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que is a mosque, but a
synagogue we call shul — a
term derived from "schola," a
place to study. Salvation is
learning. Eighty-five percent
of our youngsters who are eli-
gible are in college, 400,000
in all. Ten percent of the col-
lege faculty members, and 20
percent in our elite institu-
tions, are Jews.
But will we find our soul in
study? Will we find our pur-
pose in learning? The rabbis
taught, "The function of wis-
dom is to do repentance and
to do good deeds so that a
man should not study Torah
and Mishnah and Gemarah
and then kick his father and
his mother and his teacher."
Beware of cerebral conceits
lest the yiddisher kop may
kill the yiddisher hartz. The
rabbis warned, "He who stud-
ies Torah and only Torah and
has no other purpose in his
heart is as if he has no God."
Again, "If somebody studies
and not for the purpose of
doing something with his
knowledge it would be better
if he were not born." Observe
that the sin of Adam is that
he eats of the. Tree of Know-
ledge and not from the Tree of
Life. As if to correct that
choice we sing when putting
the Torah into the Ark not "it
is a tree of knowledge to them
that cling fast to it" but we
declare "it is a tree of life."
The Torah is revered but if
money is needed to redeem
hostages, sell the Torah. If
money is needed to dower a
poor orphan girl, sell the
Torah. The meaning of the
Torah is not in owning it or
quoting from it. To be Torah
is more important than to
know Torah. When the
yeshivah student came to his
rebbe boasting that he had
gone through the Talmud five
times the rebbe asked him,
"And how many times has the
Talmud gone through you?"
The intellect is not the ade-
quate Jewish response to the
ultimate question "what for."
Prayer
Perhaps ultimacy lies in the
liturgical life, in prayer? But
the purpose of prayer is not to
pray. Prayer begins with the
trembling of the lips but it
ends in the movement of the
hands. Isaiah declared: "In
the name of God, when you
spread out your palms, I, God,
will close my eyes to you; even
though you utter many
prayers, I will not listen.
Wash yourselves clean;
remove your evil acts from my
sight; cease to do evil; seek
justice; aid the oppressed;
uphold the right of the or-
phan; defend the cause of the
widow." Prayer is holy but the
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