By ABBA HILLEL SILVER
The World Crisis and Jewish
Survival"
B. RABBI SaWl'EL J
1.11Z
(copyright.
1972.
Vox
Friday, August 18, 1972-13
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
JTA Inc.)
Here is the basic reason for the is bound by agreement to a higher
Jewish observance of the Sabbath. • power and thus does not work on
the Sabbath. In general, the ob-
Faith in God is the strongest
The Bible itself, when ordaining '• servance of the Sabbath gives the
bulwark of a free society. Human
Jew a chance to rise above the
the
observance
of
the
Sabbath.
freedom began when men became
imminent needs and pressures o f
conscious that over and above so- gives reasons. In one place the
his daily life to the transcendency .
ciety and nature there is a God Bible says that the Sabbath is to
of a higher order.
who created them, who breathed be observed as a "memorial to
His spirit into them, who fashioned
Pious people engage in study
Creation." By observin.1, the Sab-
them in His likeness, and that they
on the Sabbath.
are, therefore, possessed of in- bath the Jew offers testimony to
his belief that the Almighty
Without study, the observance
trinsic and independent signifi-
created the world and rested on of the Sabbath takes on a purely
cance and are endowed, as indi-
the Sabbath. Man, the image of negative form. It is for this reason
viduals. with original and irrevoc-
the Almighty, must, therefore, do that some people find it so diffi-
able rights and authority. When in
likewise. In another place, the cult to observe the Sabbath. To
the long past men challenged the
Bible considers the Sabbath as a
these people the Sabbath is only
right of kings or magistrates or
"memorial to the exodus from restrictive. They see no positive
restrictive customs and traditions,
Egypt,"
advantage. To the Jew who studies
they did so in the name of some •
The Sabbath, thus, is a symbol and contemplates on the Sabbath.
higher mandate derived from the
the
Sabbath is, indeed, a rich store-
A
slave
is
not'.
spirit of God within them, in the of man's freedom.
house of ideas to be harvested by
name of some moral sanction 'the master of his own destiny and
which emanated from their rela- is constantly' subject to the work- the human mind which is relaxed
and receptive on this day because'
tionship to God. Men became free ' order of his master_ Man, if he is
when they acknowledged a higher to be a free tieing, has to demon-' it has been freed from material
: citrate that there is at least one considerations. Man, on this day.
authority than that of state, class,
discovers the deep mysteries of ,
day in the week when he cannot
system or ruler
the realm of the intellect_ It is
be ordered to work.
the one day in which he shows
The Bible also refers to the Sab-
himself to be higher than the ani-
bath as a "sign of the Covenant "
mal because the animal cannot
Jewish tradition is based upon the
conceive of such experiences. 7. -ie
understanding of a covenantal rela-
Sabbath is. thus, a day- of sheer
tionship between man and the Al-
intellectual and spiritual delight.
i mighty. Refraining from work on
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Jerusalem Growth Causing Problems
for (it.,- Planners and Govt. Officials
JERUSALEM tJTA)--A meet- the Israeli Association of Architects
mg of architects and engineers was , and Engineers.
told here that if Jerusalem grows! Other speakers argued that while
to its anticipated population of • the high-rise buildings in Jerusalem
1,000,000 residents, the city will . would hardly qualify as skyscrap-
either have to spread out into the ers in other cities, the fact that
surrounding Judean hills, thus ruin-' such buildings were set against
ing its surroundings. or its officials the Judean hills gave the structures
will have to accept erection of the appearance of being more dom-
more high-rise buildings in the inant than they in fact were.
Yaacov Dash. chief architect
downtown area.
Mayor Teddy Kollek told the of Israel's interior Ministry, said
symposium on the theme of sky.1 it was impossible to decide just
scrapers in Jerusalem that it was' how a skyscraper would affect its
a very complicated problem to keep surroundings until it was built.
the city from expanding as long!
as people wanted to make it their
home. Jerusalem now has about
330,000 residents. Mordecai Ben
Horim an architect, said that the
only other solution was to limit the
city to 500,000 residents.
The meeting was sponsored by
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