Holy Days Delineated as Intrument of Mental Health
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If a man makes a harness
By EDWARD 'I% SANDRAW All these values are also in this context and in the
how much the
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more
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teral Psychiatry at the Jew- of a modicum of mental ish living, can help make us
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The Holy Days — Rosh fact that a certain quantity This was the original intent lead a good or evil life.
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Hashana and Yom Kippur — of our - livei is determined of the holy day season. It is
—T. J. Sanhedrin, 10 1
••=1, are times of introspection for us. Yet, in the process equally true to-day.
and
spiritual
recreation.
This
of
achieving
mental
health.
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season of the year is a call for any person, the Jewish THE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS
to conscience. More than notion of "free will" plays
that: it is a time for stock- a part. We cannot always
HOLIDAY GREETINGS
taking of the state of one's blame others or mankind for
TO OUR MANY FRIENDS
our guilt. Our frustrations
mental health.
Recent events in the polit- are not always "beshert" or
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ical history of America have due to fate. That is the basic
pointed up two facts. One is theme of the holy days. That
the prevalence of so many is why the Jew is told to lis-
"emotional breakdowns," ten to the sound of Shofar
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often hidden or incorrectly on Rosh Hashana.
As Maimonides, almost
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interpreted. Second is the
lack of understanding on the a millenium ago taught us,
"arouse
you
sleepers
from
part of most people, in spite
your slumber," that is,
of all the public education in
the area of mental health, of keep away from the tricks
Healthy New Year
of escape, from a sense
the true nature of "break-
of 'helplessness.
downs," of depression, of
"Our God and God of our fathers, pardon
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self-punishment, of what The Jew is told to explore
our iniquitous on this Atonement Day. Efface
Freud called "those wrecked his inner self and repent in
the Jewish Community
by success." order to renew his relation-
our transgressions and our sins, and make
These "Days of Awe" are ship to himself, and then to
then a storehouse for the his community, to Israel.
them pass away from before Thine eyes; as
study of the psychology of and to the world. Thus, he
it is written in Scripture, 'I, even I, am He that
religion and mental health. will gain the insight which
Prof. Mortimer Ostow of enable him to rid himself. as
effaceth thy transgressions for Mine own sake.'
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centeredness, and open his
Psychiatry at the Jewish
I have blotted out as a cloud thy transgres-
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needs pf his people, to Fed-
America. has indicated
sions, and, as a mist, thy sins: return unto Me
eration, to the United Jewish
that religion under certain
Best Wishes for a Happy, Healthy
for I have redeemed thee.' For on this day
circumstances can sustain Appeal.
8 Peaceful New Year
The whole atmosphere of
"the energy level of the
shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse
the holy days is filled with
ego" and that religious
clinical opportunities. Jew-
worship can act, "in gen•
you; from all your sins shall ye be clean before
ish history. Jewish loyalties
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era!, to create the impres-
are charged with values that
the Lord."
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sustain one as a Jew. They
ing the ego energy level,
tlethlation from I ruled
are also supportive of the
and In this way create in
contributors
to
the
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the individual and the . . .
search for menial health and
community, optimism, en•
better inter-personal rela-
thusiasm and morale,
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Rosh Hashana and
which not only give pleas•
Our Sincerest greetings on the
Yom Kippur understood then
are to the individual but
strengthen the comm u-
to family and friends
nity."
There is a relationship be-
tween Jewish values and
mental health and the Holy
Days illuminate this fact. It
is therefore no surprise that
from the days of Freud to
the present moment, Jews
'
even those who fought hard
to prove that they were
::: "freed" from their Jewish
i antecedents, have been in the
forefront of the professions
Ilemillo i:":. of psychiatry and psycho
.:.: immui■r-,
therapy. One who has beer
a religionist and a devotee
of Jewish peoplehood
the "Veil' Year Bring Peace **i ago
discovered that emotion
al disorders are definitely in-
and Contentment to all Israel
volved in the individual's
reaction to his life experi-
:-:-
:::and to the .Nrations of the li-orld
race.
A human being may have
symptoms of dysfunction. If
one
suffers physically, one
God, that doest wondrously,
seeks the advice and treat-
God, that doest wondrously,
ment of a physician. If one
Pardon at Thy people's cry,
..... has a psychological dysfunc-
As the closing hour draws nigh !
Lion due to dependency,
Few are Israel's sons and weak:
childhood frustrations or
Thee, in penitence, they seek
emotional deprivations, one
0 regard their anguished cry,
*; should seek the help and
As the closing hour draws nigh !
support of an expert in the
area of mental health. Some.
Souls in grief before Thee poured,
times, if the nature of one's
Agonize for deed and word;
psychological
problems have
"We have sinned ! Forgive !" they cry
not
been established as c•in-
nigh
!
As the closing hour draws
ically severe. a Jew can turn
Heal them ! Let their trust in Thee
to the literature and lore of
Turn aside Wrath's dread decree;
his people to discover how
Doom them not, but heed their cry,
best Judaism, and those per-
As the closing hour draws nigh !
sonalities throughout history
For our Fathers' righteousness
who have practiced it, faced
Save us now in our distress:
society and its manifold chal-
lenges. These values can
Make us glad with freedom's cry,
then contribute inner
As the closing hour draws nigh !
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•:.: strength and meaning to
— Moses Ibn Ezra, 1070-1138 ••••:-.' him
(Translated by S. Sobs-Cohen)
The tremendous ethical
and human content of
Judaism can help the Jew
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of the coming year
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