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TORAH PORTION

How Do We Shape An Authentic
And Fulfilling Jewish Identity?

RABBI IRWIN GRONER

Special to The Jewish News

he Torah reading Ba-
midbar describes a
census of the children
of Israel during the days of
Moses. Each tribe was to be
numbered and the total
figures tallied. In the midst of
this seemingly prosaic report,
the Bible introduces a pro-
found spiritual insight: "Take
ye the sum of all the Con-
gregation in Israel . . ." By
what method? "By their
families and by their fathers'
houses." Every person was
reckoned not as a separate
and detached individual, not
as an interchangeable unit in
a series, but rather as a
member of a mishpacha, or
family, in relationship to his
father's house.
An important truth is
taught. One's identity is
established on the founda-
tions of home, family and

Irwin Groner is senior rabbi
of Congregation Shaarey
Zedek.

lineage - in short, on a sense
of belonging. This helps ex-
plain why modern man, so
rootless and insecure, feels
such a great yearning and
deep hunger for the need to
belong, to be linked with
others by ties of affection and
regard.
During World II, the Luft-
waffe so relentlessly bombed
London that children were
sent to the countryside. A lit-
tle boy separated from his
mother and unaware of her
location reacted to his plight
by declaring: "I am nobody's
nothing." Each of us wants to
be somebody's something.
This need is so strong that if
we cannot belong to what is
good, then we will belong to
what is evil.
What accounts for the
delinquency of criminal
gangs? We can understand it
as the revenge of social out-
casts on the society that has
abandoned them, or so they
feel. The home is uninviting;
the neighborhood is a slum;
parents are missing, and the
heart craves companionship it
will accept on whatever terms

demanded. The young who
feel frustrated and rejected
join together as they turn
with hostility and violence to
that ordered society that re-
presents to them the enemy.
Are the victims of insecuri-
ty, loneliness and isolation
limited to the poor and under-

Shabbat
Bamidbar:
Numbers 1:1-4:20,
Samuel 20:18-42

privileged? Not necessarily.
Material possessions alone
cannot satisfy the hunger for
belonging. Consider a gifted
and promising young man or
woman who feels rootless and
alienated. Consider a suc-
cessful entrepreneur who
realizes one day that is home
is not his castle. Consider a
woman, outwardly graceful
and serene, but inwardly
distressed because she feels
unloved and unwanted. Con-
sider an older person who
seemingly has all the
material security he wants

SYNAGOGUE SERVICES

ORTHODOX:

Bais Chabad of Birm-
ingham/Bloomfield Hills: Moshe
Polter, rabbi. 399-3918.
Bais Chabad of Farmington
Hills: 32000 Middlebelt Rd., Farm-
ington Hills. Chaim Bergstein, rab-
bi. 855-2910.
Bais Chabad of West Bloomfield:
5595 W. Maple Rd., West Bloom-
field. Melech Silberberg, rabbi.
855-6170.
Beth Jacob-Mogain Abraham:
15751 W. Lincoln Dr., Southfield.
Dov Loketch, rabbi. 557-6750.
Beth Tefilo Emanuel Tikvah:
24225 Greenfield Rd., Southfield.
Leizer Levin, rabbi. 559-5022.
B'nai Israel-Beth Yehudah:
15400 W. 10 Mile Rd., Oak Park.
Yoel Sperka, rabbi. 967-3969.
B'nai Zion: 15250 W. Nine Mile
Rd., Oak Park. Solomon Gruskin,
rabbi. 968-2414.
Dovid Ben Nuchim: 14800 W Lin-
coln, Oak Park. Chaskel Grubner,
rabbi. 968-9784.
Kollel Institute: 15230 W. Lincoln,
Oak Park. Moshe Schwab, rabbi.
968-0109.
Mishkan Israel, Nusach H'ari,
Lubavitcher Center: 14000 W. 9
Mile Rd., Oak Park. 543-6611.
Shaarey Shomayim: 15110 W. 10
Mile Rd., Oak Park. Leo Goldman,
rabbi. 547-8555.
Shomrey Emunah:
25451
Southfield Rd., Southfield. Shaiall
Zachariash, rabbi. 559-1533 or
557-9666.
Shomrey Emunah-Ohel Moed:
6191 Farmington Rd., West Bloom-
field. Eli Jundef, rabbi. 967-1806.
Young Israel of Greenfield: 15140

