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cammencsng with the issue of July 20. 1951
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Incorporuting The Detroit JewiNh Chronicle

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Editor

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Sabbath Scriptural Selections

This Sabbath. the 27th day of Elul. 5741,
the following scriptural selections will be rend in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion. Deuteronomy 299-30:20.
Prophetical portion. Isaiah 61:10-63:9.

Rosh Hashana Scriptural Selections
Tuesday. Pentateuchal portion. Genesis 21:1-34. Numbers 29:1-6.
Prophetical portion, 1 Samuel 1:1-2:10.
Wednesday, Pentateuchal portion. Genesis 22:1-24. Numbers 29:1-6.
Prophetical portion. Jeremiah 31:2-20.

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Thursday. Fast of Gedaliah
Pentateuchal portion. Exodus 32:11-14.34:1-10.
Prophetical portion (afternoon only). Isaiah 55:6-56:8.

Candle lighting, Friday, September 25, 7:05 p.m.

VOL. LXXX, No. 4

Page Four

Friday, September 25, 1981

FAITH AND DIGNITY

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A new year always commences in faith. This is a principle affecting all
eras in Jewish experience, and 5742 is not an exception. It is part of the
ruling spirit of the Jewish people.
However deep the agonies that preceded the 12 months about to be
welcomed, the new beginning is always welcomed with dignity, with
confidence that the human element in Jewish life is marked by continuity,
that the spark of life is unextinguishable.
This is a time to draw upon the words of the Hasidic sage, the Baal
Shem Tov:

In the struggle with evil, only faith matters . . . When God wants to
punish a man, He deprives him of faith.

Indeed, faith has sustained the Jew. Even in the darkest periods,
during the Holocaust, there was a sustaining faith. In a Cologne, Germany
cellar, where Jews hid from the Nazis, there was this inscription which
greeted the liberators:

I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining. I believe in love, even
whea not feeling it. I believe in God, even when He is silent.

Emphasis on faith acquires renewed status in the stock-taking of the
occurrences of the year that ended. Synagogues were bombed in two Euro-
pean' capitals, and sacred places were desecrated even in the free land of
America. They will be registered as indictments of the inhumanities of the
bigoted and the hateful who have sunk to the medievalism of the worst
among the sick-minded in mankind. Out of these experiences must grow
new faith, a renewed confidence that the evils that were perpetrated are
not the permanent in civilized society.
The dangers that confronted the Jewish people, the threats to the
security of redeemed Zion, still reverberate. They did not and will not
frighten. This is the message of the New Year 5742 to the Jewish people, to
Israel the redeemed nation, to.mankind in whose global society Jewry and
Israel are firmly established entities.
The faith in the Commandments that are Israel's legacies gain
strength in Psalms 119:85-88:

The insolent have dug pits for me,
flaunting Your teaching.
All Your commandments are enduring;
I am persecuted without cause; help me!
Though they almost wiped me off the earth,
I did not abandon Your precepts.
As befits Your steadfast love, preserve me,
so that I may keep the decree You proclaimed.

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Thus the New Year 5742 commences, with confidence that it is rooted
in faith, with the people's dignity that is influenced by inerasable legacies.
They have ins iredlhe civilized in mankind and continue in that spirit. It
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FORTIFYING RAMPARTS

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A generation still shuddering from the horrors of the Holocaust, iv-hose great
privilege is in having witnessed the redemption and Israel's rebirth, has manifold
obligations. The duty to assure the Jewish state's security is paramount: The
retention of Jewish unity as an emphasis to a continuing kinship of the Jewries
throughout the world is understandable.
This unity is obligatory in view of the resurgence of bigotries, the attacks on
Jews in many countries, the urgency of striving for non-Jewish cooperation.for a
reduction of anti-Semitic occurrences, since the anti-Jewish sentiments may not be
totally erasable.
While taking into account the global responsibilities of Diaspora Jewry, there
are the needs at home, the duties to the Jewish institutions wherever Jews may be.
Therefore, the repetitive emphasis on priorities to be given to Jewish educa-
tion, with special concern for the Day School system, whence are expected the most
dedicated -and most 'knowledgeable youth. I
It is the concern for youth identifications that continues.to spur anxiety) The
post-Bar Mitzva agonies must be averted. The experience of youth losing interest
in Jewish life'after'the Bar and Bat Mitzva years is a matter of serious con rn.
Therefore; the...reiterated appeals to the educational and congregatto ad-
ministrators to seek every means of making youth the dominant identifiere 'th
Jewish causes, with Jewish traditions, aiming to give strength to the :r t ies
which continue to enrich the Jew wherever he may be.
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The suggested task is too serious to be taken lightly. The local scene
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with challenges: In the educational sphere thereare many aspects to be
by
-The Midrasha programs for students of all ages, the cultural series con
several synagogues, the discussion groups, all add to the interests to
The communal needs inchide the elderly, the handicapped, the newts
the community; frOm.the USSR, and elsewhere.
A special need ii4;posed - by the retarded. An excellent step has been.
provide housinifor a,number of senior retarded. Four such homes
be
don, a fifth and a sixth are in the planning stages. The community has c8

proud of this effort, and its aims must receive undiminished encouragein
support. The surface was only scratched with these suggested needis. jre t e
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many more duties..They call for unified effort and for concern thfulfillifie'
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BASTION

The rampa•rtSTOrtifying the'Jewries of the world would have the
tissue paper had if not been roi the spiritual and cultural fortifica
The conceri*I'vtrill'fmcl comfort in the programmatic evidences wi
new year is being gFeeted in this community.
Nearly, verysyriagogue has an addendum to the schools for the,x0
are increased interests in adult education and in the cultural sessions
the oncoming months. The many-lecture series will be
here'of accre-ditedechblars -jokM will diNttgig the,natjOr i
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confronted. The respotiSe

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