Holy Days Delineated as Intrument of Mental Health New Year Greetings Happy Neu. Year If a man makes a harness By EDWARD 'I% SANDRAW All these values are also in this context and in the how much the Visiting Professor of Pas- inherent in Hie achievement totality of human and Jew- for his beast, more should he fashion a teral Psychiatry at the Jew- of a modicum of mental ish living, can help make us D. KATZ, Prop. OIL COMPANY health. The very nature of God-like, so that we can live harness for his impulses, ish Theological Seminary. WM. lerle - 11144.41 existence presupposed the up to the highest within us. which may prompt him to PI.= ►ms — 14330 Wyoming (A Sews Arty weather) El,esrial S•pplie•. Lae. The Holy Days — Rosh fact that a certain quantity This was the original intent lead a good or evil life. Detroit 2561 Puritan Dl 1-3724 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. • Friday, Sept. 8, 1972—B-11 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 AND CUSTOMERS 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 15850 W. 7 MILE often hidden or incorrectly on Rosh Hashana. As Maimonides, almost 835-2999 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 Our Friends, Customers and 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.' far as he can, from self- the department of Pastoral 585 Kenilworth centeredness, and open his Psychiatry at the Jewish I have blotted out as a cloud thy transgres- Theological Seminary of heart and his pocket to the 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 TEL-TWELVE MALL era!, to create the impres- are charged with values that the Lord." sion of rebirth by sustain- SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN 45075 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 .Strzagogue Prover 11, ,ok the individual and the . . . search for menial health and community, optimism, en• better inter-personal rela- thusiasm and morale, FANCY CAKES • PIES MOLDS • NAND PACKED ICE CREAM tions. 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. 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