1O—Friday, January 13, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
m eekly Quiz
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
TEMPLE BETH AM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Jessel will speak
on "Moses, Chief of Staff".
TEMPLE BETH JACOB, Pontiac: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Mrs.
David Saks, president of the Federation of City Women's Clubs,
will speak following the service.
TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15 p.m. today. Rabbi Rosenbaum will
speak on "The Challenge of the 'Secular' City." A discussion of the
sermon will follow the oneg Shabbat.
YOUNG ISRAEL OF NORTHWEST DETROIT: Services 5:05 p.m. today
and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Prero will speak on "Collective Re-
sponsibility — 1967."
CONG. BETH ABRAHAM: Services 5:15 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Satur-
day. Rabbi Prero will speak on "Kiddush Hashem: Do We Witness
Still?" Lee Singer and Jerry Muskovitz, Bnai Mitzva'.
THE NEW TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Conrad will speak
on "The Book of Exodus and the Credibility Gap."
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8 p.m. today. The annual Married Group
family dinner will precede the services at 6 p.m. Rabbi Kanter will
speak on "Forgiven and Forgotten." Services 11:15 a.m. Saturday.
Rabbi Kanter will speak on "The Place of Private Devotion in
Worship."
CONG. SHAAREY SHOMAYIM: Services 5 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Satur-
day. Rabbi Goldman' will speak on "Definitions of Redemption."
Alan David Kolb, Bar Dilitzva.
CONG. BNAI JACOB: Services 5 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi
Isaac will speak on "The Plagues Upon Egypt." A. Aisen, Bar
Mitzva.
CONG. BETH TEFILO EMANUEL TIKVAH: Services 5:10 p.m. today
and 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Levin will speak on "A Message of
Hope."
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Syme will talk on
"The Ministering Angels: A Chapter from Jewish History." Leonard
Carl Felder, Bar Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday. Norman Jeffery
Moss. Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH HILLEL: Services 5:15 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. today and 9
a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Litke will speak on "A Look at the American
Jewish Community." Alan Schindler, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. AHAVAS A
- CHIM: Services 5:15 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. Sat-
urday. David Myron Emmer and Victor Schachter, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 5 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. today. Jane
Michelle Coffman, Bat Mitzva. Services 8:45 a.m. Saturday. David
Wolf. Bar Mitzva.
ADAS SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 5:15.p.m. today and 8:40 a.m.
Saturday. Stuart Siden and Harold Shriman, Bnai Mitzva.
LIVONIA JEWISH CONGREGATION: Services 8:30 p.m. today and
9 a.m. Saturday. Bernard Guss, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Bruce David Feldstein and Michael Alan Gould, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. BETH MOSES: Services 5:15 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
Jeffrey Persin, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. SHAAREY ZEDEK: Services 5:15 p.m. today and 9 a.m. - Satur-
day. Michael Allan Max, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 6 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Saturday.
Joel Plotkin, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. AHAVAS ACHIM: Services 5:15 p.m. today-and 8:40 a.m. Satur-
day. David Emmer and Victor Shachter, Bnai Mitzva.
Regular services will be held at Downtown Synagogue, Young Israel
Center of Oak Woods, Cong. Beth Joseph and Cong. Mishkan Israel.
Bremer Rebbe, Wife to Leave Detroit
and Take Up Residence in Israel
Rabbi Joseph Rabinowitz, the
Brezner Rebbe, and R e b i t z e n
Rabinowitz - are making final ar-
rangements to leave Detroit and
settle in Israel.
The rebbe came to Detroit nearly
41 years ago from Russia, the scion
of a long line of rabbinical person-
alities and lead-
ers in Hasidism.
On arriving here,
he Was asked to
lead the Brezner
Hasidim and as-
sumed the leader-
ship of Cong.
Agudath Achim
and later of Cong.
.Bnai Zion. In
:1933, he formed
the Blaine Street
Cong. Beth
named
I Shmuel
after ids grand-
father.
