My Dear Friends, n,;i and hostility to ;nin '"1Y.l11V thousands more Yiddishe Kinder, and n11y1::i1. This is the root of the escalating On xyi1 '!:l nJW at the Agudah give them a Torah Chinuch, to become a Convention, I was privileged to address conflict between the Orthodox and the pride and joy to ?x1wi ??:::i. Strengthen the great assembly, and I n1ade a heart Secularists in Israel today. and expand the network of 'KIJY.Y lUn. rending appeal to "go all out" to promote "Get involved," as the Novominsker There is only one remedy that could Rebbe said at the Convention. and expand the Torah Chinuch in Eretz change the whole image of Israel and turn Yisroel it into the f·loly Land, the residence of the Let us mobilize all our efforts and How can we fr)lerate a situation, Divine people, that it should be. It is a dedicate a!l our resources to this nnn?n where hundreds of thousands of children peaceful, amicable remedy, without '11YY.l and we will achieve miracles even a·re exposed to a non-religious or offense to anyone. Open wide the doors as in the days of the 0'KJ1DWn irreligious chinuch, which breeds nK)IV of Tora(< schools and fill them with - n",IV'1DJ:J. II ... and we will auueve-L~ mirac• Ies. ''
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THE ROLE OF THE JEW rim 8,5). In that vein, golus is meant INGOLUS to be instructive, prodding us and guiding us to improvement as Jews e Jew in Golus: We are all and as ethical beings. ware that at specific points Yet, throughout history there n history our conduct was have been those who have failed to unworthy, and as a result. we-the respond to the teachings of golus, Jewish People-underwent a chur and instead of seeking to strengthen ban, suffering the destruction of our their commitment to Torah, they en Beis Hamikdash and exile from our deavored to blend in with their host homeland. The prophets had culture. Not just in Germany, not warned us of the consequences of only the Reform movement, but in our conduct and, tragically, their all places of our exile, throughout admonitions crune true-not once, our long golus, there have always but twice .... In fact we are still in punitive state, but an expression of been those who thought that assi the midst of the second golus, yet G-d's paternal concern, for "As a milation would win them accept· to be redeemed. father punishes his son, so does G-d ance by their non.Jewish hosts, and Golus, however, is not simply a inflict punishment on you" (Deva- total acculturation would win them
The Jewish Obseroer, February 1988 5 The Jew who guides his every step with Turah is a Jew who has purged himself of Golus from within, and is bringing us closer to the day when we are totally free of Golus.
respect and love. . .. As one step 7">i, during the early years of their QUESTIONS WE MUST ANSWER toward accommodation followed heroic undertaking of transplanting another, it took the likes of a Hitler Telshe to America's Midwest. Reb efore we can consider '""''" to demonstrate that even after Elya Meir remarked that he was so ourselves free of influence four successive generations of inter unaffected by the change in his en Bfrom our golus environment. marriage, a trace of Jewish ancestry vironment that "at this moment I'm we must answer some basic cannot be lost. Even the hapless not even in the United States. I'm questions: offspring of so many generations of sitting in Telshe.'' dilution was banished to the con Responded Reb Motte!: 'You're so • Can our business activities centration camps as a Jew! infiuenced by your environment stand up to a point-by-point In its function as a means of in that you've even lost your sensitivity examination by criteria based on struction, golus is meant to refine to the fact that you're here-in the the Shulchan Aruch? Are our the Jew, for the experience of being United States!" financial dealings truly free of tossed about on the stormy seas of In the case of such men of stature, deceit, usury, and misleading exile can ultimately serve to bring "loss of sensitivity" was a very subtle practices? or are we infected by the out the best in the Jew. Indeed, today matter. Our gedolim have always atmosphere of greed and wealth-at the realization is growing: Sur been concerned that their commit any-cost, so prevalent in today's vival-and for that matter, salva ment to Torah values not be diluted marketplace of values? tion-lies in discovering our heri by the golus environment. A hun • How important is Torah in our tage, and asserting it. We are wit dred years ago, Rabbi Alexander daily lives? Would it be dominant (as nessing the fulfillment of Malachi's Moshe Lapidus, RavofRatzin, wrote it should be), then we would not find prophecy: "l will return ... the hearts an unsigned tzava'a (ethical will)to ourselves spending thousands of of sons to their fathers"(3, 24). Who his community, entitled Divrei dollars on vacations with such ease, would have expected that the Emes, in which he said: "My dear when our Torah institutions are Shavler Rav, Rabbi Meir Atlas 7">l, children, we live in a corrupt world. suffering so from financial hard one of the founders of the Telshe We have abandoned mitzva observ ships. Paying full tuition should not Yeshiva in Europe, would have ance, and we are guilty of all sorts put a parent's mind at ease, as long grandchildren in South Africa, of major transgressions every day. as our children's rabbeim are paid drifting away from Yiddishkeit? [Whom was he addressing? Jews an insufficient wage-to the extent And who would anticipate that one who during the month of Ellul close that gifted, inspiring men are forced of them, a gifted surgeon, would their businesses in mid-day and to leave the field of chinuch to find thirst for a life of Torah and mitzvos, repair to the beis hamidrash not to more lucrative ways to provide for and would today-in Jerusalem-be escape an anti-Torah influence that their families. studying Torah with depth, and be pervaded the streets, but to avoid • Is Torah study central to our engaged in writing seforim for self-indulgence!! day? to our week? I recall hearing reaching out to our alienated "Study the Sefer Chafetz Chaim, the late Ponevezher Rav, Rabbi brethren? my children, and see how we must Yoseif Kahaneman 7"'1, speak in guard our tongues, and how failing Baltimore, when I was a child. While to do so brings such churban (ruin) most of his address was beyond me, GOLUS IN THE JEWS in our lives." I remember vividly how he decried He addressed Torah Jews as the "sandeh" (Litvish pronunci though they were the dregs of ation of shandeh-scandal) ofbeing nfortunately, we tend to lose society! Yet we assume that our lives content with a Sunday school sight of the mere fact that we are fully consistent with the Torah's education, instead of a full-week chi Uare still in golus and it is at expectations and that by virtue of nuch for children. Our contempo this point that golus as a state of simply approaching the "ladder rary Sunday/sandeh is the lack of alienation from the Divine enters firmly planted on earih, with its top Torah commitment that permits a us.so to speak. I recall a conversation reaching toward heaven"-never yeshiva graduate to spend less than I overheard between Rabbi Elya Meir mind attempting to climb it-we four or five hours of his free day Bloch and Rabbi Mordechai Katz have already done our duty. every week in the beis hamidrash
6 The Jewish Observer, February 1988 A weekly opportunity to immerse angels." GOLUS: A BREEDING GROUND oneself in Torah study for a good The Rambam in his introduction FOR REDEMPTION portion of the day should not pass, to his Sejer Hamitzvos. advises a without . being utilized to the person to first witness the Creator's ile golus is the antithesis maximum! miracles in His Torah: then he will f geula, the two are • There is another, highly be equipped to see His miracles in ntertwined, in that golus significant reason to study Torah the heavens. Without the is a preparation for geula. Indeed, with intensity-as a means of prerequisite of Torah study, on can Chazal tell us that Chumash She· combatting the influence of golus. scan the heavens with great mos-Sefer Hageula, the Book of Leaming with depth transforms a intelligence, and still see naught. Redemption-is introduced with person and endows his world-view • The requirement for recog the names of Yaakov's twelve sons, with a Torah perspective. Indeed. nizing G·d's hand in daily occur· to tell us that all twelve have names the passage in Tehillim says: "Gal rences is no different. Our sacred that foretold the geula. During all aynai v'abita niflaos miTora literature is full of precedents for two hundred and ten years in secha-Open my eyes that I may see this: Goshen, where the Jews were event· wonders from Your Torah." The ually subjugated and then enslaved, word is 'from" not "in Your Torah." • When Yaakov Avinu left home they were preparing for their re In addition to the marvelous in· to spend over twenty years of his life demption. Especially Shevet Levi, sights in Torah that one gains from with Lavan in Charan, he detoured which persevered in Torah study study, one also acquires a new en for fourteen years, which he spent and Yiras Shomayim, preserving lightening way of understanding in the Yeshiva of Shem and Eiver. the essence of their Jewish identity, the world and interpreting events His activity there is described as and was preparing for the geula taking place. hitmin atzmo-literally, he hid him· actually ushering it in. The imperative is to study! self in Torah, a term that connotes We can fulfill our role today in Immerse yourself in Torah! And total immersion. This was necessary bringing this bitter golus to its final then you can follow with: "Lift up because passion for Torah and end by maintaining that same your eyes and see: Who created indulgence in worldly pleasures are fidelity to Torah, that same deep this!"-Not what created this, not mutually exclusive. Strengthening involvement in Torah study as our merely gaining a deeper appreci himself in the one-Torah study, he predecessors did in their own golus. ation of the marvels of science and was prepared to reject the other Unfortunately, some people in the wonders of nature. But "who" materialism and hedonism, which leadership positions today are and develop a profound awe over the was the hallmark of Lavan's society. under the impression that the battle Creator responsible for these • Upon approaching Har Seir, the for Jewish survival will be won on marvels. Without the benefit of a Jews were instructed to travel the front pages of our newspapers, Torah perspective, one can view the tzajona-northward, to avoid the while in truth seeking publicity is most breathtaking panorama in all Edomites. The Midrash relates the contrary to daas Torah, and can creation, and echo the words of the word tzajona to tzajun-hidden, only be counter-productive. The Jew Soviet cosmonaut, who was the first implying that they hide them· who guides his every step with person to see earth in the specta selves-that is, immerse themselves Torah, is a Jew who has purged cular setting of outer space: "! fully-into Torah study so as not to himself of golus from within, and searched the broad expanse of the be distracted by the blandishments is bringing us closer to the day when heavens and saw neither G·d nor of the Edomites' way of life. we are totally free of golus.• Not just a cheese, a tradition ...
