62—Friday, Sept. 13, 1974 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Alex & Elizabeth Joseph 1 1 13401 Dartmouth, Oak Park I I. Wish All Their Friends and Relatives A Happy, Healthy and Pros.e.ersous New Year I THE RADOMER AID SOCIETY Wish All Their Members and Friends A Happy , Healthy and Prosperous New Year We wish all our relatives and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year MR. & MRS. HERMAN WOHL Allen Park, Mich. $438 Louise MR. and MRS. JULES DONESON Davida and Shira wish all their friends and relatives a year of health, happiness, peace and prosperity -.....- -. .IMP•- -.NI -• ■ •••- -.I••• We wish our family and friends a year of health and happiness HENRY and SANDY SCHORE ruw5 tIzrizri RABBI AND MRS. EUGENE GREENFIELD. of Ramat Gan, Israel Extend New Year's Greetings and Best Wishes to all their relatives and friends aPPgr Ar 1974-5735 to all our family and friends a year of peace and health GREENBLATT & ASSOC. INC. Elaine, Hal, Herbie and Amy Suite 213-C 24901 Northwestern, Southfield OrappyAregearl 1974 • 5735 To Our Relatives and Friends MR. & MRS. NATHAN 1. GOLDIN Notes on High Holy Days By DAVID SCHWARTZ (Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.) The shofar is the oldest musical instrument. The blowing of the shofar on the High Holy Days of Rosh Ha- shana and Yom Kippur was instituted by the talmudic savant, Abbahu. He was a great believer in the rehabil- itation of the wrong-doer. He thought that a man who turned to goodness from evil stood in a superior relation- ship to God to one who never departed from rectitude. "Where the penitent stands," said Abbahu "even the high priest cannot stand." * * * Reb Itzchak Leib of Ber- ditcheff demanded other re- quirements than a mastery of the instrument from the can- didates for the job of shofar blowing. One time, there were sev- eral candidates for the post. "What do you think of," asked the rabbi, "when you blow the shofar?" No. 1 replied: "When I blow the shofar, my mind seems to travel back to an- cient times and I see Moses leading the Jewish enslaved out of Egypt into freedom." No. 2 said: "When I blow I feel like the high priest in Jerusalem bidding the peo- ple to assemble in prayer." No. 3 said: "When I blow the shofar, I say God, I am a poor man and have three daughters. Help me, dear God, to get them husbands." Rabbi Itzchak Leib award- ed the job to the last. * * One time in Berdichef as the Jews were assembled for Kol Nidre, the Jews looked around but their rab- bi was not there. Where could he be? Contact was made with his home and it was revealed that he had left in time. Fears seized the congregation. Could some- ting have happened to him en route to the synagogue? The members went search- ing but they could not find him. Then they thought pos- sibly he had gone another way—through a non-Jewish neighborhood. Sure enough, they now saw him sitting in a yard in front of a cottage holding a crying peasant child whose mother appar- ently had temporarily for- saken him. Rabbi Itzchak Leib was holding the infant awaiting for the return of the mother. * * * Jews like things whole- sale. Why just have on Rosh Hashana? If a thing is good, have a lot of them. There is a Jewish new year in Nisan as well as the one in Tishri. Also there is a new year for trees. But the Tishri one, usually falling in September is the most important. The Western world has its new year in January. But Jews like to gather around the synagogue and talk and it's too cold and scnowy for that in winter. So Jews se- lected autumn. The leaves are turning a beautiful color and the people rested from vacation are ready to return to sinning and since it is some months before payment of the income tax is due, one still has enough for tickets to the temple. On the High Holy Days, we confess to our sins. In the Al Chet, no less than two sins for every letter of the alphabet are enumerated. Twenty-one letters in the He- brew alphabet. f Forty-four sins for all—no exceptions. We take no Fifth Amend- ment. - * * * The Kotzker rebbe thought sin had its good side. Sin, he said, gave God an opportuni- ty to manifest his nobest as- peat—compassion. What are our sins for? Have we mugged anyone. broken into homes? The "grand Jewry" knows that for the most Dart we are not guilty of such offenses. A sage of the Talmud said we will be Punished in the next world for the legitimate pleasures we have denied ourselves. It reflects on God, if we have not availed our- selvec of all the gifts of his creation. It may seem odd that we should be punished for not