Hard-Working Elijah Rates Warm Welcome
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1969, JTA Inc.)
Everybody has a right to come
and eat at anyone's seder. The
Hagada says, "Everyone who is
hungry, let him come and eat."
One visitor is sure to be there,
Eliyahu ha-Navi, Elijah, the Pro-
phet. At every seder, the door is
opened for him.
I remember an incident of my
childhood. It was seder night and
I saw the door open. I went and
closed it. My mother said, "Leave
the door open. It's for Eliyahu ha-
Navi to come in."
I said, "When he comes, he can
ring the bell."
"And suppose we don't bear it,"
said mama. "You're going to keep
him standing by the door, maybe
catching a cold."
He could come down the chim-
ney," I said.
"I'll give you a chimney," she
said. "I don't want nobody crawl-
ing down my chimney and do you
know how many seders he has to
visit? How would you like to come
down a million chimneys? He is
not as young as you, you know."
no, • •
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son but he is plenty busy the year
round. His job is to look for peo-
ple in trouble and bring them help
and in that line, it's always busy.
For the average person, the tra-
veling itself would make the job
impossible but, according to the
Midrash, in four steps, Eliyahu can
go from one end of the world to
the other.
Some don't believe he comes.
This is because he has so many
disguises and sometimes he is en-
tirely invisible. But just because
you can't see him, doesn't prove
he hasn't come. You can't see elec-i
tricity either, but it's there.
If he didn't come around, would
everybody fill a special cup of wine
reserved for him on the seder
table?
• • •
He doesn't really care whether
you see him or not. His one pur-
pose is to accomplish his mission.
Like the time when the Roman
Emperor Hadrian in his persecu-
tion of the Jews ordered the arrest
of Rabbi Meier. The Roman police
searched everywhere for him. At
a roadside inn, they were told of a
man who answered the description
of Rabbi Meier. He was accom-
panied, they said, by a painted-up
' woman of the street. So the Roman
I police thought it couldn't be Rabbi
Meier, who wouldn't be in such
company.
Do you know who the painted-up
woman was? It was Eliyahu na-
Navi in a disguise which he adopt-
ed to keep the police off the scent.
Once a king visited one of his
towns and the rabbi of the Jewish
community went out to meet him
with the offering of a precious
jewel. When the rabbi opened the
box before the king, he saw that
the jewel had been stolen and the
thief had substituted some sand.
The king, the rabbi thought, would
never forgive the Jews. In this
desperate moment, the prime min-
ister suddenly appeared and assur-
ed the king that this sand was
magical, worth far more than any
jewel, and later it was proven this
was so. All of this was accom-
plished by the intervention of
Eliyahu.
• • •
There are times when a person
does not know where his next meal
will come from. Then somehow
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help arrives. One may be sure that
Eliyahu has been around. Many
students of the Talmud, perplexed
by obscurities in the text, have
been aided by Eliyahu.
To be sure, there are many times
when people mistakenly imagine
that they have seen Eliyahu. A
man came to the rabbi of Bialy-
stok and said he had seen Eliyahu.
"How did he look?" asked the
rabbi. "Was he carrying a ladder
in one hand and a broom in the
other?"
"Yes," said the man.
"And did he look very dark?"
asked the rabbi.
"Yes," said the man.
"And was his face covered with
ashes?"
"Exactly," said the man.
"Well," said the rabbi, "that was
not Eliyahu, that was the chimney
sweep."
But this, of course, does not
mean that some have not seen him.
One day the whole world will see
him. He will introduce the Mos-
hee'akh.
• • •
All the people of the world will
be standing around and Eliyahu
ha-Navi will come forth and make
a little speech. He will say:
"My friends, please everybody,
be quiet. We have a very distin-
guished guest here today, a man
you have been waiting for a very
long time. My friends, I don't want
to keep you waiting any longer."
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I pres-
ent the Moshee'akh!"
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