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THE JEW IN GOLUS:
THE FOUNDATION FOR Now. the question of the talmidim this context. the basic responsi HALACHIC GUIDLINES was in regard to "Kabeid es avicha bilities of kibbud av v'eim belong v'es imecha," one of the Aseres Ha to the entire world. address the theme of "The dibros (Ten Commandments). This is evident in an incident in ew in Golus"-our relation These were given only to Israel, not Chumash: When Eliezer proposed hip with the nations of the to the nations of the world. The marriage to Rivka on behalf ofYitz world in our Golus situation-we answer to their query should have chak, the Torah records that, "Lavan must first take measure of the great been based on halacha, or at least and Besuel replied" (Bereishis ness of Kial Yisroel in the context on the conduct of people who live 24,50). Rashi notes that from this of the other nations. An incident by halacha. Why go for guidelines passage, it is evident that Lavan was recorded in the Talmud can help us to Ashkelon-to an idolater, no a rasha (wicked) because he spoke gain insight into this relationship. less-and endow him with such up before his father, Besuel, could Rabbi Elazar's talmidim (dis importance as to refer to him by reply. Now, Lavan was not a Jew: fur ciples) asked him, what are the name? To be sure, it is fascinating thermore, honoring one's father is demands of the mitzva of kibbud that a heathen somewhere once did not among the sheva mitzvos bnei av v'eim, honoring one's parents? honor his father to such an extent, Noach Nonetheless, Chazal (sages Rabbi Elazar told them to learn from but that does not seem to answer of the Talmud) declare him a rasha, the conduct of a non-Jew in Ash their question. for kibbud av v'eim is an aspect of kelon, Damma ben Nesina by name. In truth, there are two levels of derech eretz, which a non-Jew is His was the greatest expression of kibbud av v'eim. One is universal, also expected to fulfill. It is a matter kibbud av v'eim imaginable: The and applies to all mankind: the other of hakaras hatov- gratitude for all sages once came to Damma to pur is a mitzva, addressed exclusively to that parents do for their children chase a diamond for the choshen Kial Yisroel. The world existed for especially when the parents are (the breastplate) of the Kohein Ga twenty-six generations from Crea respectable people. dol, and they were willing to pay any tion, until Israel stood at the foot Apparently Nesina was a respect price. But the key to the jewelry box of Mount Sinai, on the basis of de able man, and Damma ben Nesina lay under the pillow on which his rech eretz-civility and ethical con carried the concept of gratitude to father was sleeping (others say it duct. Not only was mankind charged his father to its highest form. Thus was under his father's feet). He re with sheva mitzvos bnei Noach when the talmidim had inquired fused to awaken his father, for the seven Noahide commands-it about the halacha of kibbud av feiting the gain of millions of dollars was instructed in the principles of v'eim, Rabbi Elazar replied by first because of his respect for his father! derech eretz, proper midos. Within laying the ground work by showing
8 The Jewish Obseroer, February 1988 based on an address by Rabbi Shimon Schwab N"l:>'JVJ Rav of K'hal Adath Jeshurun of New York, delivered at the recent national convention Qf Agudath Israel of America HOW HIGH A PROFILE?
how far a non-Jew carries this con nation is more than simply cept. without the guidelines of ha· expressing gratitude for not having lacha. This response to the ques been born into a family of Nazis or tion tells us the extent of kibbud av PLO-members. The bracha, to be of v'eimasan expression of the human value. must refer to being treasured being as a tzellem Elokim-formed as one of a group of noble creatures. in G-d's image. That is where it If all the nations of the world peaks with the non.Jew ... and that and it's a tendency today to think is where the mitzva of kibbud av this way-are depraved. foolish and v"eim begins in the Jewish scheme wicked. it is no distinction to be of things. better than those who are depraved. The special nature of the Jewish foolish and wicked. That is no basis mission is summarized in Moshe for praise to the Ribbono Shel Olam. Rabbeinu"s final words to Kial By the same token, gratitude for Yisroel before his passing: '"How for being given the Torah cannot be tunate you are. 0 Israel ... you will meaningful if all non-Torah science tread on the high place [of the na shall be for Me an Am segula-a is nonsense. if all secular knowledge tions!"" (Devarim 33. 29). Where the nation treasured more than all the is without value. What glory is non.Jew reaches his highest level of nations'" (Shemos 19,5). The Sefor· ascribed to Torah knowledge if its achievement. there. at that point. no points out that '"although the en distinction is simply that it is must the Jew begin to grow. Such tire human race is more precious superior to nonsense? To the con are the demands being made of Kial to Me than all other. inferior crea trary. Chazal have told us that there Yisroel. tures. for man alone represents My is indeed chachma (wisdom) purpose. as our Sages say. 'Precious amongst the nations. As a matter is a man who was create in the of fact. upon seeing a wise non.Jew. AN APPROACH TO THE NON-JEW Image' (Avos 3.14 ). still you shall be one pronounces a blessing. praising to Me a treasure beyond all of them.'" G-d '"for having given of His know n one respect. the Jew must If one simply looks with disdain at ledge to [a creature of] flesh-and strive for prominence-the high other nations. what is the gain of blood.'" But all their knowledge-all I est profile imaginable. This is being treasured-the best of an their sciences and all their wis based on Kial Yisroel's elevation ignoble heap? To bless G-d daily for dom-shrinks into absolute noth from amongst the nations: ""And you being a member of the Jewish ingness before the majesty of one
The Jewish Observer. February 1988 9 Gratitude for having been given the Torah cannot be meaningful if all non.:rorah science is nonsense, if all secular knowledge is without value. kutzo she! Yud (small stroke in the and the yeshiva had been, an office kehillos and establish our own sacred Torah. building and a garage stood. I looked houses of worship, without interfer· Yet an attitude of disdain for the up at every window, where I had ence ... a country such as America. other nations is to be expected, as known everyone who had once lived where Yiddishkeit has developed a natural outgrowth of having suf· in those apartments, and I saw Ger and can develop, and is making such fered the recent decimating chur· mans looking down at me. And I felt admirable strides forward. In regard ban in Europe-and I am a witness sick. to such nations, we are keenly in· to it. After such barbaric behavior At the time, I recalled Rashi's terested in the type of impression by one of the world's most civilized comment on the first pasuk in the we make. In regard to them, we are nations, and silent indifference on Torah, and I wondered. Rashi asks concerned that our "wisdom and the part of so much of the rest of why the Torah starts with "Beret· understanding" be appreciated, so the world, many of us have lost basic shis" and not with "Hachodesh they may comment favorably in respect for the opinions of mankind. hazeh lachem-this is your first regard to Jewry: "This is a singularly Because of our anger and our deep month"-the very first mitzva given wise and understanding people." pain, we have developed an attitude to Klal Yisroel. He replies that the And when we express our hope: "Let of ''Who cares what other nations goyim will say, "Yisroel listim all nations praise G·d, all peoples say?" We have seen their civilization atem-Israel you are thieves! You extol Him" (Tehillim 117,1) we refer and culture collapse in a major are not entitled to the Land of to such malchuyos she! chessed. catastrophe. We have been deafened Israel!" G·d's account of Creation In all our dealings with others, we by the silence of the so-called moral demonstrates His right to award the must distinguish between these two majority of decent people. We no Land to the People of His choice. At types of nations. longer care. Let them say what they that moment in Frankfurt. I want! thought: Who cares? Let them say Permit me to share a personal ex· it! Is it necessary to structure the DEALING WITH A NATION OF EVIL perience: I cannot forget a trip I Torah to appease these sadists, made, returning to Germany some these cruel people? Let them say twenty-five years ago: my father'"" what they want! word of caution is in order had requested that I visit the burial The Torah promises us that the here. Religious Jews are often places of my grandparents and Jews will be chachomim u 'nevonim ccused of having a "go!us great-grandparents. I arrived at the b'einei ho'amim-wise and under mentality." We, for our part, must airport of my hometown. Frankfurt, standing in the eyes of the nations. have the courage of our convictions where I had lived until thirty years Who cares what they say? even if they are unpopular, because earlier. and I saw these clean-shav· As these thoughts were flowing we stand on firm ground. The Ram· en, immaculately dressed Germans, through my mind, I suddenly caught ban in Parshas Vayishlach cites a with their high-gloss shoeshines sight of a fleet of military trucks Midrash that relates that whenever so clean smelling, so vainglorious. passing by, loaded with American Rabbi Yannai went to Rome to deal Guten Morgen, mein Herr . .. I heard servicemen. I was so excited that with the government on behalf of the old language, expressing the had I not been embarrassed, I would the Jews, he would take along a Chu· same haughtiness as before. I saw have waved to them.At this moment, mash and review Parshas Vayish· before me men of my age-among I realized that there are two kinds Lach, which describes the encounter them must have been former SS of nations-the malchiyus horisha between Yaakov Avinu and Eisav: men who had tortured little chi!· (wicked nations) and the malchiyus Seven times Yaakov prostrates dren. They killed a third of my shel chessed (kingdoms of kind· himself before his brother and calls people! Jn the clean smell that ness). The prophecy that "The him "adoni-my master," and refers wafted about them, I choked on the nations will be destroyed," only re· to himself as "avdecha-your stench of the gas chambers.... A taxi fers to certain nations. the malchi· slave." The Ramban explains that took me to the beis ha'olam (ceme· yus horisha, the likes of Nazi Ger· Chazal recognized this as the teryl. and from there to my former many.Austria, Russia. and Libya.... parsha of golus, telling us for all home on my former street, where I A malchus she! chessed is, by times how to deal with every saw nothing but churban-desola· contrast, a place where we are malchus horisha, based on tion. Of the shul.just a piece of stone permitted to develop ourselves as we Yaakov's conduct in his was left. Where the bets mtdrash wish, and create yeshivas, form confrontation with Eisav.