W. 10 Mile Rd., Oak Park. Reuven
Drucker, rabbi. 967-3655.
Young Israel of Oak-Woods:
24061 Coolidge, Oak Park. Eliezer
Cohen, rabbi. 398-1177.
Young Israel of Southfield: 27705
Lahser, Southfield. Elimelech
Goldberg, rabbi. 358-0154.
Young Israel of Bloomfield: Ira
Lutzky, 259-8500.

TRADITIONAL:
B'nai David: 24350 Southfield Rd.,
Southfield. Morton Yolkut, rabbi.
557-8210.

CONSERVATIVE:
Adat Shalom: 29901 Middlebelt
Rd., Farmington Hills. Efry Spectre,
rabbi. 851-5100.
Beth Abraham Hillel Moses:
5075 W. Maple, West Bloomfield. A.
Irving Schnipper, rabbi. 851-6880.
Beth Achim: 21100 W 12 Mile Rd.,
Southfield. Milton Arm, rabbi.
352-8670.
Beth Isaac: 2730 Edsel Dr., Tren-
ton. 675-0355.
Beth Shalom: 14601 W. Lincoln
Rd., Oak Park. David Nelson, rab-
bi. 547-7970.
Beth Tephilath Moses: 146 South
Ave., Mt. Clemens. 465-0641.
B'nai Israel of West Bloomfield:
4200 Walnut Lake Rd., West Bloom-
field. Sherman Kirshner, rabbi.
681-5353.
B'nai Moshe: 14390 W 10 Mile
Rd., Oak Park. Allan Meyerowitz,
rabbi. 548-9000.
Downtown Synagogue: 1457
Griswold, Detroit. Noah Gamze,
rabbi. 961-9328.
Livonia Jewish Congregation:
31840 W. 7 Mile Rd., Livonia. Mar-

tin Gordon, rabbi. 477-8974.
Shaarey Zedek: 27375 Bell Rd.,
Southfield. Irwin Groner, rabbi.
357-5544.

REFORM:
Beth El: 7400 Thlegraph Rd., Bir-
mingham. Daniel Polish, rabbi.
851-1100.
Beth Jacob: 79 Elizabeth Lake
Rd., Pontiac. Richard Weiss, rabbi.
332-3212.
Emanu-El: 14450 W. 10 Mile Rd.,
Oak Park. Lane Steinger, rabbi.
967-4020.
Temple Israel: 5725 Walnut Lake
Rd., West Bloomfield. M. Robert
Syme, Harold Loss, Paul Yedwab,
rabbis. 661-5700.
Kol Ami: 5085 Walnut Lake Rd.,
West Bloomfield. Norman Roman,
rabbi. 661-0040.
Shir Shalom: 5642 Maple Rd.,
West Bloomfield. Dannel Schwartz,
rabbi. 737-8700.
Shir Tikvah: 3633 W Big Beaver,
Troy. Arnie Sleutelberg, rabbi.
643-6520.

HUMANISTIC:
Birmingham Temple: 28611 W. 12
Mile Rd., Farmington Hills. Sher-
win Wine, rabbi. 477-1410.

RECONSTRUCTIONIST:
T'Chiyah: 1404 Nicolet Place,
Detroit. 393-1089.

UNAFFILIATED:
Sephardic Community of
Greater Detroit: meets at
Yeshivah Beth Yehudah, 15751 W.
Lincoln, Southfield. David Hazan,
vice president. 545-8945.