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, • • Passover is Elyahu's busiest sea- Passover Greetings PIEDMONT AUTO ELECTRIC SERVICE Motor Tune-Up Specialist Trucks and Passenger Cars E. H. Harison 19215 Plymouth BR 2-1600 PASSOVER GREETINGS Sam's Carpet and Furniture Cleaning 18011 Hubbell UN 4-6203 IP 411P • • 4i■ HAPPY HOLIDAY POWELL PRINTING CO. Letterpress - Offset 2545 Waverly TO 6-8130 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 Holiday Greetings STUDIO GALLERY OF ART 13516 Second Ave. at Davison Detroit, Michigan 48203 868-8442 Einstein Medical Center Sets Largest Wage Hike PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The Albert Einstein Medical Center announced approval of a $1,500 - 000,000 wage increase, the largest in the medical center's 17-year his- tory, covering almost all of the medical center's 3,600 full and part-time employes. Julius Klein, president, said the action indicated that the medical center's trustees "have continued to recognize the need of our em- ployes to receive wages that re- flect cost-of-living increases." The increases raise the new base rate of pay at the medical center to $2 an hour. Dr. Pascal Lucchesi, the medical center's executive vice president and medical director, said that while "we are delighted to provide this increase for our employes, we are equally con- scious of the fact that this in turn will be reflected inevitably in higher health service costs." He added that the medical center sought to "balance equitably" ob- ligations to both employes and patients. GUBNER VERSATILE Happy Passover ROBERT LAURIE Wholesale Beef and Boneless Cuts 9435 Copland 2852 Eighteenth St. 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." 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