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By MARY KORETZ
Yeder Rosh Hashonah I usually
get tsuzamin with my friends, Ruth
and Elayne and our families, to
bagrisn the holiday. It is always a
fraylacher occasion, marked with

Study Law

If a parent wished to study
Torah,and he has a child who must
also learn — the parent takes
precedence. However, if the child
is more insightful or quicker to
grasp what there is to be learned,
the child takes precedence. Even
though the child gains priority
thereby, the parent must not ignore
his own study, for just as it is a
Mitzvah to educate the child, so,
too, is the parent commanded to
teach himself.
Maimonides, Mishna Torah,
Laws of Torah Study 1:4

The Holiday With Hofenung

gelechter and affection. Their
dedication to learning adds to our
conversation. My friend, Ruth, who is
a biblioteker informs us of the
worthwhile bicher that have recently
been gekrogn by the library. Elayne,
ver has been lernen Yiddish, shows
off her newly acquired loshn skills. I
recount the farshaydene
geographical moves my navenadnike
children.
We then sit arop to a holiday
dinner. In the center of the tish there
is alernol the traditional round challa,
symbolizing our hofenung for a yor
without undesirable endings. There is
the gevayntlecher gefullte fish served
with chrayn, red or white. The hindl
soup comes next, followed by the
not-so-traditional skinless and on
bayner chicken breasts, tsugegrayt in
the interest of good nutrition. A salad
consisting of grinz, ogerkes,
pornidors, retecher and burekes is
served. A tsimes and baked bulbes
complement the moltseit. Honey cake
and sponge cake derendikt it. Apples,

cut up in sections, are finally dipped
in honig to express our wish for a
sweet year.
The meal is satisfying but oyf
zicher anyone who knows the face of
friendship experiences epes sweeter
than honey. And surely, each year
that is gebentsht with this sweetness
is to be treasured oyf aybick.

VOCABULARY

yeder
tsuzamin
bagrisn
fraylach
gelechter
biblioteker
bicher
gekrogn
ver
lernen
loshn
farshaydene
navenadnike

every
together
greet
joyous
laughter
librarian
books
acquired
who
studying
language
various
peripatetic

arop
tish
alemol
hofenung
yor
gevayntlecher
chrayn
hindl
on bayner
tseugegrayt
grinz
ogerkes
pomidors
retecher
burekes
tsimes
bulbes
moltseit
derendikt
honig
oyf zicher
epes
gebentsht
oyf aybick

down
table
always
hope
year
usual
horseradish
chicken
boneless
prepared
lettuce
cucumbers
tomatoes
radishes
beets
carrot stew
potatoes
meal
completed
honey
surely
something
blessed
forever

Mary Koretz of Oak Park has taught
yiddish at Workmen's Circle.

To Be A Jew: A Personal Odyssey

By LARRY GARON
On Woodward Avenue at the
noon hour, the traffic was heavy. In
my effort to not become a traffic
statistic, I had two hands on the
wheel and was carefully watching the
road. I had little idea where I was
going and was wondering what I was
getting myself into. You see, I had
been invited by my friend, Rob
Orley, to attend a Yeshiva Gedolah
"Lunch and Learn."
When asked to lunch, my first
thought concerned the food at lunch
time. I'm generally hungry and I
wasn't expecting kosher food to be
good. The learning aspect didn't do
much for me either. I was going
because Rob had invited me and he
was paying.
As I sat at the Yeshiva listening to
a learned rabbi speak about Rosh
Hashanah, I didn't think about food. I

Lunch and Learn sessions,
conducted by Ohr Somayach,
are scheduled on a monthly
basis at the Max M. Fisher
Building, Telegraph Road
south of Maple Road. The next
session is on September 22,
from 12:30-1:45 p.m, For reser-
vations and information, call
352-4870. No prior knowledge
of Hebrew or Torah is required.

thought about my ignorance. I was
34 years old at the time, a husband,
a father and a businessman. I
realized, however, that I knew
nothing about who I really was. My
heritage, my roots, my religion, call it
what you will, I sat there listening
and discoverd that this rabbi was
speaking about me but I had no
comprehension of what he was
saying.
This was frightening to me! It was
like being in a business meeting
directly related to my area of
expertise and not knowng what was
going on. Now, I can assure you as
relates to real estate, I would never
be in that position. In fact in every
facet of life, be it buying a car,
choosing a doctor, etc. I strive to be
as informed as possible which
requires great effort. Yet here, a
rabbi was speaking about Rosh
Hashanah and I was lost.
The Lunch and Learn ended, I
thanked Rob for inviting me and I
made a decision. I was born a Jew, I
would die a Jew, my children were
Jews, for better or worse I would be
dedicated to finding out what it
means to be a Jew.
Whoever said, "good things do
not come easily" was right. Over the
last three years, I have studied Torah
extensively, attended Lunch and
Learns, had weekly sessions with the

rabbi, listened to tapes as well as
reading voraciously. As in business, I
view this time as an investment in my
family's future. What I have found
has been a richness in our heritage
that is so profound, a legacy so
inherent to living life that I cherish
continuing to learn, sharing my
learning with my family and friends
and most importantly passing on to

Larry Garon studies with Rabbi Greenfield.

my children what it means to be
Jewish.
By the way, the lunch that
afternoon three years ago, was so
good, that now my home is kosher.

Larry Garon, a real estate developer,
is national education co-chairman of
the United Jewish Appeal Young
Leadership Cabinet.

