Israelites) con-
duct yourselves like children of
God are you deserving to be called
His children.—Kiddushin, 36a.
The kind works of non-Jewish
people remind God of Israel's sin.
If those who did not receive the
Tora perform deeds of kindness,
how much the more should Israel,
who accepted the Tora ! — Baba
Batra, 10a.
God scattered His people over
the earth, for only so could all
the nations be gained for His
Service.—Ibid., 87b.
On Gentiles
Blessed art thou, 0 Lord our
God, King of the universe, who
hast given of thy wisdom to all
flesh and blood.—Berakot, 58a.
Whoever renounces idol worship
may be called a Jew.—Megillah,
13a.
Even an idolator who studies
Tora is like the High Priest. —
Baba Kamma, 38a.
Rabbi Me'ir said: "A Gentile who

I rael, it may be Lutherans or Epis-
copalians who are singing them.
The man who shook hands with , And it seems to me when non-Jews
Theodor Herzl himself flew into sing in Hebrew in Israel about
Kennedy Field the other day for peace, it offers more hope for the
world than the United Nations.
his annual visit from Israel.
There are many -Scandinavian
We mean Isaac Carmel.
They tell of Paul Revere that in tourists at Natanya. At Ashkelon,
his old age he vou find a concentration of French
tourists. Of course there are some
liked to put on Jewish tourists too but they are
his Revolutionary outnumbered by the non-Jewish.
War uniform and Only 35 per cent of the tourists to
reminisce of the Israel are Jewish. I guess the Jews
famous horse ride need more education about going
he took back in to Israel. In one kibbutz there is
Boston in 1776.
a group of Japanese, and the son
Carmel hasn't of the German Ambassador to Is-
got a horse but rael lives in a kibbutz.
he flies about
"What a wonderful thing we
more than Re-
have done in Israel. In 18 years,
vere ever did,
we have built up a Jewish state
bespeaking t h e
of two and a half million people;
message of Is-
developed a substantial industry
rael.
and a wonderful agriculture."
But he isn't as
old as some peo-
ple think. "I was `Moby Dick' Story
sitting the other Proves How Truth
day in Jerusalem
at the opening of Matches Fiction
Carmel
the Knesset in its new, beautiful
Publicity gimmicks often accom-
building. I was sitting alongside pany the appearance of new books,
of Dr. Schwartz of the Israel Bond but in 1851, just about the time
organization, when up comes my
friend Meyer Weisgal, of the Weiz- that Herman Melville's "Moby
Dick' was going to press, events
mann Institute.
" 'Carmel,' he exclaims exuber- took place which staggered even
antly, 'you here! You must be 100 Melville himself. In the summer of
years old.'
that year, even as he was writing
" 'Well,' I say, 'I don't know, the novel's powerful conclusion in
Meyer, but you ought to know. You which the Leviathan sends the
were at my brith.' "
Pequod to the deep, there occurred
Actually, Weisgal only recently one of the most amazing coinci-
celebrated his 70th birthday.
dences in literary history. On Aug.
Carmel is 83.
20, the Panama Herald reported
Despite his love for Israel, Car- the actual sinking of a whaler by a
mel usually manages to return for malignant whale:
a few months annually to America.
"Thrilling Account of the De-
Along with Israel, he says, he re-
struction
of a Whale Ship by a
gards America as one of the great
Sperm Whale—Sinking of the Ship
powers.
—loss of two of the Boats and
"Tourists from all over the Miraculous Escape of the Crew.—
world are coming to Israel," he We have just received the follow-
says. "The other day in Natanya ing thrilling account of the de-
where I live, I heard a group of struction of the Whale Ship Ann
young Swedes around the beach Alexander . . . by a large Sperm
singing the old Zionist song:
Whale . . . It is one of the most
remarkable events on record . . .
Ilevenu Shalom
A similar circumstance has never
Shalom
been known to occur but once in
Shalom Aleichem'
the whole history of whale-fish-
"You know what the words ing . . . "
mean:
News of the catastrophe reached
`We brought Peace
the United States on Nov. 4, just
Peace
15 days before "Moby Dick" was
published, and was immediately re-
Peace to you.'
"These old songs are usually a layed to Melville by his alert lit-
repetition of a few Hebrew words erary adviser, Evert Duyckinck.
and therefore easily learned and The author's reply was characteris-
today when we hear them in Is- tic: "Your letter received last night
had a sort of stunning effect on
me . . . It is really and truly a
To Honor Nobel Laureate surprising coincidence, to say the
least. I make no doubt it IS Moby
at Exhibit Dec. 2-Feb. 1
Dick himself, for there is no ac-
NEW YORK—A comprehensive count of his capture after the sad
exhibit pertaining to the life and fate of the Pequod .. . Ye Gods !
works of S. Y. Agnon, 1966 re- What a Commentator is this Ann
cipient of the Nobel prize for lit- Alexander whale. What he has to
erature, is being prepared by the say is short and pithy but very
YIVO Institute for Jewish Re- much to the point. I wonder if my
search, to be held at YIVO head- evil art has raised the monster."
quarters, 1048 Fifth Ave. It will
The story of Melville's South Sea
be open to the public from Dec. 2
adventure,
which lasted four years
through Feb. 1.
and furnished the experiences that
The exhibit will include docu- make up the great body of his
ments and letters by and about works, is recreated in a Dover po-
the noted Hebrew writer, photo- perback reprint, "Melville in the
graphs and other materials relat- South Seas' by Prof. Charles Rob-
ing to Agnon's birthplace, photo- erts Anderson of Johns Hopkins
graphs of the writer and his milieu University. A distinguished schol-
from his earliest years to the ar, author of several important
pr es en t, reproductions of his studies in American literature, and
earliest writings in Yiddish and the first president of the Melville
Hebrew dating back to 1903, copies Society, Prof. Anderson was the
of the many editions of his work first person to follow Melville on
in Hebrew and translations of his his journey. For four years he ex-
work in Yiddish, German, Swedish, plored untapped Navy records,
Fr e n c h, English, Dutch, Hun- manuscripts and documents scat-
garian, Italian, Danish and other tered between Paris and Sydney,
languages.,A special section of the Australia, always searching for
exhibit will deal with Agnon's facts about the voyage, and striv-
works for children and young peo- ing to learn how these facts were
ple. There will also be original converted into a distinguished
illustrations of some of Agnon's shelf of American fiction. A pio-
stories.
neer in Melville scholarship, the
book covers all six works related
When the state is most cor- to the journey. Prof. Anderson
rupt, then the laws are most has written a new preface for the
Dover edition.
multiplied.—Tacitus.

By DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)

Wisdom

lives a goodly life is like a High
Priest."—Abodah Zarah, 3a.

God says: "Both the Gentiles
and the Israelites are my handi-
work, therefore how can I let the
former perish on account of the
latter?"—Sanhedrin, 98b.

the affairs of his community. —
T. J. Gittin, 5:9.
Said Rabbi Tanhuma: "If a non-
Jew bless thee, respond Amen, as
it is written: 'Thou shalt be blessed
by all peoples'."—T. J. Berakot,
8b.

Antoninus, the Emperor, once
asked Rabbi Judah, the Patriarch:
"Will I have a share in the World
to Come?" Rabbi Judah replied:
"Yes." "But is it not prophesied,"
the heathen demanded, "that none
shall be left of the house of Esau?"
"Yes," came the quick reply of
Rabbi Judah, "but that applies only
to those who commit Esau's acts of
violence!"—Abodah Zarah, 10b.
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