TEMPLE
SHIP
SHALOM

IN
HONOR
OF

Friday: New Member Shabbat;
Rabbi Polish will lead the service.
Saturday: 9:30 a.m. Torah Study;
Rabbi Cook will give the D'var Torah.

BETH ISAAC

2730 Edsel Dr., Trenton, 675-0355.
Services: Friday 7:30 p.m.

TEMPLE BETH JACOB

79 Elizabeth Lake Rd., Pontiac,
332-3212. Rabbi: Richard A. Weiss,
Rabbi Emeritus. Services: Friday
8:30 p.m.

TEMPLE EMANU-EL

14450 W. Ten Mile Rd., Oak Park,
967-4020. Rabbis: Lane B. Steinger,
L. David Feder. Rabbi Emeritus: Dr.
Milton Rosenbaum. Cantor Emeri-
tus: Norman Rose. Services: Friday
8:15 p.m. Saturday 10:30 a.m.
B'not Mitzvah: Friday: Amy Nicole
Jeross, daughter of Donna and Barry
Jeross twinned with Rachel T. of
Ethiopia. Saturday: Emily Rachel
Schey, daughter of Kathy and Dr.
Michael Schey.
Torah Study begins at 9:30 a.m. in
the Sasson Shaya Library. Rabbi
Lane Steinger will deliver the D'var
Torah on Friday and Saturday.

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.
Saturday: Bat Mitzvah of Jenna
Megalizzi, daughter of Jerome and
Ann Megalizzi. Saturday, 5 p.m.
Havdalah: Bar Mitzvah of Alan
Reifler, son of Don and Faye Reifler.

The
Tenth
Anniversary
Of
The
Hospice
of
Southeastern
Michigan

Norman T. Roman, Rabbi Emeritus:
Ernst J. Conrad. Services: Friday 8
p.m. Saturday 9:15 a.m.
Special Chevrat Torah session with
scholar-in-residence, Rabbi Herbert
Bronstein, followed by Shabbat
worship and brunch.

TEMPLE SHIR SHALOM

5642 Maple, West Bloomfield,
737-8700. Rabbi: Dannel I. Schwartz.
Services: Friday 8 p.m. Saturday
Rabbi's Tish 9:30 a.m. Services 11
a.m.
Bar Mitzvah of Sean Todd Roseland,
son of Bobbi Roseland.
Tot Shabbat camp Friday evening.

SHIR TIKVAH

3633 W. Big Beaver, Troy, 643-6520.
Rabbi: Arnie Sleutelberg.

HUMANISTIC:

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SUNDAY
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THE BIRMINGHAM TEMPLE

28611 West 12 Mile Rd., Farmington
Hills, 477-1410. Rabbi: Sherwin T.
Wine. Services: Friday 8:30 p.m.
Rabbi Wine will discuss "A
Changing World/Detroit and Zev
Chafetz." Hope will be the theme of
the service.

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T'CHIYAH

1035 St. Antoine at Monroe, Detroit,
393-1089. Services: Saturday 10
a.m.
Services conducted by Susan
Berman and Rosalyn Saltz.

SOUTHFIELD
MICHIGAN

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Man's Profound Moral
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FLO ZIFFER

Special to The Jewish News

T

his year, the Shabbat of
Parshat Bereshit im-
mediately follows the
end of Simchat Torah. With
the intense religious ex-
perience of the Yamim
Noraim (Days of Awe) and the
joyful celebration of Sukkot
fresh in our minds, we turn
from the contemplation of
ourselves as individuals to
the study of cosmic man, as
presented in the biblical ac-
count of creation. "And God
created man in His image; in
the image of God He created
Him" (Genesis 1:27).
The creation of man is men-
tioned twice in this verse,
thereby emphasizing its im-
portance. Man is a distinct,
unique, superior being. What
distinguishes him from the
remainder of creation? As the
verse tells us, he was created

Flo Ziffer is a teacher at
Yeshivat Akiva and the
Community Hebrew High
School.

"in the image of God,"
b'tzelem Elokim. Our rabbis,
rejecting the notion of a
physical God, provide
numerous explanations for
the meaning of tzelem
Elokim. In considering them,
we gain an appreciation for
man's unique nature and con-
sequent responsibility in the
world.
In analyzing the verse from
Genesis, Rabbi Meir Leibush
Malbim, a late 18th century
commentator, differentiates
between the use of the verbs
"made" (asah) and "created"
(barah) in the biblical nar-
rative. The verb made is used
in the text when God brought
into existence something that
represented the next pro-
gressive step in the
developmental process of
creation. "Created," on the
other hand, signifies a higher
order of activity, a process of
creatio ex nihilo, (creating
something from nothing).
Interestingly, both verbs
are employed in the Bible's
account of the creation of
man. In Genesis 1:26, God

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