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Jews Still Burdened
With 'Original' Sin
BY RABBI JAMES I. GORDON
Special to The Jewish News
"In the day I will visit, I will
Commandments. In their destitu-
visit their sin upon them . . . No
tion, the Israelites were grappling
punishment descends upon Israel
for a source of security in this crit-
which does not contain a fragment
ical situation. Did they turn to
from the punishment of the sin of God, the only true source of
the golden calf." (Exodus 32:33
strength? No — they regressed to
Viz Rashi)
Egyptian sources, putting their
The national apostacy of the trust in the golden calf.
"golden calf" appears to have
This is idolatry . the transfer-
branded our collective soul; it
ence of Bitachon (faith) to any
seems to have left behind an ir-
force other than God. Tits under-
removable stain upon us, a "fall of current of "idolatry" was present
a nation" which has permanently
in every national calamity which
condemned us to suffer the conse-
subsequently befell the people.
quences of this rebellion.
• In our generation we again dis-
It is incongrous with the major play this weakness. We seem in-
trends of our ideology and our
fundamental appraisal of the re-
lationship between man and God
to assume literally that our na-
tion is helplessly burdened from
generation to generation with the
guilt of this "original" national
sin. The strains and stresses of Is-
rael throughout its history in its
attempt to uphold and occasion-
ally to cast aside its spiritual heri-
capable of this unpolluted and
tage surely were formidable
unqualified faith. We bow to a
enough without introducing a
host of idols: wealth, position,
skeleton from the closet; without
prestige, connections, power, UN
evoking the assistance of a ghost
resolutions, temporary friend-
from its earliest history. This sa-
ships of this or the other nation.
pient comment of our sages seems
Consequently, we find ourselves
rather to be a profound generali-
wavering in times of crisis. If we
zation and formulation of Israel's
wish to regain the colossal
national sins.
spiritual fortitude which we ob-
A basic quest of human beings
serve in most of our past genera-
is that for security. The newborn
tions, we must regain this abso-
infant upon its arrival into a cold
lute, all engulfing faith . . . God is
and overpowering environment
the only source of security.
finds it in the loving arms of his
mother. As the child grows and
develops his personality is molded
in the_ medium of "sense of secu-
rity" his parents provide for him.
Shomrey Emunah
Ki Tisah:
Exodus
30:11-34:35.1 Kings
18:1-39.
Man must ever have this sense
of security in order to function ef-
fectively and successfully and be a
positive factor in this society.
Long after he has stepped forth
from his father's house, physically
and emotionally, he must still
possess some ultimate haven from
the exacting challenges of life; a
shoulder to cry on, a power to ap-
peal to. It is the task, therefore, of
devoted parents to provide not
only the immediate needs of secu-
rity but also to establish and in-
culcate in the value system of
their children a successor to
themselves; someone or some-
thing that will take over when
they no longer furnish this vital
need.
In Judaism, it is God. In Egypt
it was the calf and the Nile, the
two symbols of Egypt's prosperity.
The herd and the natural irriga-
tion system for the fertile lands of
the riverbank. Or it may be some
other ideology, materialism,
socialism and the like who in one
form or other wear the deceptive
garb of world salvation and secu-
rity.
This very same situation may
be carried over to the nation as a
whole. The Jewish people
emerged from the dungeons of
Egypt exposed up to this time by
the brutality of Pharaohs,
helplessly deprived of self respect,
insecure and stupefied by cen-
turies of oppression.
The first major crisis occurred
when Moses was delayed coming
down Mount Sinai with the Ten
Plans Banquet
Rabbi Nisson Wolpin
Rabbi Nisson Wolpin, editor of
The Jewish Observer, will be the
featured speaker at the annual
banquet of Cong. Shomrey
Emunah on Wednesday at 6:30
p.m. a't Young Israel of Oak
Woods.
Rabbi Wolpin has been the
editor for the past 15 years.
Di Klezmers Tzvai, a popular
local musical group, will perform.
The banquet committee con-
sists of Marvin Berlin, David J.
Feldman, Morris Prostak and
Morris Ross. For information and
reservations, call Rabbi Shaiall
Zachariash, 557-9666.