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Ritual observance fear that the name of God without love may even turn would be scratched or erased counter-productive. or tampered with. That is a We have learned how rites gesture out of respect of God, and rituals entangled with not out of fear of the devil. poor parental and filial rela- The mezuzah is placed tionships lead to hostility between the private sanc- towards Judaism and Jewish- tuary of the home and the ness. We have seen how good public arena. lb be placed family relations bind mem- within the home, invisible to bers of the family to Judaism the world, is to foster insu- and Jewishness. The mezuzah larity, isolation from the reminds us how close to God world of marketplaces and we are when lying down and government. 1b love only my rising up and walking by the family and no one else is an way with our family. extended selfishness. But for A young man told me that the mezuzah to be placed his grandfather had encased without the house is to point the family mezuzah in an egg- a life lived only in public, to shell. His grandfather ex- a life comfortable only with plained that it was meant to strangers. There are public remind us that human beings, Jews who find it easy to em- for all their boastings, are brace an abstract public but fragile, easily hurt by words, who at home are remote, dis- by slight, by being ignored. tant, detached. The mezuzah And that children whom we is between the individual and are instructed to teach the his family and between the in- love of God must be handled dividual and his community. with care as if handling the Like charity, love and care shell of an egg. His grand- begin at home, but it must father taught him well. ❑ not end at the threshold of Rabbi Schulweis is the home. Home is where spiritual leader, Temple social ethics and responsi- Valley Beth Shalom in En- bility to the community are cino, California. cultivated and acted out. Within the mezuzah itself are two paragraphs. The first includes the statement ad- dressed to Israel that God is Convert Gives one. That theological state- Heart, Liver ment of God's unity is fol- lowed by a declaration of our Tel Aviv (JTA) — David love of God. But as if a com- Oren, a former Austrian who mentary on God's unity and came to Israel 12 years ago, love was meant, the para- converted to Judaism and graph continues by focusing served in the Israel army was on the family and specifically the organ donor whose heart on the teaching relationship and liver were used in between parents and children. transplant surgery performed lb love God is not a purely in- at two Israeli hospitals this tellectual or abstract notion. week. God is acted out with people, His identity was disclosed beginning with the family. last week by his widow, Lin- Godliness is exhibited not in da Oren, of Yavne. She said metaphysical or empirical she took the unusual step of arguments but existentially identifying him to encourage in relationships. God is lived other people to donate their not at formal moments, semi- organs to save lives. She said nars, lectures, but in the quite that had been her husband's prosaic moments when lying frequently expressed wish. down, rising up, and walking Oren was originally iden- by the way. God is loved tified as an unnamed through a smile, an embrace, Austrian tourist. He was a kind word, a loving chas- fatally injured in a traffic tisement of another like accident. myself, even myself. His donated kidneys were The mezuzah is a constant used in two transplants. mnemonic of the relation- Dr. Yoram Less, director ships between God and family general of the Health and the individual. It revolves Ministry, appealed on radio around the mandate to love and television last week to God, which is translated into urge "both secular and obser- love of family. It reminds us vant Jews" to donate their that the ritual world of the family is to be observed with organs after death to save lives. love. A table with Sabbath candles, a kiddush cup with Israel has lagged behind sweet wine and a well-baked other countries in organ challah require more than the transplants in large measure prayer benediction. In anger because of resistance from Or- among the family, the Sab- thodox groups.