SYNAGOGUES congregation th Achim VICO WEST TWELVE MILE ROAD • SOUTIIIIFI 0. MICIIIOAN 1I1ni4 • rIllffir Scholar Describes The World As Metaphor To Teach Divinity !IMAM COURSE FR IN READING HEBREW FIVF 1 ,h HOUR WEEKLY CLASSES - TUESDAY EVENINGS 8 P.M. CONGREGATION BETH ACHIM STARTING SEPTEMBER 5 For Further Information Contact RABBI MARTIN DERMAN, 352-8670 You'll be reading Hebrew in time for Rosh HaShano. CALL 1 800 44 HEBREW - - - If you already read Hebrew, give this to o friend. 475 FIFII I AVE. SUITE 1810 NEW YORK. NY 10017 Features Editor T o Dr. James Brawer, the Canadian $50 bill in his pocket was spen- ding power. To his young daughter, the brightly colored bill, with pink on the front and an olive-green range of mountains on the back, was a beautiful picture. Like his daughter, who could see only the superficial side, and not the real purpose, of the money, human beings view the world without understanding its reality, s id Dr. Brawer, professor of neuroendocrinology at McGill School of Medicine in Toron- to. The guest of the Michigan Chabad House, Dr. Brawer spoke this week at the Bais Chabad of Farmington Hills on "Reality and Its Shadows." Man often views the Torah - as traffic laws, Dr. Brawer said: A situation exists, and a set of rules is needed to keep order. "In fact," he said, "the ex- act opposite is true. The Torah a COME HOME TO TRADITION CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL OF WEST BLOOMFIELD OFFERS: "WARMTH, CARING AND CONCERN" and is affectionately known as "THE HEYMISHE SYNAGOGUE" Daily Minyan followed by breakfast Shabbat and Holiday Services followed by Kiddush luncheon regularly Where else can you find all of these wonderful features at non-heard-of membership rates?? Only at CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL OF WEST BLOOMFIELD 4200 WALNUT LAKE ROAD 681-5353 - 681-6430 Call our Rabbi, Sherman P. Kirshner or our shule office and LET'S TALK!! BETH ABRAHAM HILLEL MOSES RELIGIOUS SCHOOL Happiness is a Hebrew ucation Full Sunday Morning & Weekday School...Kindergarten thru High School...Youth Programs for all ages...USY Advanced Studies for post Bar/Bat Mitzvah Students. RESERVE YOUR PLACE NOW. CALL 851-6880 Barry V Levine Director of Education and Youth 5075 W. Maple Road • West Bloomfield 46 ELIZABETH APPLEBAUM FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1989 is causual and the world is derivative." He gave as an example the shape of the crystals that form tooth enamel. For many years, these were believed to be in the shape of a hexagon. Not long ago, a friend of Dr. Brawer was walking outside as the sun began to set. Glan- cing to his right, he noticed a shadow in a hexagonal shape exactly like those of the crystals. Then he looked to his left, and saw the figure creating the shadow; it was a rectangle. After numerous ex- periments, the young man realized that a rectangular solid will always cast a shadow of a two-dimensional object. Thus, what scientists saw when they studied enamel was not hexagonal- shaped crystals, but rec- tangular crystals projecting their shadows. Man has an innate tenden- cy to perceive only the shadows and not the reality behind them, Dr. Brawer said. The world of shadows in which human beings live is the world of bills and car repair and going to work each morning, he said. The Hebrew word describing this world is makom, place; men, women and children exist in a tangi- ble place that is limited, physical and restricted. This contrasts directly with God, who is boundless and unlimited. The unpro- nounceable name of God, spelled in the Torah yud-hey- vav-hey, when squared and added up according to the numerical value assigned each letter in the Hebrew alphabet, equals the numerical value of the word makom. The relationship between two such apparently incom- parable words is that God can be found everywhere, both in the spiritual realm and the physical world, he said. - The physical world exists so that man can understand the metaphor of existence, "which gives us the oppor- tunity to grasp divinity," Dr. Brawer said. God uses the world much the way an instructor uses a SYNAGOGUE SERVICES ORTHODOX: Bais Chabad of Birm- ingham/Bloomfield Hills: Moshe Polter, rabbi. 646-3010. 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. 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