40 Friday, February 18, 1977

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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Readers Forum

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writer's name will be withheld from publication upon request.
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turned unless a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed.

`Ancient Rabbis Did Amend
Various Laws of the Torah'

Editor, The Jewish News:
I 'understand Rabbi
Silberberg's dismay- at
the late .Prof. Zeitli n's
contention that "the
sages (of the Second
Jewish Commonwealth)
did not hesitate to inter-
pret and amend the pen-
tateuchal laws"
(Reader's Forum 2-11). -
Such a statement is as-
suredly a radical one. But
even a cursory . examina-
tion of the contemporary
literature (the Mishna)
reveals that the rabbis
did change the prescrip-
tions of divine writ.
The Torah legislates
(Num. 5:11-31) that a sus-
pected adulteress was to
be given the "bitter wat-
ers" to discern her guilt
or lack of it. "When adul-
terersbecame many,"
however, the rabbis
abolished this rite (Mis-
hna Sota 9:9).
According
•
to
Deuteronomy
21:1-9,

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Volume Honors
Dropsie's Katsh

PHILADELPHIA —
'"Halutz V'Maas,'.' an il-
lustrated jubilee volume
in honor of Dr. Abraham
I. KatsFi, was edited by
Dr. Yaacov. Ben-Joseph
and published in Israel by
the Avuka Press of Tel
Aviv. Dr. Ben-Joseph was
a student of Dr. Katsh at
New York University,
where he was the director
of Judaica studies before
coming to The Dropsie
University. •
Dr. Katsh is now presi-
dent emeritus and Dis-
tinguished Research Pro-
fessor at Dropsie.
"Halutz V'Maas,"
which literally means
"Pioneer and Doer," is a
collection of studies, both
in Hebrew and English.
The Hebrew articles were
written by prominent Is-
raeli scholars and
educators. The English
section of the volume is a
collection of eight
selected articles written
by Dr. Katsh in recent
years. The volume also
includes a summary of all
Dr. Katsh's published
books.
Dr. Ben-Joseph is as-
sociated with the educa-
tion Department in Tel
Aviv and is principal of a
high school there.

Young Volunteers
Leave for Israel

NEW YORK — Forty-
five young people have
left the U.S. for Israel to
study Hebrew and work
for half a year as-volun-
teers in kibutzim and de-
Velopment towns.
The group, which left
Wednesday consists of
volunteers on Project
Etgar and Project De-
velopment Town, two
programs in Israel spon-
sored by the American
Zionist-Youth Founda-
tion.

when a body was found,
and the murderer un-
known, the elders of the
nearest town took a
heifer and killed it as an
atonement. "When mur-
derers became m‘any, -
however, this, too, was
discontinued (Mishna
Sota). The examples could
be multiplied.
-Clearly,
then,, the
.halakhic authorities (the
rabbis) of that time ,not
only possessed the power
to set aside a behest of the
Torah; indeed, ' the
employed it.
The issue today is
whether, should it be re-
quisite, there is a body of
sufficient stature and au-
thority to effect such
change. That is another
question. But to assert, in
Rabbi Silberberg's words,
that "these G-d given
laws, according to Torah
tradition .. : havp never
been amended" is to deny
both history and the all-
embracing wisdom Wand
sensitivity of the rabbis
to keep Jewish law and
life vibrant and operative
in the midst of the world
around them.

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Judaica Scholar
at Methodist U.

DALLAS (JTA) — Prof.
Ellis Rivkin, Adolph S.
Ochs Professor of Jewish
History at Hebrew Union
College, has been named
to a lectureship for the
1977 spring semester at
Southern Methodist Uni-
.yersity•s school of
humanities and sciences.

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Secondary School Prog-
ram in Kibutz Kfar Blum,
Israel, will speak 8 p.m.
Feb. 27 at the Labor
Zionist Institute. The
public is invited.
Rinion will speak to
students at the high
schools of the United
Hebrew Schools, Cong.
Shaarey Zedek and the
Hillel Day School. Rimon
will discuss the program
with the Jewish
Educators Council on
Feb. 28.
The American School at
Kfar Blum allows Ameri-
can -students in their 10th
grade of high school, to
pursue a fully accredited
course of study for one
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their studies, the par-
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