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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 21, 1967

Ritual of Pouring Water in Washing

BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX

(Copyright 1967, JTA Inc.)

It is required to pour water
over ones hands three times when
washing the hands for ritual
purposes.

United Nations officials are shown here in position along the Israeli-held side of the Suez Canal to
try to make the cease fire an actually.

Philadelphia Printer, Dr. Maurice Jacobs,
Publishes Books in Over 190 Languages
•
16 languages. They are so thor- 40s, once attended the theo ogica
In 1956, New Testament scholars

Since washing the hands in prep-
aration for ritual cleanliness is
supposed to be a means of wash-
ing away the spirit (and/or in-
clination) of evil, washing the
hands by pouring water over each
hand three times accomplishes
the following: the first time washes
away the spirit of evil or impurity,
the second time prepares the hand
to be ritually clean enough to
wash the other hand and the third
time brings to the hand (and thus
to the individual himself) the
spirit of purity and goodness. Some
authorities (Sedar Hayyom) claim
that the three times impart a sense
of "Chazaka" indicating omner-
ship or permanence, in the sense
that the hands (and thus the in-
dividual) secures his status of
purity instead of having it as a
passing notion. It might also be
said that the interpretation of the
three-phase washing given above
is an indication of the steps in
which an individual passes from a
state of impurity to a state of
purity. First, of course, it is neces-
sary to rid one's self of evil

ough and accurate that they are seminary in Poland. During the
t compre-
•
...
able to edit and correct learned war, he was in a labor camp.
hensive edition of the Bible in
authors' manuscripts. One proof- 1 Teaching in Munich after the war,
Greek ever published. One of the
Hoffman met his wife in Germany
key figures in the publication of reader spotted an incorrect ref-
and was married in Philadelphia
this book was Dr. Maurice Jacobs. , erence to "The Iliad."
Dr. Jacobs knows the value of the day after he emigrated to the
Dr. Jacobs is not a Greek scholar
nor is he an expert on the tie": such men and has a keen eye for United States. Hoffman speaks
Testament. Dr. Jacobs is a printer. new recruits. One day a young Pole Polish, German, Russian, Hebrew.
applied for a job. "How many lan- French, Latin. Greek, Czech, Eng-
Arch print
St., Phila.
del Located
ph ia, at
Dr. 1010
Jacobs'
shop guages do you speak?" asked Dr. lish, Ukrainian and Yiddish. Dr.
specializes in setting type in any Jacobs. "Thirteen" was the answer. Jacobs had him learn Arabic to,
And can you type?" "Perfectly." as Hoffman put it, 'keep me out
of 190 languages and dialects. Now " "I don't need anyone," said Dr. of trouble."
Dr. Menahem G. Glenn came
Jacobs, "hut you're hired."
The firm's vice president is from Lithuania in 1914. He is an
editor,
chief proofreader, author
David Skaraton, a Ukrainian. Skara-
ton is fluent in Hebrew, Russian, and columnist for the Boston Jew-
Yiddish and other languages. His ish Exponent.
father was killed by renegades in
Philip Herstein was born in
Ukraine when he was 13. He es-
Poland and studied at Manitoba,
caped with his mother to Romania
Columbia, and New York Uni-
and finally to the United States.
versities. He speaks Hebrew,
Skaraton joined the Jewish Pub-
English Polish, German, Latin,
lication Society in 1929 and when
Spanish, Russian, Greek and
Dr. Jacobs left the society to form
Arabic.
his own publishing concern, Skara-
Despite the intense proofread-
ton went with him.
ing, errors have slipped into print.
Dr. Helmut Frank was grad-
Dr. Jacobs tells of one: "There's
uated from the University of a phrase in the Book of Isaiah: 'If
Berlin and, before Hitler, was a ye be willing and obedient, ye shall
rabbi in Worms, Germany. Be- eat the good of the land; but if
fore he fled Germany in 1939, ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be
he had never seen a typesetting devoured with the sword.'
machine. He spoke German, Eng-
"The proof , was read thirteen
lish, Greek, Latin, Hebre w, times, but when the book came out,
-French
and
Arabic.
the
passage read, 'If ye be willing
MAURICE JACOBS
The oldest man in point of serv- . . . ye shall eat the good of the
in his late 60s, Dr. Jacobs has op- ice is Meyer Weitzel, who joined land; but if ye refuse and rebel,
erated his own print shop since the Jewish Publication Society in ye shall eat the good of the land'
1921. He came from Poland, and The edition had to be recalled. It
1949.
The first two monotype machines beside his mother tongue, he speaks became known as the 'Wicked
for setting Hebrew were installed Russian. German, Yiddish and He- Bible.' "
In another book: "In one proof,
in his shop. Ile has gathered a staff brew. Weitzel was the first worker
of linguistic experts from all over to learn the operation of the He- a line read, 'God my maker.' So
the world and has turned out books brew Monotype machine. On the the editor scribbled on the margin
and journals in languages from Greek Bible, he and the others CAP—for a capital letter—the M.
worked for two years.
You know how it finally came out?
Adjukru to Zulu.
Isadore Hoffman, now in his mid- God my Capmaker."
Born in Lawrence. Mass., Dr.
• • •
Jacobs was graduated from the
Maurice Jacobs takes great pride
University of Maine in 1917. After `The Fixer' on Location
in the multi-lingual products of
naval service during World War I,
Simon Schiffrin, the veteran
he entered the publishing business. French movie maker and Academy his very productive enterprise.
A typical example is the newest
In 1936, he became executive vice Award winner for "Chagall," who
president of the Jewish Publication participated in three major inva- work he has produced, for Harvard
University
Press, as a volume spon-
Society of America, a position he sions in World War H as intelli-
held until he formed his own com- gence officer for both the French sored by the Brandeis University
Philip
W.
Lown Institute of Ad-
pany.
and Americans, last week visited
Judaic Studies. This vol-
Dr. Jacobs has published mag- Hollywood for the first time in 22 vanced
"Jewish Medieval and Renais-
azines and books for scholars and years. Schiffrin most recently was ume,
sance Studies," edited by Prof.
institutions all over the world associated with Carlo Ponti in the Alexander
Altmann, this is a work
and in almost all the world's producing of the anti-Nazi movie, of triple sponsorship
— Harvard
languages. He has associated "The 25th Hour." He now is pre- Press, Brandeis University
and
himself with leading Hebrew and paring for location in Yugoslavia
plant.
foreign typographers and Amer- to film Bernard Malamud's best- Jacobs'
In addition to an essay in French
ican book-production men. He selling novel, "The Fixer," deal- by Georges Vajda, the articles in
has scholars for proofreaders ing with a program in Czarist Rus- this volume dealing with Jewish
and university professors for sia. The movie will be produced intellectual life and historical
typesetters. All typesetters are by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and di- aspects in the Middle Ages re-
multi-lingual—one has mastered rected by John Frankenheimer (of quired in addition to Hebrew the
"Grand Prix"),
use of Arabic and Greek.

