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Friday, September 20, 1985 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
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The Sabbath Of Return
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BY RABBI IRWIN GRONER
Special to The Jewish News
The opening word of this Sab-
bath's prophetic portion is
shuuah which means return.
This word gives this Sabbath,
between Rosh Hashanah and
Yom Kippur, its special name,
Shabbat Shuvah - The Sabbath
of Return. The spirit of this sea-
son is conveyed by the words of
the prophet Hosea: "Return, 0
Israel, to the Lord, your God
..." (Hosea 14:2).
During the season of
or
Ha-Nefesh,
Cheshbon
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HYMAN
MOORE
Announces the unveil-
ing of a monument in her
memory at 11 a.m. Sun-
day, Sept. 29, at Hebrew
Memorial Park, Radomer
Section. Rabbi Rosen-
baum will officiate. Rela-
tives and friends are
asked to attend.
Acknowledges with
grateful appreciation the
many kind expressions of
sympathy extended by
relatives and friends dur-
ing the family's recent
bereavement.
The Family
of the Late
The Family
of the Late
REUBIN
SCHWARTZ
ANN
GREEN
Announces the unveil-
ing of a monument in her
memory at 12 noon Sun-
day, Sept. 22, at
Machpelah Cemetery.
Rabbi Yolkut will of-
ficiate. Relatives and
friends are asked to
attend.
Call 863-7736
for info
Announces the unveil-
ing of a monument in his
memory at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, Sept. 22, at He-
brew Memorial Park.
Rabbi Gruskin will of-
ficiate. Relatives and
friends are asked to
attend.
IN MEMORIAM
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In loving memory of
our beloved father and
grandfather
HARRY
MITZ
Never to be forgotten
by his children and
grandchildren.
In memory of
MORLEY
WOLFE
You are sadly missed,
but not forgotten. Loving
wife, Ruth; children and
grandchildren.
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Gone forever, taken as the
Shofar Blasted out Kol Nidre on
Yom Kipper Eve, Sept. 26, 1982.
You taught us love and family.
Always with us, though not
here.
In Loving Memory Of
J. WALTER JONAS
Who passed away Sept. 12, .1983 (Sixth of Tishri).
Forever in our hearts.
Your Loving wife, Carole,
and children
and rationalizations. "Are others
giving more or doing more? Be-
sides, I have so many other ob-
ligations." We soothe ourselves
by these evasions, and we blunt
our sensitivity.
We are promised atonement
during this season: We believe
that God forgives us. He will
provide atonement for our
grievous sins of omission and
commission. Though our sins be
like scarlet, crimson with rebel-
lion and lust, proclaiming our
shame, they will be forgiven.
At this season, I worry about
sins that are not scarlet, but
gray. They are not vivid, nor do
they stand out in bright stripes
and sensational colors. These
tired sins of inertia, timidity,
carelessness and laziness are
dull and drab. Not being con-
scious of their pernicious effect,
we are not likely to feel remorse
or to seek forgiveness for them.
Vayelech Shabbat
On this Sabbath of Return, let
each of us, in the privacy of
Shuvah:
heart and mind, examine the
Deuteronomy
small flaws, the little tempta-
tions, and the minor failures
31:1-30. Joel
that erode the strength of our
2:15-27.
character. Let us arm ourselves
against them and we shall
achieve a triumph of the spirit
that will enable us to win God's
explosion, by massive rejection. forgiveness.
Instead, it is lost by a steady,
small leakage. People allow
weeks to pass without a reli- Jordan Ready
gious thought or a spiritual act, For Peace?
and they come to the synagogue
Jerusalem (JTA) — A group
at this Season of Awe, spiritu-
of prominent American Jews
ally depleted.
People do not lose their faith has come away from meetings
by repudiating it in one mo- last week in Amman and Cairo
ment. They allow it to evapo- convinced of Jordan's and
rate, day-by-day, reserving reli- Egypt's urgent wish to broaden
gion only for high dramatic the peace process with Israel.
The American Jews, leaders of
moments, removing their daily
lives from the domain of its the American Jewish Congress,
influence. By limiting religion reported to Premier Shimon
to three days of the year, they Peres in Jerusalem last Wed.:
diminish the strength and sap nesday on their talks with King
Hussein, President Hosni
the vitality of Judaism.
In like manner do we allow Mubarak and top aides to the
this process to erode character. two Mideast leaders.
One central theme which they
We tell somebne to answer the
phone and say, "We're out" heard repeatedly in the two
when we don't want to be an- Arab capitals, they said, was
noyed. We call this a "white that sections of the PLO had in-
lie," for after all, it doesn't deed moderated their stance and
really hurt anybody. But in the the PLO should therefore "be
process, we weaken our resis- put to the test" in a diplomatic
tance to untruth, for the sig- process.
Prof. Henry Rosovsky of Har-
nificant feature of a half-truth is
that it's a half-lie. And thus we vard, one of the AJCongresti
adjust ourselves to the legiti- group, told reporters his private
feeling was that Washington
macy of lying.
One day a call is made for us should set up talks between
for an urgent communal need, Assistant Secretary of State for
and we satisfy ourselves with near Eastern and South Asian
less than we can give, with less Affairs Richard Murphy and a
than we can do. We have a Jordanian-Palestinian delega-
great array of excuses, alibis tion.
spiritual reckoning, we discuss
the serious problems of our time
— the grievous evils that sully
and mar human existence. But
when we think about large prob-
lems and vast perspectives, we
often ignore the minor deficien-
cies, the petty weaknesses, and
the small transgressions to
which our conscience has been
immunized and of which we no
longer take much notice.
Consider the matter of reli-
gion. Jews don't seek to over-
throw religion as was the case
in the earlier generation of the
enlightenment. I rarely
encounter, in today's world, a
Jewish atheist. Such emphatic
denial is no longer considered
proper. Religion doesn't depart
from our lives by some great
THE.CIRCLE OF LOVE
ANNE F. BARRON
Empty is the poet with no words.
Sad is the bird who cannot sing.
Lonely are the children without their mothers
OH MAMA, MANY ARE THE NIGHTS THAT I LAY IN BED AND IN THE STILL-
NESS OF THE NIGHT MY HEART CRIES FOR YOU. IT IS ONLY THE KNOWLEDGE
THAT YOU ARE IN PEACE AND ARE ONE WITH G-D THAT MAKES IT - BEARABLE.
SO WITH TEARS IN MY EYES I PUT ON PAPER ;THESE WORDS: IT IS NOW
TWO YEARS ON THE 23RD OF SEPTEMBER THAT YOU LEFT US, BUT IN
TRUTH, YOU WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US IN OUR HEARTS.
YOUR DAUGHTERS,
SANDY AND ARLEEN