12 Friday, October 8, 1982
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
The Concept of the Holy Land in the Bible
Judea and Samaria versus the West Bank
JOSHUA 24:1: Joshua assembled all the tribes of Is-
rael at Shechem. He summoned Israel's elders and com-
manders, magistrates and officers, and they presented
themselves (or: took up position) before God . . . 13: I have
given you a land for which you did not labor, and towns
which you did not build, and you have settled in them; you
are enjoying vineyards and olive groves which you did not
plant.
14: Now, therefore, revere the Lord and serve Him with
undivided loyalty . . . 16: And the people responded, declar-
ing: Far be it from us to forsake the Lord and serve other
gods! 17: For it was the Lord our God who brought us and
I our ancestors up from the land of Egypt . . . 18: and .. .
drove out before us all the peoples . . . that inhabited the
country .. .
JEREMIAH 3:19-20: I have resolved to adopt you as
My child and I gave you a desirable land — the fairest-
heritage of all the nations; and I thought that you would
surely call Me "Father" and never cease to be loyal to Me.
Instead, you have broken faith with Me . . . 18: In those
dayS, the House of Judah shall go with the House of Israel;
they shall come together from the land of the north to the
land I gave your fathers as a possession.
AMOS 2:10: I, I brought you up from the land of Egypt,
And led you through the wilderness 40 years, To possess the
land of the Amorite! 11: . . . Is that not so, 0 people of Israel?
12: But you . . . —says the Lord.
HOSEA 9:1-5: Rejoice not, 0 Israel, as other peoples
exult; For you have strayed away from your God . . . You
shall not be able to remain in the land of the Lord. But
Ephraim shall go back to Egypt and shall (have to) eat
unclean food in Assyria. It shall be for them like the food of
mourners, all who partake of which are defiled.
They will offer no libations of wine to the Lord, and no
sacrifices of theirs will be pleasing (be acceptable) to Him;
But their food shall, be only for their hunger; It shall not
come into the House of the Lord (as sacrifice). What will you
then do about feast days, about the festivals of the Lord?
AMOS 5:1-3: Hear this word which I intone as a dirge
over you, 0 House of Israel: Fallen, not to rise again, is
. maiden Israel; Abandoned on her soil with none to lift her
up. For thus said the Lord God about the House of Israel:
The town that marches out a thousand strong shall have a
c= hundred left, and the one that marches out a hundred
strong shall have but ten left.
HOSEA 11:8-11: How can I give you up, 0 Ephraim?
How surrender you, 0 Israel? . . . I h;ve had a change of
heart, all My tenderness is stirred. I will not act on My
wrath, will not turn to destroy Ephraim . . . The Lord will
roar like a lion, and they shall march behind Him; When He
roars, His children shall come fluttering out of the west.
They shall flutter from Egypt like sparrows, from the land
of Assyria like doves; And I will settle them again in their
homes — declares the Lord.
AMOS 9:11-15: In that day, I will set up again the
fallen booth of David: I will mend its breaches and set up its
ruins anew. I will build it firm as in the days of old .. .
—Declares the Lord who will bring this to pass . . . I will
restore My people Israel: They shall rebuild ruined cities
and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink
r= their wine. They shall till gardens and eat their fruits. I will
plant them upon their soil, nevermore to be uprooted from
the soil I have given them. — said the Lord your God.
ZECHARIAH 2:14-16: Shout for joy, Fair Zion! For lo,
I come; and I will dwell in your midst — declares the Lord
. . . The Lord will acquire Judah as His portion on holy
ground, and He will choose Jerusalem once more.
EZRA 1:2-3: Thus said King Cyrus of Persia: The
Lord, the God of Heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of
the earth; and He has charged me to build Him a House at
Jerusalem in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all
His people — may his God be with him — let him go up to
Jerusalem in Judah and (re)build the House of the Lord, the
God of Israel .. .
