JANUARY 22 & 23, 1994
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The Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit
Wants To Inform The Public That:
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The following products carry an unauthorized OK on their label:
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Clever Cookies
Maple Creek Farms Pure Maple Syrup.
Dried Fruit is sometimes processed with oils of questionable origin. Therefore, dried
fruit must have reliable supervision.
Many new cereal products and snack products produced by Energy Food Factory,
Inc. of Greenfield, Massachusetts, are OK certified. They must have the OK on the
package. Some are OK dairy.
The Council of Orthodox Rabbis of Greater Detroit would like to thank Rabbi M.
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WERE FIGHTING FOR YOUR LIFE
Masters Of Time
Or Time's Slaves?
RABBI MORTON F. YOLKUT SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS
"This month (Nissan, shall be
unto you the beginning of
months; it shall be the first
month of the year to you." (Exo-
dus 12:2)
A
t the very dawn of Jew-
ish history, God present-
ed our ancestors with a
calendar of their own. A
calendar is essentially an
arrangement of time, designat-
ing periods of varying charac-
ter and significance. Prior to
this time, the Jewish people
lived within the calendars of the
Egyptians and of other people.
The Italian biblical com-
mentator Sforno explains that
precisely now, with freedom at
hand, did God choose to present
the Israelites with a calendar.
Only a free people, which can
direct its own life and give free
expression to its aspirations,
needs a calendar. A slave fol-
lows the calendar of his master,
signifying a subservience to his
master's will and whim. Since
time is not his own, possessing
a calendar would be meaning-
less, even absurd.
Similarly, when our ances-
tors were in Egypt, time was
not their own. It belonged to
and was regulated by their
Egyptian taskmasters. Every
moment had to be accounted
for. Their time was to be spent
not for themselves but for im-
plementing the agenda of their
Egyptian overlords. But now at
the very beginning of the liber-
ation, the Torah tells us that
henceforth time is yours: "Ha-
chodesh hazen lachem
this
month is for you." Up until now
the months belonged to the
Egyptians. Now they are yours.
Free men can and should be
masters of their own time.
Time is something we take
for granted. Time surrounds us
every moment of our lives, and
yet it is often our most misused
commodity. Horace Mann, the
great American educator, once
put this announcement in a
newspaper lost and found col-
umn: "lost somewhere between
sunrise and sunset, two golden
hours, each with sixty diamond
minutes. No reward is offered,
for they are gone forever."
How are we using our time,
especially our unprecedented
amount of leisure time? Is life
simply passing us by, are we
simply marking time, killing
time, wasting time? We live in
—
Morton Yolkut is rabbi of Congre-
gation B'nai David.
a free and blessed society. We
should be able to be masters of
our time and our destiny. But
are we?
The man who always promis-
es himself that he will join his
synagogue's adult education
classes, yet explains his failure,
"I didn't have the time," some-
how is not master over his time.
Similarly, the person who as-
sured his rabbi that he "en-
joyed" his accidental Shabbat
service attendance immensely,
but never returns to the syna-
gogue on a regular basis, is not
a master over his time. There
are many who value Torah and
appreciate the need to "set aside
time" for study. Yet the cir-
cumstances of life intrude and
we are diverted into less im-
portant activities. If we can not
prioritize our time in accord
with our values, then, indeed
we are slaves to the trivial and
the marginal in life.
Are we free or are we slaves?
Elderly people frequently com-
ment about missed opportuni-
Shabbat Bo:
Exodus 10:1-13:16
Jeremiah 46:13-28.
ties, of the frustration of not
having achieved what they re-
ally wanted to accomplish in
their lives. The books and mu-
sic they had missed, the friends
they had neglected, the travel,
study and spiritual growth they
had overlooked— these lost op-
portunities that are now gone
forever. If only they had been
masters of their time and had
rearranged their priorities in
life.
Life does not have to end this
way.
The new calendar the Is-
raelites received immediately
prior to their emancipation,
teaches us a sublime lesson —
that only he is free who is mas-
ter of his own time. The
psalmist put it in other words:
"So teach us to count our days,
that we may acquire a heart of
wisdom." Let us never miss the
opportunity of making the most
of the times of our lives. El
The Bohemian symphonic
composer and conductor
Gustav Mahler was born a
Jew, but decided to convert
to Catholicism in order to
advance his career in late
19th-century Europe.