Hasidic Response to Crisis 'Dr. Schwarzschild to Take Up
Dilemma' for Series
Explored by Dr. Greenberg 'German
"The German Dilemma" will be ence on Jewish Philosophy, the
In an age of crisis, in which ous is to take its spirit and guts
Judaism is put to test after test. out."
Hasidism did something else.
Hasidism could offer a model,
said Dr. Greenberg: It justified
an alternative if n o t the sole
it did not blame them for
a
searching
American
Jews;
answer, to
their condition. Never mind that
Jewry, a noted historian believes.
the
teamster
davened wh:le he '
Dr. Irving Greenberg, associate greased the wheels
of his dray.
professor of history a t y es hi va
The
Besht
would
say, "You see
University, discussed "A Hassidic
how
pious
the
Jews
are? Even
Response to Crisis" as the open- while they grease the
wheels,
ing lecture in the annual Mid-
they
pray."
-
rasha Institute, Tuesday evening
But for all its strengths, Hasi-
at the new United Hebrew Schools
dism
had
weaknesses.
said
Dr.
campus complex.
Greenberg. Even as it was uniting,
Interspersing his talk with isolated Jews, it was weakening,
excerpts from Ilasidic wisdom,
family life. Where was the woman
Dr. Greenberg traced the Hasi-
of the house while her husband
dic movement from its founding was dancing in the spirit of ec-
in another age -of crisis — the
stasy? Why, in the house.
Century,
when
East
Euro-
17th.
And the emphasis on ecstasy
pean Jewry was _foundering on and emotionalism also weakened
dispair, its numbers decimated
Ilasidism because, at the same
by pogroms, its spiritual hope time, it was resisting the forces
dashed by false messiahs.
of intellectualism.
Bitterly opposed in its time (the
Dr. Greenberg, who admits to
Vilna Gaon put a herem, or ban, being the descendent of a "mit.
on its practitioners to the point naeid." a foe of Hasidism. said
that "intermarriage" and pray- that Ilasidism "came at a great
ing with them was forbidden). moment, but it can't be duplicated
Hasidism with its joy and emotion, today." It is a world that has
offered an answer to the unmet changed, "and the Jewish people
needs of common. uneducated needs more." he said.
Jews who had blindly followed
However, the Hasidim can ex-
Shabatai Zvi, the false messiah. ist as an alternative group: per-
out of their own longing and reli- haps the "yearning for commun-
giosity.
ity" can bridge the gap, he said.
"They were wrong for the right "But we must do what Hasidism
reason." commented Dr. Greens- did in our own way."
berg, who added, "We are right
The vital religion is the religion
for the wrong reason." After that can renew itself. said Dr.
Auschwitz, not to have sought Greenberg, who suggested that in
after a messiah, he explained, this affluent society a renewal of
"shows how hard-hearted we have Jewish life with an emotion and
I excitement, with "a new spiritual
become."
The Baai Shem Toe (Keeper of and religious unity" is needed.
the Good Name, known also as "The synagogue today doesn't of-
the Besht), who founded the move- fer this."
And just as Hasidism did in its
ment, took the structure of Kab-
ala, with its emphasis on the cos- own day. "we have to defend the
Jews
after the Holocaust. If they-
mic significance of man's every
act, and popularized it made it 're not living as Jews we must
know
why. We must stress that
applicable to everyday life.
He stressed the striving for in- having a child is an act of pro-
found
faith. We must have a
dividual perfection and God's lib-
erating force, at the same time messianic dream — a new under-
ridding the philosophy of messi- standing and a new prayer after
Auschwitz."
anic references.
Unfortunately, the strength it
offered to that geneation was a 1st Year Studies
weakness 200 years later, when
political liberation could have been in Science Moved
within the grasp of the .Tews. Yet
their rebbes hung onto. the idea of to Scopus Campus
God as the sole liberator.
JERUSALEM — Some 850 first-
He pointed briefly to the on
year students of the Hebrew Uni-
of Cl6bad Lubavitch, the
versity faculty of science are now
intellectual arm of Ilasidism
which grew up in Lithuania, the studying on the Mount Scopus
center of learning which was the campus.
In the first stage of the transfer
original hotbed of opposition to
of first-year science studies to the
Hasidism.
Because it kept the mass of
Jews — however isolated they may
be from the centers of Jewish
life — religiously identified and
restored their sense of commun-
ity, Hasidism made tremendous
headway. "It took the struggling
Jew and brought in the theme of
joy, experience and participation.
It said every act is significant.
(The humblest tailor, according to
the Hasidim, was performing an
act of cosmic unification by his
sewing of one piece of materiar
to another). Hasidism gave new
hope to the Je•."
To the Jew in America, often
faced with the same isolation of
the Jew in Eastern Europe, the
Hasidic experience could provide
lessons. What comfort if a man
believes. "Wherever you are, God
is there" and if he believes himself
to be part of a greater living
community, said Dr. Greensberg.