EZRA 6:3-5: In the first year of King Cyrus: _King
Cyrus issued the decree: As for the House of God in
Jerusalem, let the House be built . . . and let the expenses
be paid out of the king's palace. Also, let the gold and silver
vessels of the House of God, which Nebuchadnezzar has
taken out of the Temple . . . be restored . . . to the Temple.
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Judea, Samaria Scripturally
Defined as Lecture Topic at
Shaarey Zedek by Dr. Orlinsky
For Israel Prime Minister Menahem Begin, his Likud
party and many in Orthodox Jewish ranks, West Bank
as utilized by Arabs and the world press is a misnomer.
It is Judea and Samaria as the area is designated in the
Bible as part of Eretz Yisrael. In his address at Cong.
Shaarey Zedek 8 p.m. Tuesday, the eminent Bible
authority Dr. Harry M. Orlinsky will deal with the sub-
ject of "The Concept of the
Holy Land in the Bible:
Judea and Samaria versus
West Bank."
As a guide to his audi-
ence, and as an inspiration
for proper evaluation of the
subject, Prof. Orlinsky has
prepared an outline to be
distributed to the audience,
the accompanying being ex-
cerpts from his textual
guidelines.
Prof. Orlinsky's lecture'
will commence the Shaarey
DR. ORLINSKY
Zedek cultural series, to
which the public is invited, for the year 5743. This lec-
ture is sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Field.
Dr. Orlinsky initiated the New Jewish Version of the
Bible. His "Notes on the New Translation of the Torah"
was published by the Jewish Publication Society in
1970. He was the first Jewish scholar invited to take
part in an authorized Christian translation of the Bible
and was the sole Jewish member of the 22-member
committee which produced, in 1952, the Revised
Standard Version of the Old Testament. He is currently
working on the new edition of this official Protestant
Bible.
GENESIS 12: The Lord said to Abram, "Go forth from
your native land and from your father's house to the land
that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, And I
will bless you; I will make your name great, And you shall
be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you And curse him
that curses you; And all the families of the earth Shall bless
themselves by you." Abraham went forth as the Lord had
commanded him, and Lot went with him. Abram was
seventy-five years old when he left Haran. Abram took his
wife Sarai and his brother's son Lot, and all the wealth that
they had amassed, and the persons that they had acquired
in Haran; and they set out for the land of Canaan. When
they arrived in the land of Canaan, Abram passed through
the land as far as the site of Shechem, at the terebinth of
Moreh. The Canaanites were then in the land.
The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this
land to your offspring." And he built an altar there to the
Lord who had appeared to hirti. From there he moved on to
the hill country .. .
GENESIS 26: There was a famine in the land — aside
from the previous famine that had occured in the days of
Abraham — and Isaac went to Abimelecl), king of the
Philistines, in Gerar. The Lord had appeared to him and
said, "Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land which I
point out to you. Reside in this land, and I will be with you
and bless you; I will give all these lands to you and to your
offspring, fulfilling the oath that I swore to your father
Abraham.
"I will make your descendants as numerous as the
stars of heaven, and give to your descendants all these
lands, so that all the nations of the earth shall bless them-
selves by your offspring — inasmuch as Abraham obeyed
Me and kept My charge: My commandments, My laws, and
My teachings."
GENESIS 49:28-33: All these were the tribes of Israel,
twelve in number, and this is what their father said to them
as he bade them farewell, addressing to each a parting word
appropriate to him.
Then he instructed them, saying to them, "I am about
to be gathered to my kin. Bury me with my fathers in the
cave which is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, the cave
which is in the field of Machpelah, facing Mamre, in the
land of Canaan, the field that Abraham bought from Ep-
hron the Hittite for a burial site — there Abraham and his
wife Sarah were buried; there Isaac and his wife Rebekah
were buried; and there I buried Leah — the field and the
cave in it, bought from the Hittites." When Jacob finished
his instructions to his sons, he drew his feet into the bed
and, breathing his last, he was gathered to his people.
