BAR MITZVAH

FROM TODDLER TO TORAH READER

L. David Feder. Rabbi Emeritus: Dr.
Milton Rosenbaum. Cantor Emeri-
tus: Norman Rose. Services: Friday
8 p.m.
Shabbat Nahamu will be conducted
by the Gutmann and Trosch families.

TEMPLE ISRAEL

5725 Walnut Lake Rd., West
Bloomfield, 661-5700. Rabbis: M.
Robert Syme, Harold S. Loss, Paul
M. Yedwab. Cantor: Harold Orbach.
Services: Friday 8 p.m., Saturday
10:30 a.m. (Rebbe's Tish 9:30 a.m.),
Weekdays 7:30 a.m., Sunday 9 a.m.

TEMPLE KOL AMI

5085 Walnut Lake Rd., West
Bloomfield, 661-0040. Rabbis:
Norman T. Roman, Rabbi Emeritus:
Ernst J. Conrad. Services: Friday 8
P.m.
Bar Mitzvah of Louis Gabriel Tovar,
son of German and Carole Tovar of
Bogota, Columbia.
Rabbi Roman will deliver the
sermon. Chevrat Torah Study Group
will meet on Saturday at 9:15 a.m.

TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM

5642 Maple, West Bloomfield,

"Zayde was pleased,
Bubbe kvelled,
Mom beamed with pride,
Dad was moved to tears,
Beth Shalom Religious School
Made it possible."

737-8700. Rabbi: Dannel I. Schwartz.
Services: Saturday 11 a.m.
Saturday 9:30 a.m. Rabbi's Tish.

CONGREGATION SHIR
TIKVAH

3633 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 643-6520.
Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg. Services:
Saturday: 7:45 p.m.
Services will be conducted in the
lounge.

HUMANISTIC:

THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE

28611 West 12 Mile Rd., Farmington
Hills, 477-1410. Rabbi: Sherwin T.
Wine. Services: Friday 8:30 p.m.

RECONSTRUCTIONIST:

GRADES K THROUGH 7, TWO CONVENIENT LOCATIONS:
OAK PARK and W. BLOOMFIELD

T'CHIYAH

1035 St. Antoine at Monroe, Detroit,
393-1089. Services: Saturday 10
a.m.
Services will be conducted by Harold
Gurewitz and Susan Berman.

Attractive Non-Member Rates

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Judaism's Message
Is For All To Hear

Special to The Jewish News

E

ven the most assimi-
lated Jew knows the
premier Jewish prayer
Shma Yisrael, Hear 0 Israel,
the Lord our God the Lord is
One. Only the more sophisti-
cated, however, know that the
recitation of the Shma each
day is one of the 613 positive
commandments and is de-
fined as "accepting the yoke
of the heavenly kingdom."
Only the most knowledge-
able Jews can translate this
famous line properly — at

Vaetchanan
Shabbat Nachamu:
Deuteronomy
3:23-7:11,
Isaiah 40:1-1:26.

least in accordance with the
Midrash.
It is a statement of faith
which avers that the Lord
who is now accepted as the
God of Israel will one day be
accepted as One by the entire
world. In effect, it expresses
our belief in redemption, in
the fact that eventually ethi-
cal monotheism will become
the world religion and peace
will reign supreme.
Indeed, "accepting the yoke

Rabbi Shlomo Riskin is chief
rabbi of the city of Efrat,
Israel, and is dean of the Ohr
Torah Institutions of Israel.

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of the heavenly kingdom"
means accepting the respon-
sibility of spreading the
message of ethical monothe-
ism throughout the world.
This is the task of the Jewish
people, the "kingdom of
priest-teachers," the "light
unto the nations of the
world."
The prophets constantly
emphasize that this task can
only be reached from the
backdrop of the land (State) of
Israel. We can only begin to
influence other peoples when
we have our own nation-state,
a government and culture
wrestling with the global and
societal problems which
plague every other people: in
the immortal words of Isaiah:
"From Zion shall come forth
the Ibrah and the word of the
Lord from Jerusalem . . . Na-
tion will not lift up sword
against nation, humanity
will not learn war anymore."
With this understanding,
we can begin to empathize
with Moses' desperate plea
before God to permit his en-
try into the Promised Land:
"I pray thee, let me go over
and see the good land that is
beyond Jordan, the goodly
mountain region and the
Lebanon?'
The Talmudic Sages sensed
that Moses' desire to enter
Israel was more than a
leader's wish to bring his
dream to realization, more
than the understandable
human wish to taste of the
produce he had so tantalizing-

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