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Adv.

Peter Sellers Pays 'Debt'

Peter Sellers, currently on the
screen with "The Bobo," in which
Britt Ekland and Rossano Brazzi
perform opposite him, is now on
his second engagement in Holly-
wood, portraying the central char-
acter in Blake Edwards madcap
comedy "The Party." Sandwiched
in Sellers' movie appearances are
guest stints for Jewish organiza-
tions, such as the one for Israel at
the Hollywood Bowl and one for
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patient at Cedars-Sinai wants to
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thoughts and desires. Second, one
must bring himself around to th e
understanding that one must not
desire purity for himself alone;
but he must also strive to be an
agent to bring purity to others.
Third, a state of purity is more
than a negative reaction against
impurity. There must also be a
positive action in order to achieve
a status of ideal purity.

The 12 studies in this well
compiled work include evalua-
tive analyses of the philosophic
thinking and teachings of emi-
nent scholars of the time under
review, an essay by Lawrence
V. Berman on "Greek Into He-
brew" relating to the 14th Cen-
tury translator and philosopher
Samuel ben Judah, an essay by
Arthur Hyman on "Maimonides'
Thirteen Principles," another by
Sarah 0. H. Wilensky on the
Kabbalist "Issac Ibn Latif," one
on Saadia and other important
commentaries.

This volume, among the many
published by Jacobs, are indica-
tions of the immensity of his plant.

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