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December 19, 1969 - Image 17

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1969-12-19

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Dr. Flexner's Su n Subbuth Ki(hhish
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
Writes Saga About
JTA, Inc.)
Famous Physi• :ia us Tin• meal on Friday evening as

(C. , pyrighl, 1969.

\tell as on Saturday morning be-
Disease and medical incenwi- gins with the recital of the Kidush
tence played a major part in the while the meal on Saturday after-
noon is not begun with the recital
history of the American Itch
of it.
tion and the early Republic. Peoplc
Actually, there are sources that
fled Philadelphia in terror wilco
yellow fever killed thousamk; doe- indicate that the Kidush should be
recited before the third meal as
tors continued to bleed their dying well (Setter Rabbi Amram Gaon).
patients. Doctors were trained by Many have cited the position of
being apprenticed to practicing Maimonides who evidently requir-
physicians, many of whom had ni ed the recital of the Kidush
at the
formal education of their own. third meal. A medieval savant
Germs were unheard of, and anti- who specialized in the study of
gentles and anesthetics were un- liturgy (Abudraham) explains the
known. Much of pre - Civil W:ir position of Rabbi Asher (the
medical practice was blind stum- "Rosh") as well as others who did
bling through darkness. Yet the not require the recitation of Kid-
challenge of disease was ever pres- ush before the third meal. They
ent, more insistent to the doctors claimed that the purpose of the
on horseback than the challenge of Kidush was to indicate that the
the wilderness. In the settlements meal to be eaten was a sanctified
of early America were created doe- meal and was being eaten in honor
tors of genius, courage and deter- of the Sabbath. It was enough then
mination, who, often without prop- to recite Kidush once in the eve-
er knowledge or tools, made dis- ning (Friday night) to indicate
Coveries that helped usher in the' that all that was eaten Friday
age of modern medical science.
night was being consecrated as a
In his first hook, "Doctors on „Sabbath meal. It was therefore
Horseback," a Dover paperback, also enough to recite Kidush
James Thomas Flexner created a once in the daytime to indicate that
vivid biography of several early this meal as well as any other
American physicians: John Mor- meal which was to be eaten on this
gan, the most brilliant physician in day would be consecrated as - Sab-
the Colonies, founder of the first bath meals. Thus the third meal
medical school, head of the Con- (Seuda Sh'lishit) of the Sabbath
tinental Army's medical depart. had already been consecrated as a
ment; William Shippen, Jr., his Sabbath meal by the Kidush that
enemy and rival (and the battle was already recited at the morn-
that raged between them); Ben- ing meal.
jamin Rush, a powerful and con-
troversial man; Ephraim Mc-
Dowell, the leading surgeon of the
Kentucky frontier (including the
agonizing story of the first hyste-
rectomy); Daniel Drake, medical
educator on the Ohio; John Lam-
bert Richmond, the pioneer of
Caesarian operations; -William
Beaumont, one of America's great-
est physiologists, and the first to
isolate pure human gastric juice;
Crawford W. Long and William T.
G. Morton, co-discoverers of the
anesthetic properties of ether.
Seven extraordinary characters
are recreated for the modern
reader. These portraits have the
authenticity of historical research
and the color of contemporary fic-
tion. Flexner admits that his bril-
liant narrative of the pioneers of
American medicine blends the in-
fluence of his home environment
With what were more specifically
his personal predilections. His
father was the famous scientific
investigator, Dr. Simon Flexner.

lnutch Underground
iActivities Outlined
• Novel by Mundell
in

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Paul Mandel, whose novel,
"Mainside" was a best seller, was
only half-way through writing his
novel "The Black Ship" when he
died of cancer at the age of 36.
.11is wife, Sheila, completed it. It
has been published by Random
House and is an outstanding work
on incidents of the last war.
It is the story of an American's
experiences on a PT boat in the
English Channel.
The role of the German SS is ex-
posed here, and a factor of great
significance in the novel is the 4,
description of the activities of the •
Dutch underground. •
"The Black Ship" by Paul and ! .•
Sheila Mandel i5 a powerful nar- . •
rative, about the war, the elements •
involved in the great struggle, the ' •
Nazis and the anti-Nazis. It is one ;
of the major works of fiction about •
World War II.

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Body and Spirit

By ELIEZER BERKOVITZ
"God, Man and History."

The affirmation of earthly needs
and vital impulses is characteristic
of the whole system of the law of
Judaism. Sabbath and holidays are
not observed "spiritually," or
should they be so observed. Man is
not a spirit. On the Sabbath, there-
fore, not only the soul should find
peace, but the body too should
rest. One celebrates the day not
only by meditation and prayer, but
also by wearing Sabbath clothes
and by partaking of the Sabbath
meals. The Sabbath meal itself is
a Mitzva; it is divinne service.
And if properly performed, it is a
service of a far higher quality than
that of prayer and meditation
alone; it is the service of the whole

man.

The enjoyment of the Sabbath is
neither spiritual nor material: it
is wholly human. Body and spirit
celebrate the Sabbath in common-
ion.The Jew who keeps the Sab-
bath may say that the material
enjoyments of the day enhance his
spiritual elation and that his spirit-
ual elation renders the material
enjoyments more gratifying. In the
unifying act of the mitzva the Sab-
bath acts as "a spice" to the
palate and as an exhilarating ie) .
for the spirit of man.

There is a logic of colors, and it
is with this alone, and not with the
logic of the brain, that the painter
should conform. —Paul Cezanne.



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