10 The Jewish Observer, February 1988 I recall from my days as a talmid in the authority of the Chumash. then we Yeshiva of Telshe, how the Telshe Rav, certainly are endangering ourselves Rabbi Yoseif Leib Bloch '"~i, described the as well as fhe welfare of our breth· entire episode as a comedy. I understood ren, who might be helped in other this interpretation later when I saw in the ways. Quiet diplomacy entails a Zahar Chadash that the Torah never really great mesiras nefesh of its own says that Yaakov bowed down to Eisav. avoiding the reassurance of head Yaakov Avinu saw G-d's presence before him. He knew that Eisav was nothing but lines. The purpose of discreet a pawn in the handsofG-d, who had placed activity is not to show that we also him temporarily in a position of power, for have a voice. To be sure. 'We are not reasons of His own. When Yaakov bows doormats anymore!" "Never againl" down seven times, he bows to the Ribbono and whatever other slogans are cur· Shel Olam When he says "avdecha," he renily popular may sound beautiful refers to his status before the Ribbono Shel to the ear, and saying them, or hear Olam: "I, YaakovAvinu. am Your servant." ing them shouted, can make one's And .. adoni" is not addressed to his brother chest swell with pride. But the basic who is one minute older than he is; "adoni" question is: How do we truly help means the Ribbono Shel Olam Eisav, the vainglorious fool, believes that it is directed Acheinu Bnei Yisroel? toward him. Chazal instruct us to proceed mies of Jewry, there is only one THE KINGDOMS OF KINDNESS this way whenever we deal with a approach: do not provoke them; do malchus hortsha. Even today. when not anger them; do not embarrass e rules of dealingwith a mal we live in the free society of this them. Eisav never forgets, and only hus shel chessed are totally malchus she! chessed. America, we harm can come from antagonizing ifferent from those for nego must not abandon this guideline him. If anti-Semites in Austria want tiating with hostile powers. The first when dealing with hostile nations. to elect one of their ilk, a former Nazi point is never to forget that we are Others. who do not know how to criminal, as their president, let in golus. even when under the most learn Chumash-and some who do them. Do not meddle. It is not our benign circumstances. We should know how, but seem to have for concern .... If a foreign leader recognize that if at this juncture in gotten the lessons-ridicule us for chooses to embrace Arafat or history, we are blessed with the good our "golus mentality." It takes a Waldheim, let him do so. He has will of the authorities in this great measure of courage to have an demonstrated his inner leanings. country, that is the Ribbono Shel opinion other than that of the We cannot afford to forget that Olam's doings. He has His own majority, but we can draw strength whatever statements we make. Master Plan, and under this warm from our knowledge that we have a whatever actions we take, can relationship with our host country, solid precedent: We carry our Chu· antagonize the reshaim, and may Torah is a thriving reality in the mash in hand, so to speak, when bring harm to Acheinu Bnei Yisroel. growing number of yeshivos, kollel· we seek the counsel of Gedolei ... In Russia, more than two and a im, Bais Yaakov schools, kehillos, Yisroel before we embark on a half million Jews are virtual hos· and generally in communal life. But project for the hatzala of Kial tages. There is a sizable Jewish pop· in this golus status of ours we dare Yisroel. (This approach may not ulation in South Africa and in Arab not forget the letter that Yirmiyahu apply to problems in Eretz Y!sroel. countries. Our primary concern in Hanavi sent to Golus Yohoyachin which is surrounded by a raging our hatzala efforts on behalf of our in Babylon. (The Jews were treated ocean of enmity. Baruch Hashem, Jewish brethren must be in terms very decently there.) He says, "Fur G·d has placed our most eminent of actually helping them, not simply ther the welfare of the city into Gedolei Yisroel in Eretz Yisroel, and to show that we Jews can also raise which I have exiled you. And pray they are the ones to be consulted our voices or make the newspapers to G·d for the welfare of the city I the regarding their problems.) in the manner that the others do. country of Babylon]. For in its well· Yaakov Avinu did make one error, We are meant to be different from being, will you find well-being" (Yir· Chazal say: he should not have sent all the others, and so is our image. miyahu 29. 7). Kavod hamalchus emissaries to give regards to Eisav People who choose to travel to respect for the government-has and pay his respects to him. They Washington to demonstrate for been the hallmark of Jewish deal quote a pasuk in Mishlei, "Some· Soviet Jewry should "take along the ings with the host country wherever body who grabs hold of the ears of Chumash" and consult Parshas Jews have lived. Respect for the rule a dog will get into an unnecessary Vayishlach. If the tone of such "dina d'malchusa dina-the law of fight." Eventually he will get bitten. gatherings is set by non-Torah the land prevails," as long as it does He should not have told Eisav a leaders, who do not recognize Toras not conflict with Torah law. has thing. When dealingwith sworn ene- Elokim and do not accept the been the guideline for Jewish con·
The Jewish Observer, February 1988 11 How high a profile? Unfortunately, when we identify the Kosher Jew with a Viennese table, it is a very low profile, indeed. duct of affairs for generations. lt appear to befrum Jews are actually gala exposition of kosher gluttony. should be no less in the case in our considered as if they proclaim The purpose of kashrus. says the current stage of golus. "There is no Torah unto Israel," for Chumash, is to promote "Men of The second rule is always to en the Torah instructs the Jewish holiness you shall be unto Me" deavor to make a Kiddush Ha people not to commit dishonest acts. (Shemos 22, 30). An exposition shem-to bring glory to G-d's Name and they v•n put the lie to this dedicated to Kashrus should spot through our actions. The Prophets command. Should they actually light the kedusha of keeping ko instruct us to emulate Avrohom adhere to this directive. then the sher, rather than project the image Avinu. and invoke the respect of the greatest Kiddush Hashem, in this of being a "zoleil ve'sovai-glutton nations as he did, earning the greet respect. would result. and drunkard" of the highest ing: 'You are a prince of G-d in our Several years ago. newspapers and magnitude.... How high a profile? midst" (Bereishis 23,6). This fulfills magazines published stories about Unfortunately, when we identify the G-d's vow to Avraham: "All the a great Jewish family renowned for kosher Jew with a Viennese table, families of the earth will be blessed both its remarkable business suc it is a very low profile. indeed. with you" (Bereishis 12.3). And cesses and its philanthropy. The indeed, they did feel that they were stories stressed that everybody blessed because of his presence. ln trusts them because they are hon HIGH PROFILE ADVOCACY our time, too, we must present to est: that their word is gold, because the world a symbol of dignity. The they are Orthodox Jews. ven in a malchus shel bracha we recite every morning. Another rule. Let us beware of chessed we can face grave "Oter Yisroel besifara-You crown lama sisro'eh-do not be conspicu E dangers to our existence, in Israel with glory,'' carries a message ous in your wealth even if it is hon the spiritual sense. When we face the of avoiding boisterous behavior, and estly earned. as Yaakov Avinu prospects of a Gay Rights Bill, or the by contrast fulfilling the rabbinic warned his children: Why display Equal Rights Amendment, it is a dictum of "greeting every person yourselves before others as if you matter of pikuach nefesh-spirit first-even a heathen in the market have sufficient food. when everyone ual survival. Such issues call for place." else is going hungry? His sons did vigorous action to protect our very Also, we must beware of causing have enough. but others did not. existence. As time goes on, new Chillul Hashem-desecration of Thus his admonition: Don't.flaunt areas of contention can arise, G-d's glory through our conduct. Let your wealth! How, then, does one wherein the Jaw of the land can us be in the forefront of those who deal with the public display of wed interfere with leading a Torah are meticulously honest. Those who ding extravaganzas. public celebra existence. make the headlines through deceit tions covered by the media, detailing ln such cases. the first rule is to and swindle and smuggling and how many thousands of dollars the be unafraid, and not be ashamed forging and defrauding the govern kallah's dress cost. and how many because people may mock us. Yes. ment and the public-no matter thousands were spent on the ring? we are in golus. but the Torah is how devout they are in their out Another example of imprudent not in golus. This, of course, ward appearance-have the blood of excesses is the twenty-six page requires the guidance of Gedolei Kial Yisroel on their hands. Stealing display advertisement in the New HaTorah: no step may be taken from a non...Jew is more severe than York Times to "sell" an institution without the counsel of the most stealing from a Jew. for whoever is of Jewish learning. Or for that mat prominent talmidei chachamim of guilty of the former has no atone ter any display of excessive luxury, our time. In this respect. we must ment, should he die without doing lavish dress. and opulent appear pay homage to Agudath Israel of teshuva (repenting), because of the ance. These all send the wrong America. which consults Torah Chillul Hashem involved. Chazal signals to the world at large. lt authorities in formulating its policy, have gone on record including those creates greed. jealousy. and hatred. and in carrying it out so effectively. who lie or steal from the Gentiles Listen to the old zoken, the father When the profile delineates loyalty among those who are mechalel of the twelve tribes, Yaakov Avinu: to values and methods consistent Hashem, for they provoke non-Jews "Lama sisra'iL" with Torah, then the profile must to say. "There is no Torah within Another point that is somewhat be high. proud, and uncom Israel." Liars, swindlers. thieves who similar centers on the widely-touted promising.•
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THE TORAH JEW ENCOUNTERS THE WORLD OF SCIENCE A Review Article
When we talk of points of contact, or conflict, between Torah teachings Judaism does not prescribe a and scientific fields of study, we are apt to think primarily of such areas as specific economic system but it biology or geology. Yet a number of important works have been recently demands the sanctification of any published wbich explore tbe relationship between Torah and economics, as system in which the Jew finds well as psychology and medicine. himself (as it demands the sanc tification of all of life). by imposing its own standards. The result is a ECONOMICS AND mE JEW has always been the principle that specific "Jewish economic man," private property is given to him by adhering to a detailed set of reli tb All Your Possessions, G-d and that he is responsible for gious concepts. Of course, the Jewish Ethics and Eco how he uses it. Positive duties and individual Jew is often tempted to Wnomic Life, by MeirTamari legal restraints are involved-and fall short of the ideal way in which (Free Press, N.Y., 1987, $22.50) is a the author traces this theme in to conduct his behavior-but overall comprehensive survey of the inter detail through such areas as it is extraordinary how funda action between Torah law and the competition, prices, and profits: mentally Jews have been molded by economic environment in which the wages and labor: money, banking the Torah's precepts. Jew lives. Basic to the Jew's outlook and interest: charity and welfare: The author is an internationally and conduct in economic matters and even environmental issues. renowned economist, and has ad-