Fifteen years
Rabbi Rabinowitzlater, h i s disci-
ple erected the Dexter-Buena Vista
synagogue. More than a house of
worship, it became an open house
for guests, itinerants and scholars.
The rebitzen joined the rabbi
in worthwhile efforts for the ad-
vancement of traditional Juda-
ism and comprehensive Jewish
education. Rabbi Rabinowitz was
active in the Yeshivath Beth
Yehudah, and the Council of Or-
thodox Rabbis, of which he is
currently honorary president.
They have three children, Rabbis
Philip of Chicago and Mordecai of
New York and a son-in-law, Rabbi
Meyer Moskowitz of New York. The
couple also has grandchildren.
The Council of Orthodox Rabbis
is giving a farewell event in their
honor, Feb. 15.
Novel With Ancient Theme
Jacquetta Hawkes, author of the
novel, "King of the Two Lands,"
published by Random House, used
as her theme the Pharaoh Akhe-
naten and his queen, Nefertiti.
The clash of ideas, the hope for
a higher civilization expressed by
the two rulers, is in evidence in
this well developed story. It is a
description of a struggle for higher
goals and the tale is marked by
tragedy afflicting the chief char-
acters.
Miss Hawkes, who is the daugh-
ter of Sir Frederick Gowland Hop-
kins, Nobel Prize-winning discov-
erer of vitamins, has specialized
in archeology and her specialty is
in evidence in this novel.
Mapam to Give Coalition
Another Chance for Year
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The left-wing
Mapam faction of the coalition de-
cided Sunday night to remain in
the government for another year
as a trial period in spite of strong
objection by party leaders to the
coalition's handling of labor rela-
tions, wage policy and unemploy-
ment problems.
After two days of deliberations,
the Mapam Council voted to stay
in the Eshkol government with a
majority of that body's members
contending that it was easier to
fight from within the coalition than
from the opposition benches of the
Knesset, Israel's parliament.
Why is it customary to cir-
cumcise an infant who had died
before the eighth day, or a male
child which has been miscarried
before its birth, even giving it
a name?
This practice is mentioned at
least as early as in Gaonic litera-
ture. Maimonides (Laws of Cir-
cumcision) makes this a require-
ment in his Code. This is regarded
as one of the symbols of our faith
in the existence of a life in the
hereafter and in the eventual re-
surrection of the dead. The cir-
cumcision and name-giving are
done, it is said, so that Heaven will
have compassion on this soul in
the Hereafter and so that it will
be resurrected along with the other
souls at the destined time. The
lack of a name and the lack of
the circumcision rite would impede
this process.
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Why does Jewish tradition re-
quire that each person who is to
recite the benediction over the
Tora be officially summoned
to come and stand before the
Tora to do this?
Basically. our custom of reciting
the benediction over the Tora
today is a substitute for the origin-
al requirement that each person
who is called before the Tora
reads his own portion from the
Holy Scroll. Because of the grow-
ing lack of qualified people who
are able to read the Tora, a pro-
fessional reader does the reading
and the people who are called up
to the Tora recite the blessing.
In the case of the original custom
where everyone who was called up
to the Tora read his own portion,
the Tosefta rules that no one may
go up to read a portion unless he
is officially summoned to do so.
Otherwise, claim the rabbis, if
anyone who wishes can come up
without being summoned,it is "like
a father who would allow his
daughter's hand in marriage to any.
one who would have her." Read-
ing from the Tora or offering
benedictions before the Tora is
to be considered an honor and a
privilege which is bestowed upon
the individual by the congregation.
Thus an official of the congrega-
tion summons him to read or pro-
nounce the benedictions. Of course,
from a practical point of view,
this lends decorum and a certain
amount of reverence to the con-
gregation assembled as well as to
the service and Tora reading as
a whole. Furthermore he who reads
from the Torn, as was the origin-
al custom, or even he who offers
benedictions over the Tora today,
actually performs a service for the
congregation and in a sense leads
them. One should never perform
a service for a congregation or
lead them in any way unless it is
with the will of the congregation
that he does so. Being summoned
by an official of the congregation
to read or to offer the benedictions
is a means of expressing the will
of the congregation as a whole
that this individual do so with their
express desire and consent.
