THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 12, 1968-51
Tradition of Sabbath Naps
BY RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
(Copyright 1967, JTA Inc.)
Jewish tradition regards it as
a virtue to take a nap on Saturday
afternoons.
Rabbi Moses Isserles (Ram'a,
Shulhan Aruch, Orach Chayim
290:1) says that a person should
make it a habit to nap on Satur-
day afternoon because napping
on the Sabbath is one of the
"pleasures" which is characteristic
of the Sabbath. The Lurianic Kab-
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balists relate that Rabbi Isaac
Luria would nap for two or three
hours every Saturday afternoon.
Some commentaries feel that the
reason for the nap on the after-
noon of the Sabbath is because of
the proverbial "additional soul"
which a Jew gains on the Sabbath.
The sleep on Friday night is for
the original soul while the nap on
Saturday afternoon is for the "ad-
ditional soul" (B'nei Yissachar,
Shabbatot, 10:6). From a practical
point of view the Saturday after-
noon nap is another indication of
the special significance of the day.
It is another way of making the
day different than the other days
of the week. Whereas, one has no
opportunity to nap during the
weekday afternoons, one does so
on the Sabbath for the sake of en-
joying the holy day which the Al-
• mightly gave us for rest.
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and Family
Much is being written today
about parent-children's relation-
ships, father-son conflicts, family
involvements.
A novel as powerful as any that
has appeared on the subject re-
cently is "A Rightful Inheritance"
by Gerald Zeigerman, published
by Atheneum (122 E. 42nd,
NY17).
Zeigerman consistently pursues
the theme involving Dr. Nash and
his son Sigmund, and incidentally
Mrs. Nash is the other concerned
member of the family who shares
to a degree the anxieties in which
a precious child drags them in.
Primarily this is the story of
the father, who tells the story in
the first person, and the son. And
the son had his complicated ideas.
First it was an interest in art,
then dancing, then a turn to the
muscle-man set, and an interest
in record clubs — and psychiatry.
Then comes college and the dis-
appointments.
Sigmund finally gets an apart-
ment of his own — and the right-
ful inheritance always material-
izes: father always pays. Then
there is a trip to Europe, and
that's the payoff, with indebted-
nesses that father hesitates to pay
but finally does and brings the
son back.
It's not as simple as all that.
Ziegerman must be given credit
for having created a great interest
in his - narrative, for having writ-
ten a story that touches on many
aspects of life — in an excellent
style, holding the reader glued to
his tale.
Only three times does the author
indicate the Jewishness of these
characters. The first time when
Dr. Nash refers to his childhood
in Russia, the second time when
he tells his son he can take his
Bar Mitzva money for his Euro-
pean trip. And a third time when
Sigmund is advised also to visit
Israel.
In reality, this could be a story
about any one, any people, any
faith — and regardless of the
ethnicity it is a good story.
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they share the rest of the Jewish
heritage. Habima is the national
theater of the Jewish people.
Habima was founded 50 years
ago in Moscow. Russian Jewry
was not only the largest Jewish
community in the world since the
end of the lath Century but also
the greatest Jewish center, the
powerhouse of Jewish learning and
the treasurehouse of Jewish lore.
Russian Jewry has given us the
Gaon of Vilna and Shneer Zalman
of Liadi; Mendele, Peretz and
Sholom Aleichem; Bialik, Tscher-
nichovsky and Shneur; Volozhin
and Slobodka. No other Jewish
community could possibly have
produced the Habima. And when
the time came, Habima moved to
Eretz Israel.
The beginnings were rather
small-13 dedicated people, com-
mitted to the creation of a Hebrew
theater amidst the turmoil follow-
ing the Russian Revolution. The
great director Stanislaysky (his
real name was Konstantin Sergee-
vich Alexeev) liked the idea and
delegated his star disciple, Yev-
geny Vachtangov, a young Ar-
menian, to work with Habima
(which means "the stage"). The
three component parts which went
into the creation of Habima were
the natural talent and dedication
of the original members — the
Hebrew language and the Russian
school of acting. After some hectic
activity and a production of four
one-act vignettes, work started on
"The Dybbuk"— and Habima had
arrived.
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a Moscow backstreet and grew to
become one of the artistic ele-
ments in the construction of the
Third Jewish Commonwealth.
SUPERIOR OLDS
Stuart Hample, in his novel for
teenagers, "Blood for Holly War-
ner," published by Harper & Row,
treats Howie Coleman, who is
called by his father "the nicest
little Jewish boy in the state of
Maryland," in a rather confused
chap.
Howie- is concerned about the
actress Holly Warner, is ready to
give her blood, .to aid her.
Howie . is worried about a lot of
things. His father worries him.
The uncle and aunt and the grand-
mother, the Cohens, disturb him.
He is in many dilemmas.
A cause for puzzlement is
Howie's attempt to hide his Jew-
ishness when he goes to temple.
Howie learns a lesson. When he
is about to be published by his
father, Sam Coleman makes be-
lieve he is beating him, Howie
abandons his fears, makes up his
mind Holly Warner no longer
needs him. He concludes "no one's
perfect . . . we're all more hu-
man than otherwise," and that's
really the lesson of Hample's
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Golem" and "Hayehudi Hanitzchi"
("The Eternal Jew") belong to
this period. "Hayehudi Hanitzchi"
was not be the best play ever
written, but it is a play no Jew
can watch with dry eyes. Hannah
Rovina's weeping at the destruc-
tion of the Temple penetrates the
soul of the Jews and fills it with
a great sadness which lingers
and lingers. When the European
catastrophe fell upon the Jews,
the echoes of Rovina's weeping at
the destruction of the Temple
emerged from the recesses of the
Jewish soul to help express the
pain and the anguish.
The producer of this play was
a Russian called Mechdilov, a
disciple of Stanislaysky.
There have been memorable
productions achieved in Israel by
Habima from "Julius Caesar" by
the Bard and Goethe's "Faust" to
"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur
Miller and "Look Back in Anger"
by John Osborne. Nothing human
is alien to Habima. It is today a
mid-20th Century theater in a mod-
ern society. But its contribution
and its place in modern Jewish
history rest upon those early days
and early plays.
Habima started in a studio in
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There were other plays in the
By S. J. GOLDSMITH
Writes Effective
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
early years, all of them memor-
Israelis and the Jews of able and all of them anchored
Father-Son Novel the The
Diaspora share Habima as to the messianic longing. "The
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