The Jewish Obseroer, Febn.imy 1988 15 whether it fulfills a socially useful Judaism does not prescribe a specific economic function. This is an example of the author's view that economic analy system but it demands the sanctification of any sis can help sharpen the focus of system in which the Jew finds himself, resulting halachic study and decision. His in a specific "Jewish economic man." book, while very well written, is ne cessarily more technical than Pro fessor Tamari's (e.g. touching even mirably combined his economic author's Free Enterprise and Jew on such details as futures and expertise and his command of ish Law. Whereas a book like Rabbi options trading); but this does not reduce its interest for the serious Torah codes and responsa to pro Z. Fendel's The Halacha and Bey duce this fascinating work. His ond (previously reviewed in JO, Nov. reader. survey of Jewish economic history '84) seeks to clarify the fiscal-ethical is necessarily brief and therefore responsibilities of the Torah Jew, PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHIATRY AND suffers from oversimplification in Professor Levine is concerned with THE THINKING JEW some respects (e.g. the goal of the the impact of the Torah's legal mussar movement, or the definition provision on a variety of areas of entirely different area of teraction between Torah of "Kammerknechf' status). but contemporary relevance, such as d scholarship is the field this is realJy entirely tangential to advertising and promotion, supply Af of psychology. The particular the main body of the book which side economics. inflation. social is truly beyond cavil. welfare and financial speculation. In urgency of their encounter lies in the fact that the issue at stake is his discussions of this last topic, he Another significant work in this alJ-pervading: the nature of man and field is Economics and Jewish Law raises the question whether it is tantamount to gambling (forbidden the understanding and direction of Jewish Perspectives (Ktav and Y.U. his behavior are a central concern Press, N.Y. $20.00 he, $14.95 pb), by by the Torah) or permitted; and he of Torah-teachings as well as the Aharon Levine, seeks to answer it by analyzing a follow-up to the subject of all psychological study and there are, of course, funda mental differences. In a recent issue ANNOUNCING $300 OF PRIZES ofJO (Dec. '87) Rabbi M. Y. Friedman pointed out that there are various approaches to the problem, and "Dear Hashem - Thank You" Contest suggested the development of a (Based on the New Booklet "Singing Hashem's Praises.") Torah theory of psychology and of methods of psychological guidance Open to all young men and women based on it-given the anti-religious underpinnings of most secular Ages 12-18 psychological theories. and the Write a 1 or 2 page letter thanking Hashem. "morally neutral" counselling procedures based on them. In contrast, M. H. Spero has All entries must be postmarked by Lag B'Omer and in eloquently championed the opposite clude the age and school of the writer. In addition, we re viewpoint in two major works, quest that you read at least one chapter of our 'Singing' Judaism and Psychology, Halakbic booklet before writing your entry letter. (Schools have per Perspectives (Ktav and Y.U. Press, mission to xerox copies of any one chapter.) N.Y., 1980, $20.00) and Handbook of Psychotherapy and Jewish Seven $50 Prize Winners Ethics (Feldheim, N.Y., 1986, $19.95 ). He stresses that there is no One for Each Age Group detailed organized body of Torah The first 25 entries will receive a free Torah tape. You're doctrines about human behavior always a winner when you honor and appreciate Hashem. and personality development and the variety of problems arising in To enter, send your letter to: these areas. The commonly accepted Dear Hashem Contests-Box 82, Staten Island, NY 10309 alternative is to take advantage of You may order the 96 page Booklet "Singing Hashem's Praises" "certain 'approved' psychological for $5.00 from Yeshiva Fund, Box 82, Staten Island, NY 10309 techniques, while rejecting allegedly disagreeable philosophic under pinnings and actual techniques"
16 The Jewish Observer, February 1988 analogy lend specific halachic value-oriented and judgmental, guidelines to modern practice" whilst the psychotherapeutic ap (Reviewer's italics). These analogies proach requires the patient "non would allow "the extension of defensively to probe, examine, and halachic norms" to specific psycho experience the realm of hirhurtm" therapeutic applications. For in Professor Spero tries to deal with stance, the psychotherapeutic en this issue by positing that the deavor is seen as a form of v!duy therapist fulfills his duty of since viduy involves the communi tochacha by causing the patient to cation of one's aveiros; by extension, outgrow his problem, and that this their comparison would permit the process should be considered an act full working through of the patient's of teshuva. problems even though this entails Obviously, Torah concepts are dwelling on-and talking about given here an interpretation that hirhurei aveira, which one is raises many questions. At that same normally forbidden to entertain. ls time, however, Professor Spero's ap this a legitimate way to determine proach will not satisfy the "ortho halacha? And how valid is the dox" psychotherapist, for it flies in ("Torah ideology and psychological analogy on which the halachic con the face of what Spero acknowledges methodology," as this approach has clusion is based? After all, viduy is to be a "common psychological been called), Professor Spero con siders this alternative totally un necessary and unsatisfactory, Prac tical methods divorced from a sound SNOT CHAYIL SEMINARY FOR WOMEN theoretical basis represent a dubi in BAYIT VEGAN, JERUSALEM, ISRAEL ous way of treating patients, and will not be of much help in solving many Offers: of the serious problems faced by the • Intensive Limudei Kodesh Program • Emphasis on Middot & Character psychotherapist Moreover, he feels • Personal & Warm Atmosphere • Teachers Training Program that such an approach discourages • ln·Depth Study of Eretz Yisrael • Relive Tanach With On Spot Tours efforts to synthesize the differences • College Accreditation • Fall and Spring Semesters between Torah teachings and • Community Chesed Programs psychology which, he argues, could be resolved without doing violence Rabbi Yehoshua Freilich, Dean to either set of tenets, and are crudely exaggerated by uninformed for Additional Information Call (718) 441-9495 or 846-4695 explications of psychoanalytic or write P.0.8. 16406, Jerusalem, Israel 02-431483 philosophy and popular misunder standings of therapeutic tech niques, He himself seeks to develop a theoretical basis for a unified ATTENTION ALL HIGH SCHOOL AGE GIRLS approach applying psychoanalytic psychotherapy within a halachic framework. The case he makes for MACHANE YERUSHALA.YIM this effort is certainly a strong one; for High School Age Girls yet a closer examination raises serious doubt whether such an THE ULTIMATE EXPERIENCE IN TOURING & effort can succeed and, in particular, CAMPING IN ERETZ YISROEL whether Professor Spero's approach FOUR FUN FILLED WEEKS OF RUACH AND ADVENTURE is satisfactory. IN A RAIS YAAKOV ATMOSPHERE •Beautiful Accommodations at SEMINAR YERUSHALAYIM TORAH MODELS FOR • Exciting Hikes & Tours to Points of Interest• Interesting Workshops PSYCHOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES & Shiurim by renowned Mechanchim • Fantastic Evening Programs and Activities pero's approach "posits spe DIRECTED BY MRS. MIRI ISLANGERI COHEN-STAFFED BY SUPERB MADRICHOT cific halachic models rep VERY REASONABLY PRICED• REGISTRATION LIMITED TO THIRTY GIRLS resenting analogies to mod S CALL: MRS. MIRI COHEN 201·98S·573B (A,M. & EVENINGS) em psychotherapeutic principles MRS. CHAYA COHEN 718-252-7243 (AFTERNOONS & EVENINGS) and practices, which through
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The Jewish Obseroer, February 1988 19 Can the concepts treated in halacha necessarily who approvingly states that "he was modest, humble and honest in be quantified in scientific terms? Are the rules of character" (this article is also shot osmosis relevant to salting meat-and the through with basic Talmudic mis· scientific definition of heat and fire to the laws takes-not surprising, since the author considers G. Bader's Jewish ofShabbos? Spiritual Heroes a reliable source). Finally, the treatment of complex halachic issues in this type of forum Another issue: Can the concepts on the subject (collected in the Sefer for lay readers in necessarily a risky treated in halacha necessarily be Yoseid Ne'eman). business. An instance in point is the quantified in scientific terms? Are There are distinctions between article on artificial insemination by the rules of osmosis relevant to the approaches of the scientist and Green (vol. 8/9). It quotes Rabbi salting meat-and the scientific the Torah scholar that have to do Moshe Feinstein's responsa on definition of fire and heat to the laws with value judgments. It is bother A.l.D. (artificial insemination by of Shabbos? Professor Levi, as can some to see an article on kavana donor) and the Israeli court deci· be expected of him, is rightly very (vol. 3/4) quote side by side the sions relying on it, but not his letter cautious in touching on this issue Rambam and Reb Chaim Brisker of Kislev 22. 1965, in which he in (vol. 3/4); but it requires clarifi with Professor Heschel and Louis effect nullified his earlier decision. cation, taking into account perti· Jacobs. And what do we make of the And while the author deals pri· nent comments of the Chazon !sh author of an article on Mar Shemuel marily with situations created by A.1.D. rather than its permissibility, the reader will not get a sense of that very definitive and total opposition to A.l.D. that is, for instance, clearly stressed by R. M. Halperin in his We are proud to announce that we are once article on "Blood typing in Halacha," again presenting a series of four shiurim in one of the many excellent articles in these volumes. It is understood that every Jewish ····-E HILCHOS PESA CH a.···· community has a Rav and poseik. given by the revered posek Individual Orthodox scientist surely recognize that before making HACiAON RAV MOSHE STERN, SHLITA decisions involving a question of DEBRECENER RAV Torah law, they must present a she'eila to a halachic authority. to be heard over your nearest phone - 24 hours a day Would it not be indicated that the editors of this type of publication beginning every half hour - by dialing should have one or more poskim of universally recognized stature to (718) 436-5166 pass judgment on articles before they are published?• Shiur #1: from Sunday, March 6th, through i'"°li:tl'C March 12th Shiur #2: i)'il:IM i,iMi ~''i" Mi:li,M CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST from Sunday March 13th, through i'"'li:ti'C March 19th DR.BENZION Shiur #3: MC!:)i, C"i,:l ri=:lM SOROTZKIN from Sunday, March 20th, through i'"°li:ti'C March 26th N.Y. STATE LICENSED Shiur #4: iic i, .. i, ":M=r.ii rii:ii,M ADULTS from Sunday, March 27th, through ntic :ii;> April 1st AND Sponsored by: CHILDREN Torah Communications Network 1618-43rd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11204 (718) 266-7151 Producers of Diaf-A-Daf, Mishnah-On-The-Phone & Dial-A-Shiur
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RABBI SHAUL YEDIDYAH ELAZAR J''~~ of MODZITZ On His Fortieth Yahrzeit
AT THE TISCH zimra,'' praising G-d for choosing have visited his Shabbos tisch.2 song and melody. In the Birchos According to a visitor to such a tisch bbi Shaul Yedidyah Elazar Haftorah we say "Habocher ba· in Jerusalem, Reb Shaul began by aub '"" the late Modzitzer Torah uv'Moshe avdo": G-d is saying Sholom Aleichem'. Why isn't mebbe, is remembered by praised for choosing the Torah and the Modzitzer Rebbe singing? Jews of all backgrounds with much Moshe Rabbeinu. His servant. Our people wondered. He also recited respect and fondness-plimarily as task is to extol G-d for having chosen Ribbon Kol HaOlamim and Etshes a creator of soul-stifling niggunim both, and to emulate Him in this (Jewish song), but also as a Gado! dual choice.' 2. This look place in the Chassidishe Shul in the Batei Warsaw section of Me'ah Shearlm, in baTorah. As he put it. in "Yishta· To appreciate his approach to 1935. bach" we say "Habocher beshirei Chassidus, one would have had to 3. In Modzitz, the custom is to say Shalom Aleichem and Ei.Shes Chayil without any tune. Ribbon Kol Haolamim is said quietly between Mr. Nathan, a systems analyst with Chase 1. Found in Imrei Shaul, a collection of some Shalom Aleichem and Eishes Chayil. Azamer Manhattan Bank. lives in Brooklyn. of his Divrei Torah. Bishvochin is sung during the meal.
The Jewish Observer, February 1988 23 "TIT.vv hen a Jew has a problem, he is so confident of G-d 's mercy, that he sings about His salvation before it happens."
