30 Friday, July 4, 1975
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
The Concept of Prayer
The prayer can be defined
as the offering of petition,
confession, adoration or
thanks to God. It was con-
ceived as a spiritual bridge
between man and God. Its
concept is based on the con-
viction that God exists,
hears, and answers — in
other words that He is a
personal deity.
Though prayer has an in-
tellectual base, it is essen-
tially emotional in charac-
ter, the Encyclopedia
Judaica says. There were
and are prayers of so many
different types that the rab-
bis already noted that
"prayer is called by 10 dif-
ferent expressions."
Originally prayer was
undoubtedly spontaneous
and personal; but the need
to organize religion gave rise
to liturgical patterns and
musical renderings. Prayer
formulas, however, are
found in the Pentateuch.
The Psalms provide am-
pies of fuller liturgical de-
velopments, including the
choral and instrumental
features. The response
"Amen" occurs in Numbers
5:22, Psalms 41:14, etc. Thus
customs of seemingly mod-
ern innovation go back to
biblical times, according to
Encyclopedia Judaica.
are to be recited three
times a day: morning aft-
ernoon and night. In addi-
tion to the statutory pray-
ers and private prayers of
various kinds, public
prayers were offered in
times of distress; prayers
for rain for instance in
times of drought.
In Hasidism, prayer is a
mystical encounter with the
Divine, the heart leaping in
ecstasy to its Source. Prayer
is frequently seen as man's
most important religious
activity. "For although the
forms of the prayer and the
duty of praying three times
a day are rabbinic, the idea
of prayer is the foundation
of the whole Torah," wrote
Rabbi Shneur Zalman of
Lyady, the founder of the
intellectual Chabad sect in
Hasidism.
In the 20th Century, Jew-
ish thinkers began to con-
sider the basic philosophical
problems surrounding
prayer. Petitionary prayer
was felt to be especially dif-
ficult in the light of scien-
tific views regarding cause
and effect. A definite move
away from the idea of
prayer as a means of influ-
encing God and toward its
function as a way to affect
man's attitudes can be ob-
The obligation of offer- sen-ed.
ing up prayers though sup-
"Self-expression before
ported by a'biblical verse God in prayer has thus a
is considered to be rab- double effect; it strengthens
binic not biblical. Prayers faith in God's love and kind-
ness, as well as in His all-
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Rabin, Allon Host Meeting
of Jews, Arabs in Israel
Weizmann Institute Elects
Prof. Sela as Its President
REHOVOT — Prof. Mi-
chael Sela, head of the
chemical immunology de-
partment of the Weizmann
Institute of Science, was
recently elected by the
board of governors to be the
institute's new president.
President-elect Sela, 51,
has been a scientist at the
institute since 1950, and
was vice president in
1970-71. He occupies the W.
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Arabs are shown performing a traditional dance
during the meeting of Jews and Arabs at the home of
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon by the Sea of Galilee.
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JERUSALEM — Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin and
Foreign Minister Yigal Al-
Ion greeted Arabs at the tra-
ditional gathering of Jews
and Arabs at Allon's home,
Kibutz Ginossar by the Sea
4 Galilee.
According to the Israel
Digest, the meeting was at-
tended by a record number
of Arab, Druze and Circas-
sian notables from Israel
and the administered areas,
as well as ambassadors, re-
ligious leaders and Jewish
mayors and leaders from
Galilee.
Rabin pledged to do more
for the fuller integration of
Arabs, Druze and Circas-
sians in Israeli life.
Allon said that while Is-
rael would continue to bols-
ter its strength, it would
concentrate on its main
goal, peace.
Intoxication Prohibited
Some people claim that a
descendant of the priestly
family (i.e., a Kohen) is not
allowed to become intoxi-
cated.
This is symbolic of our
hope that the Messiah can
come any day and reinsti-
tute the priestly functions
in a new temple.
The Bible (Leviticus
10:9) does contain a prohi-
bition for the priest in the
sanctuary to be intoxi-
cated. Some claim this is
'so that he would have the
proper state of mind in
performing his duties in
the sanctuary. Others
claim that he would be
subject to ridicule and
thus lower the dignity of
the sanctuary and the
priestly functions.
There are those who claim
that the fruit which Adam
consumed against the
wishes of the Almighty in
the Garden of Eden was the
fruit of the vine which made
him intoxicated and thus
brought death into the
world. The priest, who was
a symbol of life, was forbid-
Knesset Queries
Eban's Expenses
TEL AVIV — Several
Knesset members are ques-
tioning why Abba Eban,
while in New York recently
on behalf of the foreign
ministry, chose to stay at
the exclusive Hotel Pierre
rather than at a more mod-
est hotel.
In a letter to Foreign Min-
ister Yigal Allon, Likud MK
Ehud Olmert asks why the
ministry should have to
cover a $4,155 hotel bill re-
portedly submitted by Eban
for a .two-week stay at the
Pierre. Olmert urged Allon
to demand that Eban reim-
burse the ministry.
den to come into the sanctu-
ary in a state of intoxication
lest, instead of bringing life
to humanity, he would
cause tragedy because of his
drunken state.
A state of intoxication
would make it probable for
the priest to commit errors
in his duties and certain er-
rors could make a sacrifice
invalid. Some also claim
that this shows that service
to the Almighty is a rational
act and not a blind drunken
orgy such as pagan worship-
pers performed i,n olden
times.
Garfield Weston Chair of
Immunology at the insti-
tute-.
Prof. Sela was recently
elected chairman of the
European Molecular Biol-
'gy Organization and vice
president of the Interna-
tional Union of Immunol-
ogy.
Eternal Remnant
The history of the Jews is
unlike that of any other peo-
ple. It is distilled anguish. It
is crystallized grief. It is the
dirge of a people cut away
from the land they love, yet
always faithful to it. It
the story of an exiled bane,
pilgrims with Zion etched
on its heart. The survival of
the Jews is a major miracle
of history. A people con-
demned to death and annih-
ilation, to fire and torture—
drowned in all the rivers of
Europe ; - besieged in all its
cities, yet always a remnant
managing to survive—the
Eternal Remnant of Israel.
—Anita Libman Lebeson
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