Hasidism also brought a new
kind of rabbinic leadership — in-
spired but non-intellectual leaders
who emerged out of the life of
the common folk.
It is a weakness of the Ameri-
can rabbinate, he added, that
"the life of his people is not
shared" by the average pulpit
rabbi, whose congregation "has
set him on a pedestal . . . The
tzadilc was able to take the Jew
out of his uptight existence and
transform him into a mood of
ecstasy. To make religion decor-
explored by Dr. Steven Schwarz- Academic Council of the National
schild, professor of philosophy at Foundation for Jewish Culture and
Washington University, St. Louis. the academic supervisory board of
8:15 p.m. Tuesday at the LaMed the post-PhD Rogosin Institute of
Auditorium of tht Southfield cam- Yeshiva University. He is a direc-
pus complex of the 'United Hebrew tor of the Jewish Peace Fellowship
and has been chairman of the com-
Schools.
It will be the second lecture in mission on social justice of the
the Midrasha Institute, series New England Region, United Syna-
gogue of America.
named for Mina
and Theodore
I3argman.
D r . Schwarz
schild, who holds
the chair in Ju-
daic studies at
Washington U n
versity, also
teaches Jewish-
Christian studies
at Eden Theolog-
ical Seminary. He Schwarzschild
was editor from 1961 to 1969 of
Judaism Quarterl y, authored
"Franz Rosenzweig—Guide to Re-
versioners - published in Londcm
and has written many articles for
scholarly journals.
Born in 1924, Dr. Schwarzschild
holds a doctor of Hebrew letters
from Hebrew Union College-Jew-
ish Institute of Religion, where
he also was ordained. He was
rabbi of the Jewish community
of Berlin from 1948 to 1950 and
served in several pulpits in this
country before holding the Got-
tesman Chair in religious studies
at Brown University from 1964 to
1965.
He holds a number of honorary
positions, including membership on
Fort Wilkins at Copper Harbor in
Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula
is the only wooden fort east of
the Mississippi with its original
buildings still standing, according
to the Michigan Tourist Council.
DICK STEIN
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BY JESSE SILVER
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Adolph Schayes is back in coach-
ing after four years' service as
supervisor of National Basketball .
Association officials. Schayes re -'I
turns next season to lead the Bur
Palo expansion team.
Carl Scheer, former administra-
tive assistant to the NBA president,
will join Schayes at Buffalo as
' president of the upstate New York
club.
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"I was itching to get back into
coaching as soon as I heard that
Carl and Eddie (Donovan) were
involved in the new franchise," ,
said Schayes. "I called them be-
cause central New York is where
I want to stay and I want to he
with these guys."
A former All-America player at
NYU, Schayes joined the Syracuse
Mount Scopus campus, students National in 1948. During his 16
will snend from 3 to 4 days per years as a player with Syracuse
week of their course there and the and the Philadelphia 76ers the 6'8"
remainder of the time on the forward made the NBA all-star
GiVat Ram campus — this split team 12 times. In 1955 he led the
necessitated by the fact that re- Nationals to their only league
construction and building of the ' championship. Schayes was the
Mount Scopus science lecture NBA's all-time scorer when he
retired as a player after the 1963-
rooms is not yet complete.
The faculty is structuring, its 64 season. His 1,059 games played
timetable so that a student whose is still a league record.
Schayes compiled a won - lost
program begins on Mount Scopus
on any given day will continue record of 129-111 in his three years
as coach of the 76ers. In 1966
Philadelphia won the Eastern Div-
ision title and Schayes was named
coach of the year. Differences with
Wilt Chamberlain led to his dis-
missal as coach.
I Scheer, 32, is a native of Spring-
. field, Mass., and was graduated
from Middlebury College where he
was captain of the basketball and
baseball teams. He received a law
degree from the University of
Miami Law School and for some
years practiced in Greensboro,
North Carolina.
Scheer was captain of Spring-
field's Classical High School bas-
ketball teams in his junior and
senior years and won all-state
honors in both basketball and base-
ball. Following graduation, he en-
tered Colgate University on a bas-
ketball scholarship, winning a var-
sity letter in his sophomore year.
Few states equal Michigan in He then transferred to Middlebury
per capita support of higher edu- and played two more years of
varsity basketball there.
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that day's work on the Scopus
campus.
At the beginning of the next
academic year, when building
work will have been completed, all
first-year science studies will be
transferred to Mount Scopus.
Currently at the disposal of
the faculty are a building com-
prising the library, faculty offi-
ces and a number of classrooms;
and a laboratory building, which
includes teaching laboratories.
Nearing complelion is a complex
of lecture halls which will be
ready by October.
Additional facilities for students
now studying and living on the
Mount Scopus campus (and these
include the entire faculty of law)
are a restaurant for 800 persons,
and a snack bar — the latter in
the law faculty building.
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