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work for joint Israeli-Palestinian eco-
nomic development.
Or publicly, as well as in sermons,
urge the American Jewish community
and the Arab-American community to
work together to revive the peace
process that seemed so promising five
years ago.
Two of the traditional Haftarot
(Prophetic readings) for Yom Kippur
speak with great strength to issues of
society. One of them, Jonah, describes
an Israelite prophet who, when com-
manded to prophesy to a hostile for-
eign power, refuses and runs away.
When he finally does what God calls
him to do, his voice of doom so
moves the city that it turns to a path
of decency and saves itself.
One way to understand this
Haftorah today is that the whole
Jewish people is called by God —
along with other communities deep-
rooted in a sense of the Unity of Life
— to cry aloud to a society that is
overwhelmed by greed, exploitation
and violence. To cry out that any soci-
ety that violates the image of God in
human beings and the earth is risking
self-destruction.
How can we break through the
calm of Yom Kippur to hear God's
agonized outcry?
Some synagogues have begun to
insist that congregants bring cans of
food before Yom Kippur, to be given
afterward to a local soup kitchen.
Tradition teaches that.just after we
have broken the Yom Kippur fast, we
hammer the first nails to build a
sukkah. Our inward spiritual affirma-
tions must be turned into outward
physical action.
Does this mean that in taking such
practical steps we abandon the ecstatic
celebration of the "seasons of our joy"?
Not at all. As Isaiah proceeds to say,
our search for ecstasy began as shallow
leaps into ethereal pleasure. If we leave
our flesh and blood behind, Isaiah
says, we cannot bring our whole new
selves along. Only if we let ourselves
crouch and cringe with the humble
and humiliated can we then more
firmly dance on the high places of the
world.
That is why we must face our worst
failings before we can make atone-
ment. That is why we must identify
with the poor and powerless before we
can share an authentic Jewish joy.
That is why we must move from
the heights of Sinai into the furnace of
Tisha B'Av, and only then turn our
selves toward recreating the world on
Rosh Hashanah. -El

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9/18
1998

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