Chayil without any melody. After niggunim repeated itself through alarm clock, so its sound will Kiddush and Hamotzi. the first out the evening.6 awaken me." course was served and shirayim Reb Shaul often quoted the "The same applies to neggina. (morsels of food left over by the response by his father, Rabbi Yisroel Everyone has his regular lifestyle Rebbe for the chassidim to partake) Taub '"" of Modzitz, when asked, with its sounds and rhythms. but were distributed-a procedure that what does neggina accomplish? a niggun will break him out of his took close to an hour. Reb Shaul Reb Yisroel answered, "Neggina reverie, and can bring him to cleared his throat, the people causes people to do teshuva and teshuva." quieted down ... and he said divrei brings them closer to Hashem. Let Torah for three quarters ofan hour!4 me explain this with a mashal Many people became discouraged, (parable): BEINNING WITH AHOSHANNA and a few quietly took leave of the shul. At the conclusion of the divrei A miller once went ID the city to buy Torah. Reb Shaul started to sing an alarm clock. While wrapping the en Reb Shaul was born on Azamer Bishvochin. Some who had alarm clockfor the miller, the clock Hoshanna Rabba. 56477 , left heard him from a distance and maker ridiculed him: "How can you is parents placed a ho quickly returned. As he continued use an alarm clock? Your mill shanna (willow branch used in the singing. more people came in, until makes so much noise and yet you day's ritual) in his cradle. His there were more people present than sleep through it all. You'll never grandfather, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu at the beginning of the tisch 5 This hear the ring of the alarm!" '"" of Zvolin, commented that the pattern of a course of Seudas The miller answered, 'You may newborn baby should grow to be a Shabbos. long divrei Torah and be a clock-maker, but you don't hoshanna (savior) for Klal Yisroel. know human nature. I'm so Hoshanna Rabba is the ushpizin
4. According to Ben~Zion Shenker, a well-known accustomed to the mill, that I can day of David Hamelech the author Modzitzer chassid and composer of classical sleep through all the noise it of Tehillim, and Reb Shaul strove ntggunlm. this tisch was the exception to the makes. But I'm not used to the David Hamelech's rule. Normally Reb Shaul said divrei Torah after to reflect Torah he sang a niggun. as well as his powers of singing and 5. Told by Reb Dovtd Shternshuss il"Y. who was 6. M.S. Geshurt, in his book Bets Kuszmtr. who prayer. at the tisch. was also present at the ttsch. Before World War I. Reb Shaul lived in Stopnitz, having married .. . the granddaughter of the local Rav.8 During the war. Reb Shaul came . down with typhus. He developed a Seeking experienced outstanding Rebbeim very high fever. and began shouting for all-boys Yeshiva .elementary. school and hallucinating". After the fever broke, Reb Shaul was asked what (Division of Yeshiva and Kolle! Ramach) had happened. He replied, "I was in thriving Torah community in Miami Beach taken before the Beis Din Shel Excellent Salary. 7. The letters for 5647 l"l'.l!l1 can be transposed to the word zemiros n;1:n. The letters can also be transposed to form UJ"'ln to hint. which was Please contact us at the form of his dtvrei Torah.. As a rule, he ended his divrei Torah with a gematri.ya and/01 a roshef teivos of the main concepts of the dvar YESHIVA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Torah. 8. His father-in-law, Rabbi Shaul Hakohetn OF GREATER MIAMI Schwartz, succeeded his father as Rav of Stopnltz. The old Rav of Stopnltz, Rabbi Chaim 1961 Alton Road, Miami Beach, Florida 33139 Yitzchok Hakohetn Schwartz was known throughout pre-W\VI Poland as a Gadol in both Day: 305-673-0710/Eve: 305-672-3233 nigla {the revealed parts of Torah) and nistar (the mystical parts). 9. Told by Ben-Zion Shenker, who heard it directJy from Reh Shaul.
24 The Jewish Obseroer, February I 988 Bobover Rebbe N"\J'?'O remembers Reb Shaul playing an active role in fighting the anti-shechita laws in Poland. 12 AN INTENSE LOVE FOR THE LAND Shaul had an intense love or Eretz Yisroel. having msited it three times before World War II. After his arrival in the United States, in 1941, he described himself as "a Polish refugee tempo rarily in the United States, on my way to Eretz Yisroel." Indeed, he said that he was more inspired to compose niggunim in Eretz Yisroel than in Chutz La' aretz. After one of his trips to Eretz At the Knessia Gedola Qf Agudath Israel, in Marienbad ( 1950's). Yisroel, he was asked by a chassid, Maalo (the Heavenly court), where of the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah 'What did the Rebbe bring home I was told to recite everything I had (Council of Torah Sages) of Agudath from Eretz Yisroel?" ever learnt-by heart!" From that Israel of Poland, and attended the Reb Shaul answered, "You'll hear time on. Reh Shaul memorized Knessios Gedolos (International the answer on Friday night"--when 13 whatever he learned. Based on what Congresses) In Vienna and he sang Koh Ribbon at the tiscli is found in his Divrei Torah. Reh Marienbad. He was active in the with a niggun that he had composed Shaul mastered Tanach. Shas with founding of a Vaad Mishmeres in Eretz Yisroel. Rashi and Tosefos, Midrash Rabba, Stam in Poland" (which safe He often quoted Rabbi Nachman Midrash Tanchuma, Sifro, Sifri, guarded kashrus of sifrei Torah. 12. The Bobover Rebbe told this to Rabbi Shmuel Zoharand the Tikkunim. Rambam, mezuzos, and tefillin), and the Eliyahu Taub '.:i":::n, Reh Shaul's oldest son and succ.,-essor. when the Rebbe J"::n came to visit the Shulchan Aruch, as well as many United States In 5744. Sifrei Chassidus verbatim.10 11. The founding Kol Koreh has been reprinted 13. Most chasstdfm in Poland did not sing Koh After World War I, Reh Shaul by the Vaad Mishmeres Stam of New York. Ribbon. This was told to me by Ben-Zion Shenker. became Rav of Rakov, one of the older kehillos in Central Poland, where he became known for his Torah knowledge and his skill as a poseik (halachic decisor). His father CAMPRANINU was niftar on 13 Kislev 5681, and Reh Shaul succeeded him as Mod "Where Learning Comes Alive" zitzer Rebbe while still Rav in For the True Beis Yaakov Type Girl Rakov. He spent three years as Rav Ages 11-17 •Summer 1988-5748 in Karczev, until 5688 (1928), when he moved to Otvotzk, which was Lovely campus in the heart of Eretz Yisroel close to his chassidim, who lived close to separate swimming beach. mainly in Warsaw.Although he never ~ Extensive touring on a·1r conditioned buses* Outdoor swimming functioned as Rav of the town, he pool with slides and water park* Exciting memorable trips to Mekomos HaKedoshim did open a majoryeshiva there, which *Strong stress on Middos & Tznius * Daily shlurim on relevant topics* Experience first hand Mitzvos Hatluyos BeOretz * Exceptional camp program-including painting, music, ALS, became known as a major training Drama, Dance, Sports, Arts & Crafts, Aerobics, Conversational Hebrew, Concert performance ground for poskim in Poland. for Tzedokah * Sichot by Rabbi Yisroel Cornish, Rav D'Kha! Chizuk Hadas, Brooklyn, NY At the same time, he was very * Shacharis & Mincha Teflllos Daily actively involved in Kial Yisroel SIX FUN PACKED WEEKS problems. Reb Shaul was a member For further information and registration contact our directors: IN ISRAEL IN U.S.A. 10. Rabbi Hershel Newmark of Montreal told me Leible & Miriam Gluck Rabbi Yisroel & Rebbitzen Shaindy Comish this. Ben-Zion Shenker commented that many Moshav Beil Hilqiyya (English Principal, Yeshiva of Brooklyn H.S.l times during saying divrel Torah. Rav Shaul D.N. Emek Sorek, 76815 1421 Avenue 0, Brooklyn, NY 11230 stared straight ahead and would recite long Tel: 055-93358 Tel: (718) 376-3735 quotations-as if he was reading it out of the sefer.
The Jewish Obseroer. February 1988 25 In 1941, Reb Shaul described himself as "a Polish refugee temporarily in the United States, on my way to Eretz Yisroel."
FLIGHT AROUND THE GWBE
th the outbreak the World War II, the week before W:Rosh Hashana 5700 (September, 1939), Reb Shaul and his family began a flight from destruction, with a trip that eventually took them around the world. His son, Rabbi Chaim Yitzchok Taub, described how they heard the shefar that Rosh Hashana. They were aware that a hidden tzaddik, With officers aboard ship on his second retumfrom Israel. who visited Reb Shaul on occasion, lived in a forest near Dubenka, Braslover's reading of the passage He replied that he had shortened where they were wandering. Sud "Uk'chu mi'zimras ha'aretz bik· his stay. for whatever he did see was denly, they heard a blast of a shefar. leichem-Take along a branch overshadowed by the presence of the They followed the sound and, "I saw [zimral from the Land," to refer to secularists wherever he went. Reb a little hut filled with burning can· a niggun (zemer). Shaul brought the conversation to dies. The nistar, dressed in white, Reb Shaul visited a leading an abrupt close by saying, "You were was blowing shojar, unaware of all rabbinical figure, upon the latter's in Eretz Yisroel but for a few days. that what was going on outside of return from a brief visit to Eretz It took the Meraglim (Moses' spies) his immediate environment." Yisroel, and asked him, 'What did forty days to find lashon hora to When Poland collapsed under the you see in Eretz Yisroel?" report about Eretz Yisroel!" combined weight of the German and Russian armies, Reb Shaul fled to Russian-controlled territory with Everything For Your Floor-At Jbur Dom; his family. Reb Shaul encouraged And Now, All Par Jbur Wall, Tbo. his chassidim to flee whenever and however possible-even if it meant traveling on Shabbos. When a Modzitzer chassid from Radom cried to Reb Shaul about being mechallel Shabbos to escape the • We come to you Germans, Reb Shaul answered him, • Stoy at home ond enjoy personalized service bv profeSSiOnols "Don't cry. I did the same myself." • Avaiioble days, evenings ond Sundays The Rebbe spent Yorn Kippur in • Qr_ vlslf our custom showroom QUALITY the town of Kamin, near Kovla, by appointment CARPET • T!LE • LINOLEUM FINE PERSIAN AND ORIENTAL RUGS where in response to the requests D!STlNCTIVE WALLPAPER OVER 38 YEARS EXPERIENCE EXPERT INSTALLATION oflocal Jews he lead the tejillos. Two Residential • Commercial PROFESSIONAL CARPET CLEANING of his chassidim-former talmidim SUPERB VALUE ~I· ··-··~~ of his Yeshiva in Otvotzk-entered F .""\ the shulin the middle of Mussajand ,._,. ne will create with you --~ CALL SHIMON'S -~ . .an interior that compliments your home ii fainted. They later explained, 'We've I i andmeetsyourownstandard~fexcellence i! AND ENJOY been on the run since Rosh Ha· ~k.. with superb value, J 718·376·7343 shana. We had thought that the
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26 The Jewish Observer, February 1988 denly, we heard our Rebbe's voice! We thought for sure that we were dead and had come to Gan Eden! PINCHAS MANDEL Thank G-d, we are still alive and hearing the Rebbe!" Over 35 Years Experience in Kvura in Eretz Yisrael •Dedicated to Kavod Haniftarwith personal STOPOVER IN VILNA responsibility throughout service •Highly recommended by Gedolai Hadar -Here and in Eretz Yisrael- fter Succos, Reb Shaul and 1569 - 47th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11219 his family arrived in Vilna, hen capital of Russian Day & Night Phone (718) 855-5121 occupied Lithuania14 . Whenever Honesty - Integrity - Reliability Reb Shaul held a tisch in Vilna, the CHESED SHEL EMES . as unders1ood dnd practiced by one active in the indu~try more than half a century shul was packed by chassidim and Taharas Haniftar Should Never Be Commercialized misnagdim alike, all pushing to get as close to the Rebbe as possible. . . . On the 19 Kislev,5700,Reb Shaul spoke at the jarbrengen of the WAITING LISTS, WAITING LISTS! Lubavitcher Chassidim in Vilna.15 While in Vilna, Reb Shaul Isn't there somewhere you can send your son or daughter in developed a deep friendship with Rabbi Chaim Ozer Grodzenski J">l, the summer for just one trip and not have to wait and see if the leading Torah figure of the time, the 8 week customers have left over some slots? paying him frequent visits. After We are proud to present the answer-a full summer of fun Reb Shaul told him the divrei Torah packed into four exciting weeks at he had said at the previous Shalash Seudos, Reb Chaim Ozer began sending his personal secretary, The R'Chaim Bliezer Gluck z"l Rabbi Jaffe '"'" to the Shalash Seudos sessions, to later repeat Reb CAMP AGUDAH/MIDWEST Shaul's divrei Torah to him. At a South Haven, Michigan gathering in Vilna, one of Reb Shaul's niggunim was sung. A participant remarked to Reb Shaul Located near the shore of Lake Michigan. This picturesque that this niggun was composed by setting, just a 2% hr. drive from either Chicago or Detroit, was Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Barditchov. formerly a Four-Star Hotel. The 60 acre site includes a full array Reb Shaul commented, appreci of air conditioned indoor facilities as well as an olympic sized atively, "It feels good to have one's swimming pool and all other recreational activities. • composition called a Barditchover niggun." At one tisch in Vilna, the crowd BOYS' SEASON GIRLS' SEASON vying for shirayim got out of hand. 1st Four Weeks 2nd Four Weeks Reb Shaul commented, "If the July 5-Aug. 1st Aug.2nd-Aug. 29 Germans understood the sod We hope to repeat last Special Teen Program for (secret) of shirayim, they wouldn't year's smashing success! 10th graders-all new in be fighting this war!" Rabbi Leibel Trainer the Midwest! An explanation then followed: -Prog. Director "The sod of shirayim is to leave Rabbi Mordechai Levin Mrs, Mire! Simcha -Head counselor -Prog. Director something over for others. If the Mrs. Oevori Herbst Germans would only practice this, -Head Counselor they wouldn't be fighting right now!" TUITION IS $840.00 FOR THE FOUR WEEK PROGRAM FOR INFORMATION AND APPLICATIONS CALL OR WRITE 14. Most of the information regarding Reb Shaul's stay in Vllna ls foWld in the preface to Rabbi Yosef Chaim Karmel - Director the Iniref Shaul. The story about the exit visas N.J. (201) 370-0046 - IL. (312) 267-1442 ls found In Beis Kuzmir. 15. The Dlvrei Torah are found in one of Reh 6031 N. Monticello Ave., Chicago, IL. 60659 Shaul's notebooks, mentioned further in the A CHINVCH PROJECT OF AGVDATH ISRAEL OF CHICAGO article.