GENESIS 50:1-6: Joseph flung himself upon his
father's face and wept over him and kissed him. Then
Joseph ordered the physicians in his service to embalm his
father, and the physicians embalmed Israel. It required 40
days, for such is the full period of embalming. The Egyp-
tians bewailed him 70 days; and when the wailing period
was over, Joseph spoke to Pharaoh's court, saying, "Do me
this favor, and lay this appeal before Pharaoh: 'My father
made me Swear, saying, "I am about to die. Be sure to bury
me in the grave which I made ready for myself in the land of
Canaan." Now, therefore, let me go up and bury my father;
then I shall return.' " And Pharaoh said, "Go up and bury
your father, as he made you promise on oath."
EXODUS 3:7-8: And the Lord continued, "I have
marked well the plight of My people in Egypt and have
heeded their outcry because of their taskmasters; yes, I am
mindful of their sufferings. I have come down to rescue
them from the Egyptians and to bring them out of that land
to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and
honey, the home of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amo-
rites, the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.
EXODUS 6:2-9: God spoke to Moses and said to him, "I
am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as El
Shaddai, but I did not make Myself known to them by My
name . . . I also established My covenant with them, to give
them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as
sojourners. I have now heard the moaning of the Israelites
because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I
have remembered My covenant.
"Say, therefore, to the Israelite people: I am the Lord. I
will free you from the burdens of the Egyptians and deliver
you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an out-
stretched arm and through extraordinary chastisements.
And I will take you to be My people, and I will be your God.
And you shall know that I, the Lord, am your God who freed
you from the labors of the Egyptians. I will bring you into
the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, and I will give it to you for a possession, I the Lord."
But when Moses told this to the Israelites, they would not
listen to Moses, their spirits crushed by cruel bondage.
EXODUS 35:9-15: God appeared again to Jacob on his
arrival from Paddan-aram, and He blessed him. God said to
him, "You whose name is Jacob, You shall be called Jacob
no more, But Israel shall be your name." Thus He named
him Israel: And God said to him, "I am El. Shaddai. Be
fertile and increase; A nation, yea an assembly of nation4
Shall descend from you. Kings shall issue from your loins.
The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I give to you;
And to your offspring to come will I give the land."
God parted from him at the spot where He had spoken
to him; and Jacob set up a pillar at the site where He had
spoken to him, a pillar of stone, and he offered a libatiori on
it and poured oil upon it. Jacob gave the site, where God had
spoken to him, the name of Bethel.
Israeli Firm Promotes Waste Paper Re-Cycling
From Israel Scene
"Israel's most abundant
natural resources are the
sun, the minerals in the
Dead Sea — and was-
tepaper," says Uri Sapir,,
general-manager of Amnir
Paper Processing, Ltd.
Amnir was established in
1969. Today, with its head-
quarters in Hadera, it has
200 employees, a fleet of 24
trucks and a network of
wastepaper collection
throughout the country.
"Although we are a sub-
sidiary of American Israeli
Paper Mills, we think of
ourselves as a national
company," says Sapir,
stressing the considerable
savings in foreign currency
expenditure that processing
wastepaper permits: "The
only alternative is to keep
on importing costly pulp
from abroad."
Amnir has invested both
money and manpower in
promoting and advertising
to educate the private, pub-
lic and industrial sectors in
the importance of cooperat-
ing over the collection and
sorting of waste. It has set
up four regional collection
centers, each equipped to
sort, process and transport
the wastepaper to its final
destination — the Hadera
mill. "Our biggest problem
is still overcoming public
indifference," admits Sapir.
In Tel Aviv, Amnir has
recently embarked on a new
program to collect paper
once a month from apart-
ment buildings, where resi-
dents will amass their was-
tepaper for pick-up on an
appointed day.
"Many municipalities
abroad force hotels, plants
and institutions to recycle
paper," says Sapir. "We, '
often fight an uphill battle
for simple cooperation."
He says the company has
often had to send men to city
dumps to pick out much-
needed cardboard which the
city would otherwise simply
burn.
Factories and institutions
which do cooperate with
Amnir receive commercial
rates for their wastepaper.
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