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This verse contains the sol- emn warning against the Profa- nation of the Divine Name — Chillul Ha Shem and the positive commandment to hallow the name of God — Kiddush Ha master charge ****** a high sense of reverence is guilty of Chillul Ha-Shem. A Jewish group which holds public business conferences and meetings on the Sabbath and on the Jewish Holy Days is guilty of Chillul Ha-Shem. . A Jew who expresses ridicule or contempt of his religious heri- tage is guilty of Chillul Ha-Shem. A Jew who insults and defames - Shem. Shabbat Emor: These • terms became the standards for measuring the ac- Leviticus 21:1-24:23. tion of every Jew, for he was Ezekiel 44:15-31. taught that everything he did would be judged by his own com- munity and by the non-Jewish society, and could bring honor or his fellow Jews is guilty of Chil- dishonor to the God of Israel. God's name becomes hallowed lul Ha-Shem. A Jew who responds with in- when those who love Him act in such a manner that this belief tolerance and prejudice to other ennobles their lives and thereby religions and other groups is adds goodness to the world. To guilty of Chillul Ha-Shem. Each Jew is a witness, each provide an illustration, the Tal- mud tells the story about Rabbi Jew is responsible for protecting Simeon Ben-Shetah, a distin- the good name of his own people, guished scholar of the First Cen- and the reputation of God. tury. One day his disciples glee- fully announced to him that they had found a precious stone in the collar of the donkey he had bought from a pagan. "But I pur- Declining chased the donkey and not a pre- Birthrate cious stone," he said, and im- mediately returned the.gem to its Causes Concern owner. Upon receiving it, the pagan exclaimed: "Praised be the Jerusalem (JTA) — A Hebrew God of Simeon Ben-Shetah!" University scholar's report to Thus, Kiddush Ha-Shem is to the Cabinet last Sunday on the do more than what the formal declining birthrate among Jews law requires, to practice goodness in Israel and the diaspora was not out of fear of punishment nor acknowledged by the ministers for one's own glory, but for the to be a matter of serious concern glory of God. and drew various proposals on Martyrdom, the giving up of how to reverse the trend. one's life for the sake of one's be- Prime Minister Shimon Peres lief, is known in the Jewish tradi- urged every Jewish family to tion as Kiddush Ha-Shem. The have at least four children. He martyr demonstrates that for spoke after Prof. Roberto Bac- him, religious faith evokes the chi, head of the Hebrew Univer- highest form of sacrifice. He gives sity's Statistics Department, witness that his belief is truly au- told the Cabinet that over the thentic, and that God has really past decade the number of Jew- possessed his inner life. The Jewish people has ever ish births in Israel has averaged about 50,000 a year compared to preserved in its collective mem- ory the stories of those who gave an average 60,000 a year non- Jewish births. their lives "Al Kiddush Ha- He said that while the dispar- Shem," for their heroism taught an enduring and sacred truth — ity was more or less offset by even more precious than physical the positive balance between existence are the values of faith Jewish immigration and emigra- and justice, compassion and pur- tion and a higher non-Jewish ity, Torah and mitzvah. God's mortality rate, the demographic presence in the world was, as it gap between Jews and non-Jews were, magnified and enlarged by in Israel and the administered the faithfulness of our kedoshim. territories was widening. But if Kiddush Ha-Shem is He said the demographic pros- recognized as the highest of val- pects were even bleaker for ues then the most grievous of sins is Chillul Ha-Shem. Briefly de- diaspora Jews where the aver- age birthrate is 1.5 percent corn- fined, this is an act committed by pared to 2.8 percent among an individual Jew in the full view Israeli Jews. The lowest birth- of public attention that brings disgrace to other Jews and to rate of all in the diaspora is among Soviet Jews, he said. Judaism. Bacchi predicted that low A Jew committing murder is birth rates and intermarriage guilty not only of homicide, but also of Chillul Ha-Shem. The will reduce the diaspora Jewish same is true for theft, violence, population from 9.5 million to- income tax evasion, drug addic- day to 8 million by the turn of tion or any other crime. the century and to 6 million 40 A Jew whose synagogue man- years from now unless the ner and attitude falls short of a trends are reversed.