PURELY COMMENTARY
Heschel
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tionalist attitude which,
taking science as the
touchstone of religion,
regards Scripture as a
poetic product or myth,
useful to men of an inferior
civilization and therefore
outdated at any later
period of history.
Philosophy of religion
has to carry on a battle on
two fronts, trying to win-
now false notions of the
fundamentalist, and to
dampen the over-
confidence of the ra-
tionalists. The ultimate
task is to lead us to a
higher plane of knowledge
and experience, to attach-
ment through
understanding.
A concluding ideology has
significance in Rabbi
Heschel's definition of the
Chosen People idea. It is a
declaration valuable in the
repetitive discussions of the
subject. Rabbi Heschel
asserted:
Israel's experience of
God has not evolved from
search. Israel did not
discover God. Israel was
discovered by God.
Judaism is God's quest for
man. The Bible is a record
of God's approach to His
people. More statements
are found in the Bible
about God's love for Israel
than about Israel's love for
God.
We have not -chosen God;
He has chosen us. There is
no concept of a chosen
God but there is the idea of
a chosen peple. The idea of
a chosen people does not
suggest the preference for
a people based upon a
discrimination among a
number of peoples. We do
not say that we are a
superior people. The
"chosen people" means a
people approached and
chosen by God. The
significance of this term is
genuine in relation to God
rather than in relation to
other peoples. It signifies
not a quality inherent in
the people but a relation-
ship between the people
and God.
Harassed, pursued with
enmity and wrong, our
fathers continued to feel
joy in being Jews. "Happy
are we. How good is our
destiny, how pleasant our
lot, how beautiful our
heritage." What is the
source of that feeling?
The quest for immortali-
ty is common to all men. To
most of them the vexing
question points to the
future. Jews think not on-
ly of the end but also of the
beginning. As parts of
Israel we are endowed
with a very rare, a very
precious consciousness,
the consciousness that we
do not live in a void. We
never suffer from harrow-
ing anxiety and fear of
roaming about in the emp-
tiness of time. We own the
past and are, hence, not
afraid of what is to be. We
remember where we came
from. We were summoned
and cannot forget it, as we
wind the clock of eternal
history. We remember the
beginning and believe in
an end. We live between
two historic poles: Sinai
and the Kingdom of God.
Upon thy walls, 0
Jerusalem
I have set watchmen,
All the day and all the
night
They shall never be
silent.
Ye that stir the Lord
to remember
Take no rest,
And give Him no rest
Till He establishes
Jerusalem,
And makes it a praise in
the earth.
Isaiah 62:6-7
God in Search of Man is a
classic philosophy for all
times, all peoples and faiths.
It is a guide and inspiration
for modern man.
Food
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Rabbi Silver provides an in-
teresting "Pintele Yid" social
item from the Yiddish For-
ward about the Hatan — the
Hossen — the bridegroom in
his marriage to the daughter
of Governor Mario Cuomo of
New York. This is the story
from the Samuel Silver col-
umn about "Kalleh — Bride
— Maria" and her marriage
under the tallis that formed
the huppa:
The kind of juicy inter-
marriage story that
touches all sides of
adherents to Judaism and
by now almost every
Jewish family in the U.S., is
intertwined in the mar-
riage of Maria Cuomo,
25-year-old daughter of the
governor of New York, and
Kenneth Cole, of Great
Neck. Rabbi Charles
Davidson of New York co-
officiated at the interfaith
ceremony with Monsignor
John Jones, of Albany. The
rabbi of the Cole family,
Rabbi Robert Widom, of
Temple Emanuel, who
presided at Coles bar mitz-
vah, was originally asked
to perform the ceremony,
but referred the family to
Rabbi Davidson.