The Jewish Observer, February 1988 27 "Everyone has his regular lifestyle with its sounds and rhythms. A Niggun will break him out of his reverie, and can bring him to Tushuva."
The Russian occupation of bombing of the road they were Lithuania impressed Reb Shaul traveling. He continued composing with the urgency of getting out of this niggun in stages. throughout Europe. The Soviet government was the trip. During the Erev Pesach not particularly inclined to granting matza baking18, in 5701. Reb Shaul exit visas to Polish refugees, even if was humming and tapping with his they had entry visas for other cane on the floor, and then an countrles.16 Reb Shaul decided to nounced: "I finally finished Min challenge this policy, and applied at Hameitzar." the Intourist office in Vilna He was invited by the NKVD for an interview. His Inquisitor. a Jew, TRAVELS FROM STRENGTH ... TO STRENGTH charged that the Torah was a capitalist document. Reb Shaul answered that the Israelites in the e Rebbe traveled around the midbar (wilderness) were the first US and Canada, to give en true socialists, as they had no need couragement to those with of material gain. In addition. family trapped In Europe. This was halacha Is designed to protect the personally taxing. as he had lost two poor. He requested that his socialist daughters in the waris. Reb Shaul comrades award him an exit visa so on to Kobe. Japan, across the Pacific composed a series of short nig he could live in a country where he to San Francisco. and then by train gunim in which he poured out his could practice this religion. The to New York City, where they finally pain. Among the better known of NKVD agent relented, and issued settled in the Williamsburgh section these niggunim are Shomer Yisroel. visas for him and his family. This of Brooklyn. At the start of this trip, Reb Shaul began composing a was followed by the issuing of many 18. Also told by Ben~Zton Shenker exit visas to a number of Polish niggun to the text of Min Hamei 19. When Reb Shaul discovered, just before tzar, as a musical diary of his travels Pesach, 5705, that his oldest daughter had refugees-including talmidim of survived the war. along with her daughter, he the Mlrrer Yeshiva and Yeshivas and travails. In one par! of the composed eight niggunim In honor of the Chachmel Lublin. as well as Rabbi niggun. he musically describes the approaching Yom Tov. Shimon Sholom Kalish-the Amshinover Rebbe17, Rabbi Aharon Kotler. and Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Bloch n:i1:i~ om:i1. Reb Shaul and his family travelled by rail across Russia to Vladivostok.
16. The purpose of a exit visa was to be able to travel through Russia, enroute to a further destination. Many refugees miraculously obtalned entry visas to Cuba. Curacao, Costa Rtca, Paraguay and other Latin American countries. Most holders of exit visas crossed Russia, only to be caught in Japan after Pearl Harbor. forcing them to remain in the realm of the Japanese Empire-notably. Shanghai. 17. Reh Shaul had a very warm friendship with the Amshlnover Rebbe in Poland prior to their sojourn in Vilna-a friendship that was renewed In the United States. Before Reb Shaul went to Eretz Yisroel, the Amshinover Rebbe came for an eight hour visit--just to say good-bye. When oneofRebShauJ'ssons got married in the United States. after Reb Shaul's petim, the Amshlnover At the Siyum Sefer Torah in Yeshiva Chachmei Lublin, in honor qf the late Rabbi Meir Shapiro Rebbe remained for the entire wedding. It was '"~t. 1. Rabbi Menachem Ziemba, 2. Rabbi Moshe Boyahner, 3. Reb Shaul, 4. one qf his rare for him to stay beyond the chupa. {Told by sons. 5. Sadigerer Rebbe, Reh Mordechai Sholem Yoseif (formerly Qf Crown Heights} oJ);:n Ben Zion Shenker.) n:n:i;.
28 The Jewish Observer. February 1988 Lo Lemaaneinu20, Vkorev Pezu reinu, and Habeit Mishomayim U'reh. Dovid Hamelech says in FREEDA® sine!' 1928 Tehilim: "He took note when they were in distress, when He heard their outciy (rina- literally, their song)" (Tehillim 106,44). When the VITAMINS Jew has a problem, he is so THE BEST IN THE VITAMIN WORLD confident of G-d's mercy, that he sings about His salvation before it happens. He once commented, "Even the Over 250 Vitamins, Minerals and Amino Acids to cover simplest Jew can enter the Heichal all your vitamin needs. Our vitamins are made on the premises under strict pharmaceutical and kashrus stand Hanegina-The Heavenly Palace of ards. Freeda Vitamins are parve and vegetarian and are Song. Popular Wisdom has it that under the Rabbinical Supervision of The Orthodox Union the Heichal Hanegina is next to the and Rabbi Mordechai Kohn from New Square, N.Y. Heichal Hateshuva, I say that the •no !iugar • no sulfates • no coal tar dyes two are identical: A Jew is inspired • no starch • no salt filler • no animal stearates to do teshuva through a niggun. ... Pleas€' write for our brochure and complimentary article on, "How To Get Enough Calcium". A Jew even says viddui (confession) With a niggun." Reb Shaul was in constant Send for free brochure on FREEDA VITAMINS contact With many gedolim He con tinued his involvement in Agudath FREEDlBoyan, Ko pishnitz and Stalin, m1~7 omo1, and renewed his friendship With the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Shneersohn '""· The Alumni Association Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner '""· of Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin, of spent many hours in private discussion With Reb Shaul'1 • Rabbi Yeshivas MirVerushalayim Shraga Feivel Mendelowitz '"" became veiy close With Reb Shaul, would like to express its gratitude to the public and encouraged the talmidim of for its warm welcome and strong support Mesivta Torah Vodaath to attend his throughout its first year tisch22• A group of Torah Vodaath We take this opportunity to inform our talmidim visited him eveiy Rosh friends and well-wishers that our office has been Chodesh when he would say divrei Torah for them, even though he did authorized by the Hanhala of the Yeshiva not make a public Seudas Rosh as its sole representative in the U.S. Chodesh Reb Shaul spent summers in the Please direct all correspondence and donations for Catskill Mountains as a private Yeshivas Mir Yerusholayim to: citizen. This was a far ciy from the pre-World War II days, when he was YESHIVAS MIR YERUSHALAYIM or to YESHIVAS MIR Office of the Alumni PO Box 5022 1441 52nd Street Rechov Beit Y1srael 3 20. This niggun was sung for the first time at Brooklyn. NY 11219 Jerusalem the Chanukas Habayls (dedication) of the Lubav:itcherYeshlva building on Bedford Avenue and Dean Street in Brooklyn. 21. Rabbi Hutner had been close with Reb Shaul No other office or representative in Poland, before he went to Eret2 Yisroel. Rabbi Chaim Yitzchok Taub remembers Rabbi Hutner is authorized to accept contributions as a frequent Visitor to his father in Otvotzk. for \eshivas Mir \erushalayim. 22. Two talmidlm of Rabbi MendeloWitz ~"~t became sons-in-law to Reb Shaul: Rabbi Avrohom Tzvi Shenker and Rabbi Efroim Rosen.
