• 28 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 24, 1919 GOT A PROBLEM/. •AVE'S Cheder Institute Graduates Honored for Talmud Study Graduates of the Cheder Institute will be honored at a reception 8 p.m. Wednes- day in the Lazaroff Hall at Cong. Mishkan Israel Nusach H'Ari. The students, Gedaliah PLUMBING A flush beats a full house 967-3343 no sabbath calls GROUP HOSPITALIZATION PRE-PAID LEGAL SERVICE NOW AVAILABLE TO WORKMEN'S CIRCLE MEMBERS Get complete health care through Michigan HMO. No de- ductibles, co-payments or claim forms: Prescriptions, office visits, glasses included in coverage. Staffed by more than 600 physicians in more than 40 health care centers. Workmen's Circle Members Also Get: Open Enrollment To Sept. 15 Benefits Services Life Insurance Final Expense Policy Cemetery Plots .Excess Major Medical Hospital Indemnity Retirement Annuities Credit Union Discount Buying Service Sunday School Nursery School Group Travel - Optical Savings Join the Workmen's Circle family for cultural and educational programs, social action and Yiddishkeit and to be eligible for the above benefits. for information call 545-0985 or write THE WORKMEN'S CIRCLE 26341 Coolidge, Oak Park, Mich. 48237 Name Age Address Phone Shemtov, David S. Polter, Moishe Silver and Dovid A. Polter, collectively learned 750 pages of talmudic law by heart in a period of about one month. The boys are all 14 years old. For mastering more than 270 pages of law and discussion, Gedaliah Shemtov will receive a collection of talmudic works. The reception also will be occasion to welcome to the community the new princi- pal of the institute, Rabbi Yitzchok Wolf, and the new rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Nachman Yossaif Twersky. Rabbi Elimelech Silber- berg, spiritual leader of Cong. Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield, is the principal of the Cheder Institute. Tel Aviv Bombs Injure 4 Persons TEL AVIV (JTA) — Four persons were injured when two bombs exploded Tues- day night at the Tel Aviv exhibition grounds. A child and two women were in- jured when the first bomb went off at 6 p.m. at the amusement park area. An hour later another bomb exploded at a youth town, injuring a youth. The youth town, which is run by a youth council dur- ing the summer, provides a variety of cultural and entertainment events throughout the day. Thousands of people were visiting the exhibition grounds when the explo- sions occurred. TEMPLE EMANU-EL • Metropolitan Detroit's First Suburban Synagogue, invites you to consider membership in our area's only medium sized liberal congregation, which offers: A FINE WEEKEND RELIGIOUS SCHOOL (pre-kindergarten through 12th grade); AN INDEPENDENT AND CREATIVE HEBREW SCHOOL; A FULL PROGRAM OF CULTURAL ACTIVITIES FOR ADULTS (including the Sunday Speakers' Series: Anniversary Scholar In Residence; Music At Midnight Concert Series; and Jewish Studies). Those interested in affiliation, please join us for a prospective members' Sabbath service Aug. 24th, 7:30 For Further Information Call: TEMPLE EMANU-EL 961-4020 14450 West Ten Mile Rd. Rabbi Mon Rosenbaum Rabbi Lane Steinger . Lyle Parr, President Cantor Norman Rose Ex-Detroiter Analyzes Christian's Commentary on Book of Daniel By ALLEN A. WARSEN "Of the (Church) fathers acquainted with Hebrew, easily the most important is Jerome, since he made the greatest efforts — and with a measure of success un- matched by any other Church father — to master Hebrew and thus was able to approach the Jewish tra- dition directly?' Louis Prof. Thus, Feldman wrote in the "Preface" to Jay Braver- man's monograph `:Jerome's Commentary on Daniel: a Study of Com- parative Jewish and Chris- tian Interpretations of the Hebrew Bible," published by the Catholic Biblical Association of America. Jerome, the famed Church father and trans- lator of the Hebrew Bible into Latin, by mastering Latin, Greek, Syriac and Hebrew, "The Jewish Encyclopedia" states, "united in his person the culture of the East and of the West." In addition to the Vul- gate (Jerome's Latin translation of the He- brew Bible), he authored biblical commentaries. Jerome's interpretation of Daniel 1:3, especially of the phrase "rav sorisov" that corresponds to that of the rabbinic tradition is a good example. It reads in part: "From this passage (1:3) the He- brews think that Daniel, Hananiah, Michael, and Azariah were eunuchs, thus fulfilling that prophecy which is spo- ken by the prophet Isaiah to Hezekiah." However, according to Onkelos (translator of the Pentateuch into Aramaic) and other commentators, the term "soris" means ser- vant or official, not eunuch. Neither does Josephus ("Antiquities of the Jews" 10:186-187) include Daniel and his companions among the eunuchs of the royal court. Jerome's commentary on Daniel 6:5 is not found in rabbinic literature. The bi- blical verse reads in part: "Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom." Jerome comments: "And in this passage the Hebrews suspect some such (deduc- tion) as this: the 'side of the king' is the queen or his con- cubines and the other wives who slept at his side . . . This (interpretation) was made Yavneh Celebrate 20th Anniversary NEW YORK — Yavneh, the National Religious Jewish Students Associa- tion, will celebrate its 20th anniversary over Labor Day weekend as the oldest inde- pendent Orthodox student organization. Yavneh will hold its national convention at Camp Moshava, Indian Orchard, Pa. by those (Jews) who make a practice of weaving long tales on the pretext of a single word." Jerome misinterpreted the phrase "touching (re- garding) the kingdom." He translated it 'side of the king.' Jewish "The Encyclopedia" char- acterizes Jerome as fol- lows: "Jerome was no friend to the Jews, al- though he owed them much; he often rebukes them for their errors; re- proaches them for being stiffnecked and inimical to the Christians; con- troverts their views in the strongest terms; curses and reviles them; takes pleasure in their misfor- tune; and even uses against them both the books that he has cun- ningly obtained from them and the knowledge he has derived. there- from. Thus, the Jews and Christians agree that he is eminent only for his scholarship, and not for his character." Braverman's Dr. "Jerome's Commentary on Daniel" fills a gap in the lit- erature on the Aggada and is a major contribution to Jewish scholarship. Dr. Braverman, presently the educational director of Montreal's United Talmud Torahs, served as principal of the high school and taught at the Midrasha of the Detroit United Hebrew Schools from September 1966 to January 1969. Right In Your Own Driveway! 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