Why is it_required by Jewish
tradition to summon the individ-
ual by calling Out his name and
the name and status (i.e. Kohen,
Levi, Israel) of his father, when
calling him to come up and of-
fer the benedictions over the
Tora?
This requirement serves a very
practical purpose. In religious doc-
uments, especially in Jewish writs
of Divorce, the exact name of the
individual is required, so that
there can be no question of having
the bill executed for one person
and apply to a second person of
that same or similar name. The
way in which the Hebrew name of
a person becomes fixed and reg-
ulated is in the process of his be-
ing repeatedly called to the Tora
by that name. In our present day
society, were it not for this prac-
tice, many Hebrew names would
have been forgotten through mis-
use, since our daily pursuits see
little or no need for the use of
Hebrew names.
Hasidic Authority From U. of Manitoba
to Probe 'Jewish Life in 3 Dimensions'
Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter will
be the second speaker in a nine-
lecture series on "Culture and
Morality in a Changing World,"
9 p.m. Thursday
at Cong. Adas
Shalom. His sub-
ect will be "Jew-
ish Life in Three
Dimensions."
Rabbi Schach-
r, formerly di-
rector of the
Bnai Brith Hillel
Foundation at
the University of
Schachter Manitoba, is now
chairman of the department of
Judaic studies at the University,
with rank of associate professor,
Born in Poland and trained in
Vienna, Rabbi Schachter fled, at
the time of the Anschluss, to Bel-
gium, where he first came into
contact with Lubavitch - Habad.
Escaping in the blitz, he went to
France, where he was interned in
a concentration camp. He arrived
in the United States in 1941 and
continued to study at the Luba-
vitcher Yeshiva in Brooklyn.
Rabbi Schachter's intense in-
terest in Jewish youth has been
channeled in creative work with
young Judea, AZA (Bnai Brith
young men and other youth
groups at Brown University,
Harvard, Brandeis and Boston
University, where he received
his MA in psychology and pas-
toral counseling.
Rabbi Schachter has contributed
to Jewish periodicals, is a transla-
tor of Hasidic source material and
the author of "The First Step."
Rabbi Jacob E. Segal serves as
moderator for the lecture series.
Registration is still open to all
men and women in the community.
For information call the Adas
Shalom adult education office,
UN 4-7474.
Levins to Be Honored
by Shomrey Emunah
Officers and members of Shorn-
rey Emunah, together with the
sisterhood, will honor Mr. and
Mrs. Isadore Levin at a melave
malka 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the
synagogue. The Levins will be
leaving for their new home in
Los Angeles the end of this month,J
Levin has been president of the
congregation for the past six years,
and Mrs. Levin has been the pres-
ident of the sisterhood. When the
congregation was organized 10
years ago, many of the meetings
and prayer services were held in
their home.
A program has been prepared,
and all members of the congrega-
tion and friends of the Levins
are invited.
Reform Parent Body OKs
New Temple Membership
The Union of American Hebrew
Congregations recently informed
the officers of The New Temple
that the congregation has been ac-
cepted as a fully participating
member of the parent body of Re-
form Judaism in the United States.
HALL FOR RENT
For meetings and small affairs.
Cong. Shomrey Emunah
Schaefer Corner Clarita
For information call
UN 4-1862
The Board of Directors, faculty and student body of the
YESHIVATH BETH YEHUDAH and BETH JACOB SCHOOLS
and its affiliated organizations, etxend to Mr. and Mrs. ISADORE
LEVIN the best wishes of the entire community upon their
moving to the City of Los Angeles. May the Almighty strengthen
them in their new home.
The community is cordially invited to a
FAREWELL MELAVE MALKA
in honor of
MRS. ISADORE LEVIN
President of Ladies of Yeshivath Beth Yehudah
and Women's Sabbath League
Saturday evening, January 21, 1967, at 8:30 p.m.,
in the Yeshivath Beth Yehudah Building
15751 W. 10 1/2 Mile Road, Southfield, Michigan
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