The Jewish Observer, February 1988 29 While travelling about America to give comfort to those who, like himself, had lost loved ones in the War, Reb Shaul composed a series of short Nigunnim in which he poured out his pain. refused entrance into all the hotels for shirayim, and cut very deeply for eight hours. Little did the people in Krenitz-a resort-town in into his hand. When the people know that Reb Shaul was suffering Poland-due to his reputation: the around him were unable to stop the from advanced arteriosclerosis. The hotels where Reb Shaul visited bleeding, Reb Shaul asked for a bowl only visible symptom, which no one inevitably suffered damage due to of "zeks-un-neintziger' (pure grain had diagnosed at the time, was the crush of the crowds he alcohol) into which he dipped his apparent in how he wrote his divrei attracted.23 hand until the bleeding stopped. He Torah in a composition book on In 5707. Reb Shaul finally was refused to leave the tisch, so as not Motza'ei Shabbosos-as was his able to fulfill his lifelong dream. On to disappoint the people who had custom after Havdala every week. 15 Tammuz. 5707, he landed in come. The sting of alcohol on the Over the years, the wrtting became Eretz Yisroel and settled in Tel Aviv. cut must have been very painful progressively more difficult to read. Rabbi Yitzchak:Yedidya Frankel J">i, yet there was absolutely no change Many notebooks of these wrttings late Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, recalled of expression on Reb Shaul's face are currently being worked upon. for the writer how at the kabbolas during this whole procedure. prior to publication, projected for ponim (reception) for Reb Shaul, he the near future. On Friday night, 16 was slicing a challa to be given out FAREWELL WITH Kislev, 5708, Reb Shaul became ill TEFILLAAND SONG and was semi-conscious. (This was 23. Rabbi Yitzchok Taub recalls a Shabbos that the day of the UN partition vote Nov his father spent in Warsaw: the chassidim had mim Noraim of 5708. Reb ember 29. 1947, and the creation of admission-tlckets printed for all the tischen (Warsaw had an eiruv that had been set up by Shaul was the shaliach the state oflsrael.) The people in the the Chiddushei Harim and used by all the Y:tzibbur. as always. On Ho room noticed him tapping his chassidim). Not only were tickets purchasers shanna Rabba, his sixty-first "scalped," but someone even printed counterfeit fingers rhythmically and humming tickets! birthday, he held an all-night tiSch a niggun. On Shabbos morning, Reb Shaul was niftar. When Reb Shraga Feivel Mendelowitz heard of Reb Shaul's petira, he told Ben-Zion The Parents' Committee of Yeshiva Shenker, "I wish that I'll be able to sing before my passing."24 Harbotzas Torah Zichron Schneur Reb Shaul was accustomed to Under Auspices Of Rav Yekusiel Bittersfeld N"IJ>7w constantly learn through Tanach. A few days before his petira, the last is pleased to announce time he had looked in his little The Addition Of A New Grade For The Coming Zman Tanach, he left the seferopen to the Registration Is Now Open For 8th Grade, last page of Zecharia where it is wrttten that Moshiach will stop at High School (fully accredited) Bais Medrash and Kolle! Har Hazeisim. The family had • DORMITORY • Fully supervised for in and out of town boys wanted to bury Reb Shaul on Har • TRANSPORTATION • F0r all areas of Brooklyn Hazeisim. but it was dangerous to • MEALS • MEALS• Three nutritious meals daily travel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. With the addition of our two new Mesivta classes, the Yeshiva has since the Arabs were rtoting over the United Nations partition vote. That grown and developed remarkably. We hope Tl"'K that for the coming Zman, we will be in our completely renovated facilities at Motza'ei Shabbos. the Chazon !sh 1049 East 15th Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. We look forward to continued was consulted. and he advised, "A success to grow from strength to strength ... Jew who, after so many trials and tribulations, came to Eretz YiSroel to die, should be buried on Har PARENTS COMMITIEE: Julius Adler, Menachem Blum, Shaul Braun, Yitzchok Ehrenfeld, Rabbi Yeshaya Goldberg, Rav Sinai Halberstam, Avrohom Shaul Y. Perlstein HazeiSim, regardless of the dangers involved."25 Reb Shaul was taken by For More Information and Bechinos, Please Call Our Office. armored car to Har HazeiSim, and 203 Avenue F, Brooklyn, N.Y. (718) 853-1376 24. Heard from Ben~Zion Shenker.
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A PUZZLING PROMISE that it will not appeal to anyone else. This is an unusual promise that ree times a year, during the begs for clarification. ilgrimage festivals of Pesach, The Hebrew verb used here is nShavuos, and Succos, every lachmod-to covet, to want for Jew who owns land in Eretz Yisroel oneself that which belongs to is commanded to be oleh regel-to another. This same word is used in ascend to Jerusalem and bring the Asseres Hadibros (Decalogue) in karbanos in the Beis Hamikdash, one of the most difficult command the Holy Temple. Should he be con ments, "Lo sachmod.,, ,"The Torah cerned that in his absence, someone demands of the Jew that he not might seize his property, he is We may expect an assurance from desire (and take steps to make his reassured by a Divine promise: ", .. G-d that if we act in accordance with own) anything that belongs to his and no man shall covet your Land, His commandments, we will merit fellow. Our initial response to such when you ascend to appear before dominion over the Land, and victory a dictum is surprise. After all, G-d the L-rd your G-d three times a year" over any enemy who seeks to take can demand from us that we not (Shemos 34, 24). this territory from our hands. But take something that belongs to We all know that the Land oflsrael this particular verse in the Torah another, telling us that we must was chosen for us millennia ago, and cites a further promise, beyond as control our actions. But here He in that the Almighty promised our surance of continued possession, effect is legislating that we control forefathers that we would inherit it that no one will even desire our land, our inner desires! ls it so dreadful
The Jewish Observer, February 1988 33 Beyond assurance of continued possession of the Land, the Thrah promises that no one will even desire our land an unusual promise that begs for clarification. if I admire my neighbor's original is his wife, his home, or his money. Land of Israel was singled out. as oil painting. and ask him to sell it Since Divine Providence assigned it was the Jewish nation. for a unique to me? I'm not stealtng it. I only want to another. it is by definition un purpose. It is. in fact. the purpose to own it in a legal fashion. I can't desirable to us. That which belongs for which the entire universe was help wanting it, can I? to another will be understood as created: the utilization of all unsuitable to me. Once something material and physical phenomena is inappropriate for me. I lose for spiritual goals. Other groups had BEYOND ENVY interest in it. and do not covet it at Jong ago demonstrated their in all. (More familiar to us today than ability to perceive such an objective, abbi Avrohom Ibn Ezra the case of a princess might be an and had insisted on pursuing the explains the rationale for example of a skilled professional and pleasures of the moment. without R this commandment in a his highly specialized machinery. A regard to the ultimate aim of Crea manner that is basic to Torah radiologist will not envy the new tion. By contrast. our Patriarchs thought: The lbn Ezra begins with machinery of the building engineer, and they alone-demonstrated their the parable of a peasant who sees though he may admire it, and capacity to father a people who the princess. If he is a sane man. appreciate its sophistication. It would fathom this principle. and act he will not feel any desire for her, would only be some newly enhanced in accordance with it. Thus was the even if he finds her very beautiful. scanning equipment-which would Jewish nation chosen to receive the He knows that this woman is out be useful to him-that would arouse Torah, blueprint and end-goal of of bounds for him. and that it is with his envy, and give rise to covetous Creation. And the Land of Israel was a peasant girl. not a princess, that ness. Each of us has a tacit destined to be the only place on he will find happiness. Having this awareness of the desirability of the earth suitable for fulfillment of this understanding, he may admire her. tools of his own trade. and a dis end-goal. but he will not covet her for his own. interest in someone else's tools.) So it is here, in this Land, that This is the way the Almighty expects This insight of the lbn Ezra sheds all the occupations and activities of us to regard something He has light on the Torah's promise to the this world can and must be alloted to someone else-whether it people of Israel cited above. The sanctified. Here, and here alone, is there a potential for all activities that are normally associated with the material to be elevated to spirit ual realms. This sanctification of the mundane is represented most concretely by the Land-related mitz I GOT MY JOB vos, and the thrice-yearly pil grimages of all Jews who own land, THROUGH to spend the Festivals in Jerusalem.
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34 The Jewish Obseroer. February 1988 this Land and make it their own. not only fail to be a deterrent to anli italics are Klatzkin's)-an astonish The Torah, however, promises us Semitism, it would have a catas ing thing occurred, immediately. that by utilizing this Land for a trophically opposite effect. And then. The surrounding Arab nations, un unique purpose. qualitatively dif with the establishment of the State willing to let go of this strip ofland ferent from all other lands. we would of Israel. as normal as any state minuscule by comparison with their obviate the desire of others for our could be (with only the most oblique combined territories-attacked our small piece of holy soil. Seeing that reference lo the Almighty in its dec people ferociously. Although we our finest produce was consecrated laration ofindependence)-a nation have been miraculously saved from to the Almighty. rather than to fill determined, apparently "to estab their hands repeatedly over the past our bellies, that the entire operation lish a new definition of Jewish iden four decades, they have not stopped of our society was geared to the ful tity-a secular definition' (ibid, coveting our Land. Which other fillment of spiritual, long-range goals, the peoples of other lands would fail to develop an interest in For the Yeshiva Student and Businessman this Land. They would perceive immediately that this Land is the tool par excellence of our trade the beonstol~ as far from their trade as night from day. And they would, with a dis FOR YOUNG MEN ... AND MEN NOT SO YOUNG interested shrug. turn their backs. So here we have a Divine promise THE BE-ALL AND END ALL IN MALE OUTERWEAR of protection, and irony of ironies, SPORTSWEAR, DRESSWEAR, AND EVEN UNDERWEAR we deduce its converse ... and wit ness its fulfillment! PREPPY SIZE 21 TO MEN'S HARD-TO-FIND SIZES LET OUR TRADEMARK PERSONAL SERVICE NORMALIZATION: A PATH TO SECURITY? GUIDE -BUT NEVER PUSH- YOU 1314 Ave. P (side door) urvey of secular Zionist SUN. TUES. WED. THURS. 11-5 Municipal Parking around the corner FRI. 12-4 iterature, from the writings 718-627-8724 EVES. MON. & WED. 7:30-10 f Pinsker, Herzl, and Achad Ha'am, to the words of Abba Hillel It's worth a trip from anywhere for our Open Motzaei Shabbos, legal Holidays Silver and others decades later, TRADITIONAL and UPDATED collections & Erev Yorn Tov reveals a heavy emphasis on the of coats, suits, sweaters, shirts, slacks and Appointments Welcome theme of normalization. To make much more. We Ship UPS ourselves a nation like all others, many of these thinkers believed, I would cure the malady of anti I ii> Semitism. which had plagued us I a. throughout the years of our 'I :>,, ~ abnormal existence as a people ii "l 0 dispersed among the others, Ci. ,, I 8 Iii clinging to ancient customs, which I ':! I set us apart. Having our land in I ~"' ~"' which to set up. in the words of I @~~ .e. Jacob Klatzkin, "a free national life .a;~:: QJ~ .c ~~~~.c "'~ ... land] to deny any conception of lw::..oCU"O 0 1-<> Q.C .. Jewish identity based on spiritual ls~~-o: criteria" would be the solution to all •E ·~~~~,.._~u;t; ~ ar I= our troubles (The Zionist Idea, l J:,;;'.i:.t:O .! Hertzberg, New York, 1959, p.319). "'l'O oO. ~ ., .. \, i i I e :.'l 8 .!!- During the years before the ·.~,,,, I m '-M i emergence of the independent State --,."~· 11 ;~ of Israel. the devastation of Euro ... ~------· ;pp;~-· I !3 :! "",_0 ~ ,, pean Jewry demonstrated unequi .. 'C SAVE SPACE AT THE PESACH SEDER! I 11 ~ 8 iii ~ vocally that blending into the I w z < ~ w All In One - Lucile'K'aarah Stand I nations by living among them, Keep The K'aarah On Top While Protecting The Matzoh! I ~ intermarrying and dropping all For Wholesale Orders Call: (718) 435.3553 or Write: £ distinguishing observances, would Avallab!e at local Jewish gill shops nrorder direct. I
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nation, founded forty years ago by demonstrate that our goals are in TO RE-ESTABLISH OUR CLAIM the consensus of the united nations any way different from theirs. And (or the United Nations, if you will) when the holiness that for so many ur enemies, we hope and of our planet, is still being chal years has characterized the singular pray-indeed, we trust-will lenged to demonstrate its title to the nature of the capital city, Jerusalem, not take our Land away from land of its inhabitants-even on the seventh day, begins to crack: O us 1"r1. Not ever again. But the challenged as to its veiy light to when those normalcy-seekers of old miselies of their continued desire exist! tiy once again to stlip away that for this Land, which is ours by One might suggest, then, that the which distinguishes Israel from the Divine assignment, cannot be correlation between increased nations: when the public observ dismissed. As long as "Palestinian" desire of other peoples for this Land, ance of the Sabbath comes into terror organtzations function and our failure to use it for its question and religious Jews must broadcasting, publishing, and uniquely assigned end, is there for come out shouting for the sanctity preaching hatred of our people and all to see. The Arabs who lay claim of this holy city-it should surprise proclaiming their "lights" to our to our Land are so far removed from us not at all that the Palestinian Land-we have reason to fear pain the goals-from the veiyway oflife Arabs hurl rocks at Jewish settlers. and loss of precious Jewish lives. associated with it, that they should They are acting in response to a Even though we are miraculously see themselves as peasants who do basic law of nature and human spared the overwhelming brunt of not covet the royal plincess. They psychology: If this Land is a vehicle what such animosity would are. in essence, aliens. Yet they have for a this-worldly secularized normally bring in its wake, our no way of knowing how inapprop existence, it is the tool of their trade, existence continues to be a troubled liate the Land is for the achievement not of ours. In such a context. it is one while hostile neighbors chant. of their goals, for we have failed to we who are the aliens, not they. demonstrate and throw stones. But it is not too late. The Almighty is being patient with us, giving us • Easy commute to NYC Young Israel the chance to re-establish our claim Major Corp. center as a holy nation to a holy Land. This • of means fighting on all fronts at all • Affordable housing times, to counteract with love and Low Taxes concern the ignorance of those who • White Plains see no reason to keep theaters closed • Community Mikvah on the Sabbath day. This means the Day Schools shouldeling of responsibility by all • Rabbi Shmuel Greenberg members of the Torah community, • Kosher Shopping those already living in the Land, and • All religious needs those still outside it. Who but we, 914-949-4742 after all, are in a position to under • Regular ongoing shiurim stand this promise, to appreciate this principle, and to explain the Consider this young, vibrant and growing Jewish community way it operates? This means work with a shul that has B'albatish davening along with shiurim ing arduously not only in times of crisis, but even harder when things in gemorah, chumash, and related religious studies; we are are going "smoothly" to raise the the shul to look at. level of sanctity of the chosen people in the chosen Land. If you like city life with a suburban flavor this is the This is the only route to security and peace, and-more important community you have been looking for. the only way to fulfill the purpose of Creation.
