THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 22, 1967-41 Gems From 'American Judaism' Gems' from American Judaism; ation of noteworthy views on im- the' quarterly magazine published portant problems. by the Union ofAmerican Hebrew Prominent names are to be congregations, have even' iricorp- found among 'the authors and orated into a single vOlume as "The drawings that illustrate*the book' American Judaism Reader,"' pub- are among some of the best lished by Abelard-Schuman (6 W. known artists, including Ben 57th, NY 19). Shahn, Penrid Scofiekd, Jacob Edited by Paul Kresh, the sel- Landau, Saul Field and others. ections include essays, poems, Norman Cousins, Philip Roth, short stories and other valuable Charles Angoff, Karl Shapiro, Les- material that serves to guide read- lie Fiedler. Dan Jacobson, Isaac ers regarding major issues in Jew- Bashevis Singer, Meyer Levin, ish life and as informative compil- Richard M. Elman, Alfred Werner, Elias Lieberman and a score of others are among the participating Holiday Greetings authors. There is a variety of topics on Edith Eckstat, R.E. faith, humor, threats, personali- and ties. politics. Albert Wolgin, R.E. And there are many essays deal- Hair Removed Forever , ing with Jews in many lands. The race issue is , discussed in several WO 3-3047 — WO 3-0922 essays and the coverage of issues 1309 David Broderick Tower relating to America, Jewry and Israel is quite thorough. The editor displayed good Best Wishes for a judgement in his selections. The stories are superb, the poetry Happy Hanuka reflects the spirit of the age, the entire volume echoes with spir- itual strength imbedded in the faith inspired by many of the , expressions of noted rabbis. Although it -is an anthology stemming from an official organ of one of our religious groups, it is universal in its appeal and flanuka Greetings serves well as a volume of notable collected works suitable for read-, DETROIT ers of all denominations. Traditional Benediction By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX (Copyright 1967, JTA Inc.) The traditional Jewish benedic- tion begins by speaking to the Almighty addressing Him in the second person, and then switches to the third person form of expres- sion (i.e. "Blessed art Thou — who —") This pattern is not one which was universally agreed upon ori- ginally. There was one opinion (that of the 'Amora Samuel) who claimed that in a benediction one did not address the Almighty in the second nerson at all. According to this option a benediction simply stated "Blessed be the Almighty who ...". The opinion that was offi- cially accented as binding was that of Ray (Yerushalmy-Berakoth 9:1) who gave us the formula we use to this very day (i.e., "Blessed art Thou — who —") using both the second as well as the third person in addressing the Almighty. Some commentators , consider this form' as simply a continuation of the' original Biblical style which evi- dently was used in oriental texts' in those days. This is drawn, for example, from the sequence of ver- ses in one of the Psalms (Psalms 145) where one verse states "All your works give thanks to You 0 Lord" while a succeeding verse states "to make known to the sons of man His mighty acts." Some commentators claim (e.g.. Ibn Yarchi) that when one men- tions the name of the Almighty one RENDERING CO. 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