going to a picnic. But picnics bring people together, pro- mote brotherhood and sister- hood. What could be more spiritual? Perhaps the man of the Talmud was also saying that our greatest sins are not those of commission but of Omission. We fail to lead the full lives we should. Be sure to go to the picnic. `Know Thyself' is the 1974 Jewish Book Week Slogan NEW YORK — "Know Thyself — Read Jewish Books" is the theme of this year's Jewish Book Month, which the Jewish Book Coun- cil of the National Jewish Welfare Board has an- nounced will be marked from Nov. 8 to Dec. 8 Program materials issued by the JWB Jewish Book Council assist more than 2,000 local groups in plan- ning programs for Jewish Book Month. The Jewish Book Month poster, designed by Sy Warsaw, and the new bookmark have the words "Know Thyself — Read Jew- ish Books" in English, Heb- rew and Yiddish. A new Jewish Book Coun- cil publication is "Jews and Judaism," a selected bib- liography for college stu- dents. The listing includes more than 150 books in 14 categories. The Jewish Book Council co-published the bib- liography with the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundations. Jewish Book Month is ob- served by Jewish centers and YM and YWHA, syna- gogues, Jewish schools and bureaus of Jewish education, local units of national Jew- ish organizations, Jewish military congregations, JWB armed forces and veterans services committees and Jewish and public libraries. According to reports from publishers, more American Jews are buying Jewish books than they have in past years. Some of this increased interest in Jewish literature can be traced to JWB's ef- forts. FALLACY Some think they are resting on their faith just because LOS ANGELES (JTA) — the fall asleep in church. The University of California and the University of Jud- aism will begin a joint pro- Shana Tova gram in undergraduate stud- DAVID & PRISCILLA ies this fall. BACHAIOV Students will be able to CLAIRE, MARK, I earn a bachelors degree in ABBY & SHERRI Judaic studies at the Univer- I sity of Judaism, the West I 16236 Fairfax, Southfield Coast branch of the Jewish Theological Seminary, while JACK & RACHEL BERENT qualifying for a UCLA bach- AND FAMILY elors degree in a different Southfield field, according to Dean John extend best wishes to Burke of UCLA and Rabbi their relatives and friends for a happy, David Gordis, UJ vice presi- healthy New Year dent and director of its col- lege of Jewish studies. Dean Burke said students MRS. ESTHER FINE at the University of Judaism Southfield would be able to study at the UCLA for an academic Wishes all her friends major previously not avail- and relatives a happy, able to them, and UCLA stu- healthty New Year dents interested in Judaic studies will be able to take Dr. and Mrs. a major in that field at UJ. Sidney Friedlaender He said students in the and Family two-degree program must be 12944 Borgman regularly admissable to both Huntington. Woods, Mich. schools and are expected to Wish All Their Friends and Relatives A Happy and complete all UCLA degree Healthy New Year and residency requirements. Joint Degree Plan in Judaic Studies Dr. and Mrs. Alex Friedlaender and Family 8530 Lincoln Drive Huntington vvouas, Micn. 48070 Extend Best Wishes for a Happy and Healthy New Year to All Their Relatives and Friends I— MRS. GEORGE MAX 16607 Ilene, Detroit extends to all her relatives and friends A Happy, • Healthy' New Year Best wishes for a year of health, happiness and peace to all my relatives and friends MRS. PAULINE MAX Southfield MR. AND MRS. SAUL G. LENHOFF Southfield wish all their friends and relatives a year of health, peace and prosperity CHARLES and PEARL KOENIGSBERG Oak Park Extend best wishes to al all their friends and relatives for a very happy, healthy and peaceful New Year MR. and MRS. LOUIS KEPES 14511 Ludlow, Oak Park, Michigan ish Their Family and Friends • A Happy, Healthy and ProsperMis New Year To All Our Friends May happiness &. good health be with you and yours throughout the coming year Mollie & Jack Sayles May the coining year bring the blessings of peace, health and prosperity to all our friends and relatives ANN, DAVID & RHODA SEGAL 22151 Parklawn, Oak Park ROBERT AND BONNIE TORGOW ALISSA, GARY AND JULIE 14551 Winchester Ct., Oak Park extend best wishes to all their relatives and friends for a HAPPY, HEALTHY NEW YEAR JERRY and JUDIE WEISMAN NEAL, ELISA & CARY 29709 Brentwood, Southfield wish all their relatives and friends a healthy and happy New Year MACK PACKING CO. 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