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play havoc on people's lives.
Many come into the world
with hope and joy, as free as
a sparrow, but the human
condition takes them down a
dark and dangerous road.
Homeless, they end up selling
themselves into slavery to get
a roof over their heads.
But one need not despair
forever; during the 50th year,
titles to the land return. The
person forced into poverty
may sink, but only so far.
Eventually, time brings him
back on his feet, free again,
like the dror, freest of all
birds.
Superficially, the connota-
tion of dror seems to clash
head on with the implication
of the jubilee year, which pro-
vides one with the means to
return to the ancestral por-
tion of the land. In effect, peo-
ple are tied to a specific piece
of land, rather than being free
to wander wherever they
wish. But, when we think
about it, the ancestral inher-
itance is a home, an anchor.
Only someone who has roots
can truly feel free. In effect,
the ancestral land functions
in a person's psyche like the
sky of a bird.
In a similar vein, if we man-
age to hold on to the living
tradition of Torah, going back
to when Joshua crossed the
Jordan into Israel, then we're
as free as the dror, and no
authority can ever limit our
spirit. Jews suffer as Jews
when circumstances force us
to sell off our own tradition,
so that we end up languishing
as hired hands in the
spiritual fields of others,
forgetting where we came
from, so that we've become
spiritually homeless.
Every 50 years the "jubilee"
can even return a religious in-
heritance back to her rightful
owners. The miraculous
reawakening among the
Soviet Jews began in 1967,
the year of the Six-Day War,
exactly 50 years after the
Bolshevik Revolution. Is
there doubt in anyone's mind
that for the Soviet Jews —
and so many others influ-
enced by the revolution of
1917 — that 1967 was a jub-
ilee year? That year, a shofar
"proclaiming liberty" blew
for everyone. And now, wit-
nessing the miraculous
return of so many thousands
of Soviet Jews to their
ancestral homeland in Israel,
every day makes this year
5750, a veritable jubilee year
for the Jewish people.
Shabbat Shalom.

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Cantor Gurney

Cantor Hirschenfang

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Cantor Barak

• Modern Works
• Israeli Tunes
• Traditionnal Melodies
• Love Songs
• Opera

Sunday, May 20, 1990

Tickets: Friend $10.00

7:30 p.m.

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Proceeds will benefit the Contoriol School of Sacred Music and Children's Music Programs.

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