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Comfort in enduring elegance.
The Torah portion that is read
on this Sabbath contains a re-
markably vivid story. It describes
the children of Israel, in the
fourth or fifth year out of Egypt.
They have reached the border of
the Negev. Moses decides that the
land has to be scouted, and so he
selects 12 men — not ordinary
men — but in the words of the
Torah: "Every one of them was a
prince, every one of them was a
leader."
Moses gives them their final in-
structions. "Go up to the hills of
Judea. Look over the land. See
what sort of people live there. Are
they pe.aceful, or warlike? Exam-
ine the cities. Are they fortified, or
eaily. accessible? Bring back a
complete report!"
And so, these 12 men, brave and
true, set out on their mission. Aftr
40 days they returned, bringing
back a cluster of grapes that was
so large it had to be carried on a
staff between the shoulders of two
men.
Moses sess them approaching
and says: "Truly this must be a
land flowing with milk and
honey."
Yet, when he asks them to pre-
sent their report, he discovers
that it is a divided report. Two of
the scouts — Joshua and Caleb —
report "It is a beautiful land. God
has promised it to us. We will be
able to take it."
The remaining ten scouts how-
ever, feel "The inhabitants of this
land are giants. We are
grasshoppers by comparison. It is
a barren land, a land that eats up
its inhabitants."
That last statement was rather
surprising. Here they were, carry-
ing these luscious grapes, and yet
they say "It is a barren land."
How do we interpret this story?
The purpose of this biblical story
is to teach us that people tend to
see the same scene - differently! It
happens all the time in daily life.
Five people might witness the
same accident, and yet, they
might have five differing accounts
of what they saw.
The Psalmist says: "They have
eyes, but they do not see." Just
because we all have eyes, does not
Shelach:
Numbers 13:1-15:41.
Joshua 2:1-24.
necessarily mean that we all have
vision. Each one of us sees life
from a different perspective.
That's the important lesson this
week's sidrah teaches us. Twelve
men saw the same land, yet they
saw it differently.
How true this is of us! In our
journey through life, we see the
same landscape, but we see it
differently. Some see oppor-
tunities, while some see only obs-
tacles. Some see the goodness in
people, while some can see only
the greed in people. Some see
chances to help others, while some
see chances only to hurt others.
Only when we overcome our
myopia, will we understand what
the Psalmist meant when he said:
"I life up mine eyes unto the
mountains, and I see whence coin-
eth my help."
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Groups Hail High Court
School Prayer Decision
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New York (JTA) — Last week's
6-3 Supreme Court decision strik-
ing down an Alabama law
authorizing a daily one minute
moment of silence for prayer or
meditation in public schools was
hailed by four American Jewish
organizations.
The four, American Jewish
Committee, American Jewish
Congress, Anti-Defamation
League of B'nai B'rith, and B'nai
B'rith International, said they
view the court's decision as a
major victory in the fight against
efforts to establish state-
sponsored voluntary prayer in
public schools.
Nevertheless, while the court
ruled against the Alabama "mo-
ment of silence" law, it suggested
that such statutes which exist in
varying versions in some 25
states, including New York, New
Jersey and Connecticut, may be
constitutional and not violate the
first amendment's prohibition of
an official establishment of reli-
gion.
The Alabama law, however,
was struck down because it
endorsed religion as a "favored
practice," the court said, adding
that "the legislative intent (of
Alabama lawmakers) to return
prayer to the public schools is, of
course, quite different from
merely protecting every student's
right to engage in yoluntary
prayer."
The case against the Alabama
law was brought by 41-year old
Ishmael Jaffree, an agnostic who
is employed as a lawyer by the
Legal Services -Corporation of
Alabama. He filed suit in 1982
against the Mobile County School
Board after his three children
complained to him that their
teacher had led prayers in school.
The suit was expanded to chal-
lenge the state law permitting a
moment of "meditation or volun-
tary prayer" and a separate sta-
tute providing for teacher-led
prayers.
The ADL's Civil Rights Com-
mittee chairman Seymour Reich,
hailed the Court's decision as a
"reaffirmation that organized
religious activities do not belong
in our nation's public schools" and
called the Court's action "a major
decision supporting the funda-
mental constitutional principle of
separation of church and state."
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