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So, for example, in Rishon in the 1880s Naftali Herz Imber composed the na- tional anthem, Hatikva. There too, the national flag was planned and impro- vised from his talit by Israel Belkind, the first of the BILU pioneers. With the help of those symbols, history was made when the settlers of Rishon, founded in 1882, used them to welcome the founder of the Zionist Movement, Dr. Theodore Herzl, on his first visit to the country in 1898. The same flag was pre- sented in 1897 to the first Zionist Congress at Basle by Max Nordau, where it was officially declared as the na- tional flag. It was in Rishon LeZion where the first Hebrew- speaking families lived, the very first one being that of Eliezer Ben- Yehuda, the father of the modern Hebrew lan- guage, who stubbornly forbade the speaking of a foreign language in his home. His first-born son, Itamar Ben-Yehuda, be- came the first Hebrew- speaking child in the modern world. Among other firsts in Rishon were the inauguration, in 1886, of the first Hebrew school; in 1887 of the first musical band, named, grandly, The Rishon LeZ- ion Orchestra, which was used far and wide by the Jewish settlers on all happy occasions, and in 1896 of the first Hebrew kindergarten. There was always Jewish settlement in the Promised Land, ever since the de- struction of the Temple. Jerusalem, the Holy City, was always populated by Jews, and so were other parts of the country. How- ever, those who lived here, as well as those who came uninterruptedly ,during the past centuries, had two main purposes in mind: to pray and to die here. • • • plaza suite • • HOLIDAY SPECIALS HORNSEA DINNERWARE by Kosta Boda NORITAKI CHINA Franklin Shopping Plaza Northwestern at 12 Mile, Southfield Phone 357-1121 Visa, Mastercharge /o OFF 0 The first settlers who set- tled in Rishon LeZion were different from their forefathers. 'They came not to die but to live in the Promised Land, in spite of the enormous difficulties and hardships they encountered, including the lack of food and the most es- sential factor, water. For a long period they had to buy their water at a high price from Jaffa, and carry it back home on the danger- ous roads, sometimes at the risk of their lives. When , they finally found the first Rishon LeZion is shown during the first decade of well, it was a revelation of the 20th Century. such great significance to them that it was decided to / ic inscribe the event in their emblem, and there it is ever / /* since, the proud symbol of Rishon LeZion: the drawing of a well and the words ac- companying it, "We have found water!" Those settlers of the First Aliya who set the foundation of Rishon LeZion in 1882, against all odds (about 20 first families as wed as the 12 young BILU followers 4.41araitigew4v who joined them a little Apartment buildings in modern Rishon LeZion. later) paved the way through their courage for try and get some financial pretty sister and came on the generations to come help to put them back on Aliya. It was he who within the Zionist Move- their feet, after having in- started most of the edu- ment. They are for Israel vested so badly in the land cational programs, who what the Mayflower was they bought; Yosef Fein- cared for the spirit of the berg succeeded in enlisting settlers, and who for America. Eitan Belkind, 80, is the the help of Baron Edmond founded the successful nephew of Israel Belkind de Rothschild, who became movement to save or- who coined the slogan of the their patron, and through phans of slaughtered BILU movement, "Bney them he helped the whole of Jews from Europe. In 1905, after the pog- Yaacov Lehu Venelha" (0 Jewish Palestine. The last was Eitan Bal- roms in Kishinev he House of Jacob, come ye and kind's uncle, Israel Belkind, brought back with him a let us go -- Isaiah 2:5). In his opinion there were a medical student at Har- whole group of children, four settlers "of whom you kov, Russia. Some of the aged 4-13. In 1925, after the can say: but for them, young students arrived at pogroms in Poland, he did it maybe there would not be the conclusion that they had again, bringing back all the Rishon, and who knows how to go back to their origins, orphans he could find. things would have looked and Israel Belkind became Eventually, after having their leader. He said they them at his own school for now in Israel." The first one was Zvi had to give an example to some time, he helped estab- Hacohen Levontin, who the others, by going to lish the Aliyat Hanoar contributed half the cost of Palestine themselves, not (Youth Aliya), which started with those orphans, the land they bought, the preaching to others. He packed his things, and became one of the most other half being paid by all the others; an idealist, and a took along his younger important institutions in man of means, his financial brother Shimshon the Zionist Movement and help was vital for the new- (Eitan's father) and his the state of Israel. born colony, especially after they realized that the land they had bought so dearly was worth almost nothing, parched, unsuitable for ag- and the number 10 is By RABBI SAMUEL FOX riculture, sandy and full of (Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.) associated with the bread swamps. It is customary to take the in a number of ways. There are 10 command- The second one was - bread with both hands when Yehuda Leib Hankin, pronouncing the traditional ments to be observed from who showed his strength blessing over the bread (i.e. the time the seed of grain is at the time of crises. Frus- Ha motzi). A number of rea- planted until it becomes trated by the lack of sons are offered for this bread: For a second theme, ,/ there are 10 stages of action water, the sicknesses practice. First, any object over from the time of plowing of • which took their terrible _toll, and the useless land which a benediction is pro- the soil until the product which they worked so nounced is taken in hand to takes the form of baked arduously but to no avail, symbolize physically that bread. Third, the benediction there came a day when this is the object over which the settlers wanted to we offer the blessing, e.g., pronounced over the bread give up and leave. The the talit (prayer shawl), (i.e., Ha motzi) has 10 words very same day Y.L. Han- tefilin, moror (bitter herbs in it. Fourth, the verse in the Psalms 145:15). kin started building his on Passover) and lulay. Generally speaking, it is house and said, "You In some cases, when an may all go. I shall never act follows the benediction, said to mean that the classic commandments have not place." the object involved in the this leave Ashamed, the others fol- act is held in hand so that been violated in obtaining lowed suit, starting the act and the benediction the bread, e.g. one did not houses of their own, in- are as close together in time steal it, one did not kill to get it, one did not covet its stead of living in tents as as possible. There are some possession, etc. they had been doing. The knife is taken away The third was Yosef authorities who claim Feinberg, an aristocratic that the bread is held in from the table before the and intellectual youth, hand because the two Grace after meals is re- they sent fo'ThirOpe to hands have 10 fingers cited. ' ' " y Brahot Over Bread Involve Link to Ten Commandments whom (