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I
t is the Shabbat before the
Awesome Days — the Yamim
Noraim. The usual synagogue
procedure of announcing the
coming of the new month — in
this case, the coming of a new
year, as well — does not have to
take place; who among us does
not know that Rosh Hashanah is
at hand?
Each morning we have heard
the warming blast of the shofar
this past month; each day we
have begun that self-inventory
that will continue through the
High Holy Days. This week's
Torah reading — Nitzavim —
holds out to us the possibility of
t'shuvah — of renewed life
through genuine penitence: The
prophetic portion is the climactic
bestowing of God's comfort ex-
pressed in matchless lyricism.
As I read these soothing words,
a new message of inspiration re-
sounds because of personal ex-
perience; "For the sake of Zion
I will not be silent, For the sake
of Jerusalem, I will not be still
•. •
February, 1976. I am flying
from Tel Aviv to Belgium on a
special chartered El Al plane as
a delegate to the Second Brussels
Conference on Soviet Jewry.
Avital Sharansky will be there
pleading for her husband, im-
prisoned and in great danger. I
have messages for her and spe-
cial citations from people in
positions of high influence.
We look up, startled. Coming
towards us from the first class
section of the airplane is Golda
Meir, smiling and smoking, of
course. She sees the open news-
paper on my lap.
"Yesh chadashot?" — "Ls there
Eft Spectre is senior rabbi of
Adat Shalom Synagogue.
any news?" she asks. Without
wiating for a reply, she continues,
"Anachnu zitzot et hachadashot!"
— "We'll create the news!"
And, indeed we do. We arrive
at the great convention hall, rep-
resentatives from all over the
world. We meet journalists, lob-
by politicians, sing a fervent
Hatikvah, applaud Mrs. Meir vo-
ciferously.
The bright banner is stretched
high and wide over the large
proscenium arch. In bold Hebrew
letters it proclaims: "For the sake
of Zion I will not be silent, For the
sake of Jerusalem I will not be
still!" Each season since that
time, when we reach this Shab-
bat, I remember:
I remember Sasha leaping in
the air when he saw me, running
to me with his blond hair and
Shabbat Nitzavim:
Deuteronomy
29:9-30:20,
Isaiah 61:10-63:9.
wool scarf flapping in the winter
air —"Chaver! I told you we'd be
meeting again!" he cries out. We
had stood under the late June
sun two years earlier outside the
Choral Synagogue of Leningrad
on a Saturday afternoon. I had
listened to his story and we had
parted saying, L'iitraot. Yet I had
my doubts. The KGB was re-
lentless; they wanted him back
in jail. But Sasha had believed it.
And we had striven for the mo-
ment when he was finally flown
direct from Vienna after his re-
lease from the Soviet Union so
that he could speak at the Con-
ference . . . "For the sake of Zion
. . .
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