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New Reform Hagada Restores Many Traditions
NEW YORK — Ref or m
Jews this year will observe
Passover with a new Hagada.
The new worship volume,
seven years in the making,
has been prepared by the
Central Conference of Amer-
ican Rabbis.
Leonard Baskin, noted art-
ist, has provided 20 new
watercolor illustrations de-
picting the characters and
symbolisms of the Passover
ritual.
A trade edition of the
Hagada (10r14) will be re-
leased by Grossman P u b -
lishers, a division of Viking
Press. Both the deluxe edi-
tion and a paperback version
(7x10) will be distributed ex-
clusively by the CCAR.
Rabbi Herbert Bronstein of
North Shore Congregation.
Israel, Glencoe, Ill., is the
editor of :.the Hagada.
A number of traditional
Hagada symbolisms and a
few new ones have been in-
chided in the new text.
The service of the plagues,
describing the 10 calamities
befalling the ancient Egypt-
ians until they released the
Israelites from slavery had
been eliminated in the 1923
Reform service. This has
been restored and reinter-
preted to relay the hope for
the deliverance of everyone
from oppression.
Another prayer that has
been restored from tradition
is the phrase "Next Year in
Jerusalem" which was left
out, according to Rabbi Bron-
stein, because of the anti-
Zionist feelings among Re-
form Jews in the early 1900's
and also because they had
lost the symbolic meaning of
Jerusalem as a representa-
tion of the homecoming of all
people, not only of Jews —
the universal homecoming."
As an example depicting
the Reform Jews' recovery
of the spiritual dimension in
prayer, Rabbi Bronstein
points to the inclusion of the
Elijah service, where the
door is opened for this super-
natural visitor who repro-_
sents hope for the helpless
and the coming of the mes-
sianic kingdom of peace on
earth.
Rabbi Bronstein mentions
an innovation introduced into
the CCAR Hagada service—
a fifth can of wine "drawing
hope for the future from the
symbolisms of the ancient Seder table and foods and
prophets of Israel to the in- the 's e r v i c e has been de-
spiration obtained by all Jews scribed for the layman by
today from the state of Rabbi W. Gunther Plaut of
Israel." Toronto's Holy Blossom
The Hagada included a Temple.
wide range of new and tradi-
D r . Lawrence Hoffman,
tional music prepared by a professor of liturgy at the
sub-committee under the New York School of Hebrew
guidance of Rabbi Malcolm Union College, has prepared
Stern.
a special historical account
A chapter offering advice of the Hagada and t1-1
on the preparation of the service.
Come Back, Sheba!
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.)
Ethiopia has been in the
news lately, but not with the
pleasant note of ye old days.
What a story was that which
the Associated Press carried
some 2,500 years back! We
have an old copy of the Jeru-
salem Times telling about it.
The type is mostly faded, but
oddly enough the headline is
still discernible:
KING SOLOMON
WELCOMES
QUEEN OF SHEBA
Israel people threw bou-
quets enthusiastically greet-
ing ruler of Ethiopia.
The story of the Queen of
Sheba's visit has gotten more
play than all of Henry Kis-
singer's visits. Even the Sun-
day school children know it.
So much has been written
about this royal visit that it
is difficult to distinguish be-
tween fact and legend. The
columnists of those days tell
many strange things. For in-.
stance, the columnist of the
Midrash has a story that
King Solomon directed his
chefs to put extra salt in the
Queen's dinner, so that later,
becoming thirsty, she would
go traipsing to his chambers
where the water cooler was
kept.
Most of the papers, espe-
cially the Midrash say the
visit is educationally moti-
vated. One reports that in
order to test his wisdom, the
Queen brought along a bunch
of flowers, real and artificial,
the latter so finely contrived
as to be indistinguishable
from the real. Solomon
chuckled. He noticed nearby
some bees. Opening the win-
dow he let them in and see-
ing the direction they went,
knew, of course, immediately
which were the real ones.
The Queen of Sheba had a
good laugh.
Today, some profess to be
able to talk to flowers. As far
as Solomon is concerned, that
was old hat. The Queen of
Sheba was particularly im-
pressed, according to the
Midrash, by a conversation
of Solomon with a butterfly.
The King and Queen of Sheba
happened to be passing when
one butterfly standing on the
Temple wall was talking to
another butterfly boasting
that if it wanted, it could
cause the wall of the Temple
on which it was standing, to
cave in.
Solomon was indigant. He
had the bragging butterfly
brought before him. "Why do
you talk such nonsense?" he
asked. "You know very well
you couldn't budge the Tem-
ple wall."
"Well," said the butterfly,
"Your Majesty, you know
how it is. I wanted to impress
my girl friend."
But evidently, there was
more to the visit of the Queen
than nature study. The Bible
speaks of the copper mines
which Solomon worked. Until
very recent times, however,
there were no evidences of
the existence of copper mines
in Israel, and some skeptics
thought the who matter
was simply a pretty legend,
but some twenty odd years
back, Dr. Nelson Glueck of
the Hebrew Union College
discovered the mines in the
N e g e v. The consensus of
scholarly opinion today is
that one of the purposes of
the Queen of Sheba's visit
was to purchase copper, but
this does not deny the under-
lying basis of the other stor-
ies. A spirit of good will ex-
isted between Israel and
Ethiopia and trade and good
will go together. Israel, under
Solomon's long reign of 40
years enjoyed complete peace
with her neighbors. If it has
happened before, why cannot
it happen again?
Come back, Sheba!
Camp Memoir Cited
BONN — Germaine Tillon,
ethnologist and university
teacher, was awarded this
year's "Prix Voltaire" for
her book "Ravensbruck." in
"The Plagues of Egypt" and "The Four Mothers of
which she writes about the Israel," two of the 20 full-color original illustrations by
time she spent in the con- Leonard Baskin from "A Passover Hagada," prepared by
centration camp after 1943. the Central Conference of American Rabbis.