Weekly Quiz

SYNAGOGUE

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SERVICES

TEMPLE EMANU-EL: Services 8:15 p.m. today. Rabbi Rosenbaum
will speak on "Our Crowd."
THE NEW TEMPLE: Services 8:30 p.m. today in the Birmingham
Unitarian Church. Rabbi Conrad will speak on "Noah and Gilga-
mesh: Two Accounts of the Flood."
TEMPLE BETH AM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Jessel will
speak on "Noah, Can You Tread Water?"
TEMPLE BETH EL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Morris N. Kert-
zer will speak on "Today's American Jew." (See story.) Robert
Bachman Lakin, Bar Mitzva. Services 11:15 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi
Hertz will speak on "The Symbol of the Dove." Laurence Alan
Schechter, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH SHALOM: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Halpern will
speak on "It Depends on Me." Suzanne Moss and Susan Rosen-
thal, Bnot Mitzva. Services 9 a.m. Saturday. Michael Shaenboen,
Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH ABRAHAM: Services 5:15 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m.
Saturday. Rabbi Halpern will speak on "The Importance of
Growing Up." Mark Linton and Paul Needelman, Bnai Mitzva.
TEMPLE ISRAEL: Services 8:30 p.m. today. Rabbi Fram will speak
on "The Balfour Declaration of 1917: Its Significance in the
Middle East Crisis of 1967." Mark Warren Kover and David
Glenn Shpargel, Bnai Mitzva. Services 11 a.m. Saturday. Scott
Robert Jacobson, Bar Mitzva.
DOWNTOWN SYNAGOGUE: Services 10 a.m. Saturday. Rabbi Gamze
will speak on "The Parable of Noah." David Rosenthal, Bar Mitzva.
TEMPLE BETH JACOB of Pontiac: Services 8:30 p.m. today. David
Freeman Weiman, Bar Mitzva.
YOUNG ISRAEL CENTER OF OAK WOODS: Services 5:10 p.m. today !
and 9 a.m. Saturday. Neil Warheit, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. AHAVIS ACHIM: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:40 a.m. Satur-
day. Jeffrey Wayne Morof, Bar Mitzva.
ADAS SHALOM SYNAGOGUE: Services 6 p.m. today and 8:50 a.m.
Saturday. Lawrence Kollenberg, Bar Mitzva.
BETH AARON SYNAGOGUE: Service 5 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m.
Saturday. Douglas Bengels and Michael Levy, Bnai • Mitzva.
CONG. BETH MOSES: Services 5:05 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Satur-
day. Gary Bressler and Robert Weiss, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI MOSHE: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m. Saturday.
Robert Grodin and Steven Goodman, Bnai Mitzva.
CONG. BNAI DAVID: Services 5 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Neil Stewart Osborne, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. BETH YEHUDAH: Services 5:10 p.m. today and 9 a.m. Satur-
day. Joseph Rothenberg, Bar Mitzva.
CONG. SHAAREY -ZEDEK: Services 5:15 p.m. today and 8:45 a.m.
Saturday. Robert Jay Begun and Steven Nathan Margolin, Bnai
Mitzva.
Regular services will be held at Livonia Jewish Congregation,
Shomrey Emunah, Mishkan Israel and Cong. Beth Joseph.

Temple Israel Dinner Slated for New Families

Temple Israel will welcome new temple and its affiliate groups, the
families affiliated with the congre- sisterhood, men's club, couples
gation at a Sabbath Eve Dinner 6 club and youth group, and is co-
p.m. today in the temple.
ordinated by the Affiliates Council,
Following dinner, the new mem- of which Reuben Levine is chair-
bers will be honored at the Sab- man.
bath service.
Guests will include all mem-
The program is sponsored by the
bers joining the temple since the

Rabbi Borowitz Due
at Temple Israel

last dinner a year ago, together
with all children from age 10.

The Sabbath candles will be lit
by Mrs. M. Robert Syme, and Can-
tor Harold Orbach will chant the
kidush at the Sabbath meal. Mes-
sages of greeting will be extended
by Dr. Leon Fram, Rabbi Syme
and Jack Caminker, vice president
of Temple Israel. A welcome also
will be extended by Mrs. Moe
Traurig, Sidney J. Newman Jr.,
Joseph Hacker and Marshall Gold-
berg, presidents, respectively of
sisterhood, men's club, couples
club and youth group.

Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, a fore-
most scholar in the Reform Jewish
movement, will be second speaker
in a series of
adult education
programs offered
by Temple Israel
9 p.m. Monday at
the temple.
Professor of
education and
Jewish religious
Mrs. Norman N. Robbins is co-
thought at t h e
chairman of arrangements. Wait-
New York school
ers and waitresses, as well as hosts
of the Hebrew
nad hostesses, will be officers and
Union College- Dr. Borowitz
Jewish Institute of Religion, Rabbi leaders of the temple and the af-
Borowitz will speak on "Can We filiate groups.
Believe in God—an Existentialist
Approach."
Rabbi Kertzer to Speak
Preceding the lecture. Rabbi
Leon Fram. Rabbi M. Robert Syme. at Temple Beth El Today
Cantor Harold Orbach and Cantor
Dr. Morris N. Kertzer, noted
Arthur Asher will teach courses in rabbi, writer and traveler, will oc-
Bible, history, prayerbook and mod- cupy the pulpit of Temple Beth El
ern Hebrew for beginners, begin- 8:30 p.m. today. Dr. Kertzer will
ring at 8 p.m.
preach on "Today's American Jew."
Rabbi Borowitz, for the second
Leader of the Larchmont Temple
year, serves as visiting professor of
religion at Princeton University in Larchmont, N.Y., Rabbi Kertzer
and held seminar appointments at was formerly national director of
Temple University and Columbia interreligious affairs for the Amer-
lean Jewish Committee. A prolific
University.
He previously served congrega- author, his articles have appeared
tions in St. Louis and New York, in Look, Reader's Digest, and the
and was national director of educa- New York Times. Dr. Kertzer wrote
tion for the Union of American the best seller "What Is a Jew?"
Hebrew Congregations before as- as well as the recent "The Art of
suming his present post. Being a Jew." His newest book is
The entire adult education pro- "Today's American Jew." In 1965,
gram of Temple Israel is open to Hebrew Union College conferred
the community. There is a nominal an honorary degree of doctor of
enrollment charge. divinity on Kertzer.

BY RABBI SAMUEL .1. FOR

(Copyright 1967, JTA inc.)

What is the purpose of the notes
that appear in the printed texts
of the Bible?"

The Rabbis in the Talmud (Me-
gillah 32a) tell us that whoever
reads the Tora without its approp-
riate melody displays his disregard
for the Tora and its laws. And it
was not just any melody that was
deemed appropriate for the chant-
ing of the Biblical texts. The rabbis
in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 101a)
further stated that whoever reads
the Tora with a secular melody
abuses it. The notes that are print-
ed along with the texts thus de-
pict the official melody of cantilla-
tion by which the Bible is to be
chanted.

700 Year-Old Temple

Dedicated in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Syna•
gogue of Hamandides in East Jeru-
salem, believed to be the oldest
Jewish house of worship in the
Old City, was rededicated in cere-
monies attended by President Zal-
man Shazar.
The synagogue is 700 years old.
Israeli police dispersed a group
of youths who had tried to conduct
public prayers on Temple Mount.
The prayers had been held in de-
fiance of a ban by the Israeli Chief
Rabbinate.

Why was the melody and its of-
fidal noted considered so import-
ant and basic to the reading of
the Bible?
For one thing the presence of
the printed note would indicate
the syllable on which the accent
is placed when pronouncing the
word. This is the general rule al-
though there are a few exceptions.
Furthermore, the notes serve as
punctuation marks indicating how
the words are to be grouped into
the appropriate phrases. Different
groupings of words in various sen-
tences sometimes vary the mean
ing of the text. Generally speaking
a melody makes it easier to re-
member a text. It also makes the
word more appealing to the ear.
The notes are therefore called
"neimot" from the word "Naim"
which means "pleasant." They are
also called "Ta-amim" from the
word Ta-am" meaning "sense" or
"meaning." The use of these two
terms indicate that the notes give
both "meaning" and "pleasant-
ness" to the text.
Why is it that these notes are
not written into the Holy Scrolls
from which the Tora is read?

Since the notes involve the
"meaning" of the text they were
originally classified under the cate-
gory of "oral law" or "oral tradi-
tion." The oral law or oral tradi-
tion was not originally given in
written form for a variety of rea-
sons including the reason that one
cannot really convey the full and
exhaustive meaning of anything in
writing. It must be conveyed to
each listener or student according
to his own capacity for under-
standing. It was only later on when
the diaspora threatened the disin-
tegration of Jewish culture that
even the "oral law" or "oral tra-
dition" was allowed to be reduced
to writing. Still, unlike the written
text of the Bible, this oral law is
an infinitely expanding literature
to which subsequent generations
of scholars continue adding mean-
ing and application. Music, like-
wise, is a growing cultural pheno-
menon which assumes deeper and
richer meaning along with the pro-
gress of civilization. Thus the notes
were originally not written into the
text. Indeed the greatest of artists
do not play or sing from written
notes but from an inner sense of
understanding which gives them
the appropriate melody for the
voice or the instrument. The musi-
cal notes that are eventually writ-
ten down are inscribed so that the
student or the novice will have a
chance to learn the genuine melody
which only the original master and
composer fully grasped. So it is
with the oral tradition of Jewish
law, where the original composer,
the Almighty himself formed the
teachings of the faith and subse-
quent generations after Moses at-
tempt to grasp the meanings of the
words and the music in their genu-
ine setting.

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