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TORAH PORTION
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BY RABBI M. ROBERT SYME
I have read the Bible, literally father-in-law. "These once be-
hundreds of times, yet I never longed to you. If you had re-
cease to marvel at its preach- membered that you were once
ments, that are as relevant like that beggar„ you would
today as when they were first have been sensitive to his condi-
tion, and responsible to his re-
written.
Consider, if you will, some ex- quest."
The moral of this story 'is
cerpts from this week's Sidrah:
"And it shall be, when thou clear. Only those who remember
art come in unto the land ... that they were "slaves in the
that thou shalt take of the first land of Egypt," know what it
of all the fruit ... and bring it means to be oppressed and per-
unto the priest, and thou shalt secuted. Only those who re-
say: 'A wandering Aramean was member that they were raised
my father, and he went down in poverty, know what it means
into Egypt, and the Egyptians to be hungry and homeless. And
afflicted us, and we cried unto
the Lord ... and the Lord
brought us forth out of Egypt
... and hath given us this land, Ki Tavo $elichot:
a land flowing with milk and
honey ... and .now, I have Deuteronomy
brought the first of the fruit of 26:1-29:8.
the land'."
If you translate this Biblical
passage into modern parlance,
you will discover that it de- precisely because they re-
scribes, in capsule form, the his- member,• they are prompted to
tory of our parents nor be generous.
grandparents, who came to
There are a few people in
America from Eastern Europe. every community who are sensi-
There, they had lived in pov- tive only to their own pleasures.
erty. There, they had been per- They don't care about what
secuted and oppressed, and then, happens to others. They will
miracle of miracles, they man- never experience the joy and the
aged to come to America.
satisfaction that, comes from
Here, the children of immig- helping others. They have per-
rants, the descendants of mitted a callous to grow over
peddlers, climbed the escalator their hearts.
of success. They became suc-
On the other hand, there are
cessful merchants. They entered many people who give of their
the professions as doctors and time and their resources and
lawyers. Some of them even be- thereby have discovered simcha
came bankers. As they climbed shel mitzvah — the happiness
higher and higher however, that comes from doing God's
many of them never forgot their work on earth.
lowly economic origins. In the
This is why the Allied Jewish
"land of milk and honey," they Campaign, which is soon ap-
were reminded by their tradi- proaching, is so important and
tion, to be grateful for God's so necessary. Aside from the ob-
blessings, and to share their vious good it does for worthy
blessings with those who were causes, it is our continuous col-
less privileged.
lege of compassion, training
There is the gory of a weal- Jews to be rachmonim b'nai
thy Jewish merchant in Poland, rachmonim (merciful children of
who sought a husband for his merciful parents).
daughter. As was the custom in
those days he went to a nearby
yeshiva, and chose a brilliant
young student as his future
son-in-law. Because the young
man was poor, the merchant
bought the finest clothes for Publisher Sued
him. But much to the young
Washington — A former
man's surprise, he noticed that senior staff writer at the Wash-
his future father-in-law took the ington Jewish Week has sued
threadbare tattered old clothes the publisher of that paper for
and carefully placed them in a alleged sex discrimination, the
suitcase.
Washington Post reported last
The years went by. The young week.
According to the Post, a suit .
man became a Prosperous busi-•
nessman. One day, while visit- filed in U.S. District Court in
ing his father-in-law to discuss 'Washington by Janice L. - Kap-
some important business matter ; lan charges that publisher
there was: a knock at the door. Leonard Kapiloff paid a newly
One of the servants opened the- hired male , reporter nearly
door and came back saying that $11,000 more pox year than
there was a beggar asking for Kaplan for performing similar
duties. Kaplan's suit charges
food and raiment.
"Send him away" said the that after complaining about the
young man. "We are too busy to situation she was given a raise
be bothered with beggars." His but that her salary still fell far
father-in-law said nothing. In- below that of the male reporter.
The suit also charges Kapiloff,
stead, he went up to the attic,
brought down a suitcase and who publishes several suburban
opened it. There, carefully ar- , newspapers in addition to the
ranged, were the same old tat- Jewish Week, with making "dis-
paraging remarks about women
tered clothes.
"Look at them," said the on several occasions." •
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