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40 The Jewish Obseruer. February 1988 who they are. With assimilation rampant, cults, missionaries, Letters domestic fights amongst ourselves ... the picture for the "outsiders" Is ••••••••••• to the bleak. If this is the impression that ••••••••••• we give them, then we have already lost half the battle. Editor If we won't help them, who will? If not now, when? YEHOSHUAJACOBOVITZ OUT-OF-TOWN, campus. Who wouldn't want to Kew Garden Hills. NY JUST AROUND THE CORNER "Spend a Shabbos In a Jewish home-price: FREE!" or "Experi· ence the Renaissance of Jewish To the Editor: WHOSE JERUSALEM, INDEED! living-Heavenly credit given. Call. In regard to Eliyahu Mayer's "Di· ..." There are many more ideas. lemma of an Out-of Towner" (Oct. Why not make it a collective shul To the Editor: '87), may I suggest some solutions. effort? One Shabbos in a Torah The lesson that I learn from the The truth of the matter ls that the home Is worth more than two ongoing conflict between the dilemma is not restricted to those semesters of a comparative religion secularists and chareidim in Jeru· who have grown up out-of-town. Our course (not a bad idea for another salem differs from that which Ezriel chachamim have said that when flyer!). Toshavi concludes In your Oct. '87 Elkana (an out-of-towner) went to Let's not forget senior citizens. Do issue, ('Whose Jerusalem?"). be oleh l'regel to Shilo he would aJ. you know how many elderly Jews The entire episode (i.e. the open ways travel a different route, to there are in the New York area alone ing of movie houses) would not have arouse the curiosity of the plain folk, who are locked up in their homes, taken place if the leaders of all who would ask him where he is afraid even to get something to eat? segments of Orthodoxy (who joined going, and then follow him to the Contact your local Tomchei in prayer at the Kosel Maaravi) could MikdaslL Shabbos for these forgotten ones. agree on a candidate to oppose Apparently then-as now-many This dilemma, though, is not just Kollek, and would urge their Jews did not know much of Yaha· for special individuals; it affects all followers to vote. dus-so much so. that they forgot of Kial Yisroel. Our generation is Let us not shift the blame onto about coming to visit the Mikdash! perhaps being given one last chance someone who is alien to us. ... Also, to be mekarev someone, we to reach out to our lost brothers and 1lnlN O>O\'JN '~N should not wait for them to come sisters. The next generation of ABRAHAM DICKER to us, but we must go out of our unaffiliated Jews will not even know Brooklyn. N. Y. way and reach out to them. as did Elkana. Today, in America, the largest SINGLE & DOUBLE denomination of Judaism is the BREASTED MEN'S SUITS FE IVEL branch of "unaffiliated Judaism." There's Jewish gold out there for the KlRSHENBAUM taking-one need only stretch forth SILBIGER'S Ph.D. his/her hand and find it. Most of us do not have to go out-of-town to •Slacks be mekarev someone; the un Registered Investment Adviser affiliated are probably right there in • Rainwear your own neighborhood ... so close, • All Wool Coats yet so far. Your own neighbors would • Sports Jackets MONEY MANAGEMENT probably would be tickled pink AND FINANCIAL ADVISING should you extend them a Shabbos Unbelievable Prices invitation. They may even finally brace themselves and ask you about Fees only. those exotic sounding Jewish songs 1769 51 St.. Brooklyn. NY you sing every Friday night. (718) 854·1196 No sales Furthermore, your local college Daily 4:00 p.m. · 9:00 p.m. or commissions. has probably more Jewish kids from Sunday All Day out-of-town than you realize! You would be amazed what a plain sign Silbiger Suits You Best (914) 352~1919 can do when hung up around
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The Jewish Observer, February 1988 43 INDEX TO ARTICLES THE JEWISH OBSERVER VOL. XX Nos. 1-10 SUBJECTS Can Help/Eliezer Gillig, (P.S.), May '87; Rabbi A Scheinman, Sept. '87; Rabbi Activism Using Secular Government to "Is {S)he a Baal{as) Teshuva?"/Anon., Abba's Esrog Tree/Rabbi Nesanel Promote Religious Interests/Chaim {P.S.), May '87;ABeginner, But Just Like Kasnett, Oct. '87; Learning from a Dovid Zwiebel. Feb. '87; The Drive for the Rest of Us/Elchonon Nakdimen. Computer/David Schaps, Oct.'87; Justice versus a Sense of Res {L.E), Dec. '87; Differences Make A Dif Quarrels of a Secularized Jew/Sieg ponsibility/Dr. David Kranzler. May '87; ference/Yosef Halevi Zorkin, (L.E.), Dec. mund Forst. Nov. '87; One Second to Go, Talking to the Russians, (S.L.), Jan. '88 '87 (S.L.), Jan. '88: Responding to Religious Aftluence Are We Still in Golus,/Rabbi Children Building a Ghetto of Our Own/ Crises: Reacting to Sypmtoms or Aaron M. Brafman. Feb. '87; A Nation Mrs. Krohn, Apr. '87 Treating the Cause?/Rabbi Avraham of Devourers/David Schaps, Summer Chinuch An Appreciation of Rebbetzin Pam. Jan. '88 '87 Kaplan n"}'/Devora Kitevits, Feb. '87: Halacha Bungalow Judaism A Guide to Agudath Israel Using Secular Government Talking it Out Or Getting tncers/Betty Safe and Kosher Weekends/Rabbi H. to Promote Religious Interests/Chaim Adler, {L.E.), Mar. '87; A "Book" For the David, Summer '87 Dovid Zwiebel, Feb. '87 Children of the People of the Book/Dr. Hat.zala {Reselle) The Drive for Justice Allya Where Does A Russian Jew Find Bernard fryshman, (S.L.), Jan. '88 versus a Sense of Responsibility/Dr. Refuge/(S.L.), Apr. '87 Conservative Judaism Dear Rabbi Gordis/ David Kranzler. May '87; Vienna Aliya and Absorption Coming Home/ Rabbi Michael Katz, (S.L.), Dec. '87 Revisited/Louis Glueck, Erwin Sala Saralie Faivelson. May '87 Dialogue He Loves Me. He Loves Me Not. . ./ mon, Miriam Stark Zakon. Nov. '87 Automation The Impact of Automation on Rabbi Nosson Scherman. Nov. '87 History To Distinguish Between Light and the Torah World/Eliezer Bruckstein, Festivals and Fastdays Pesach: Rejuvena Darkness/Rabbi Simon Schwab, Sept. '87~ Learning from a Computer/ tion.And Renewal/Rabbi A Scheinman, Summer'87 David Schaps, Oct. '87 Mar. '87; To Merit A Swift Redemption Interfaith He Loves Me. He Loves Me Not. . ./ Books in Review Tractate Ta'anis/ Timely. Even Early, But Not Premature/ Rabbi Nosson Scherman, Nov. '87 Nachman Cohen. Apr. '87; Collected Rabbi Avraham Pam, Mar. '87; Tisha Israel Shmitta in Israel Today/Nisson Writings of Rabbi Samson Raphael B'Av A "Moed" of Redemption/Rabbi Wolpin, Apr. '87: Portrait of A Rebbe HirschApr. "87: Bava Metziah/Rabbi A Yissochor Dov Loriner, Summer '87: Maran Hagaon Rabbi Nochum Partzo Y. Rosenberg, Apr. '87; Waking Up "For You, G-d, are true and Your word vitz 'J"::n/Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugmann, Jewish /Uri Zohar, Apr. '87; Ways of is true and endures forever"/Rabbi A Dec. '87; Yossel the Violin Player/Galla Peace/Rabbi David Vinitsky. Apr. '87; Scheinman, Sept. '87; Rabbi Abba's Berry. Dec. '87 Gateway to the Talmud/Rabbi Meir Zvi Esrog Tree/Rabbi Nesanel Kasnett, Oct. Israel Education Kitzutzim: Of Statistics Bergman, Apr. '87;A Time for All Things: '87; Chanuka A Victory of lliumination/ and Survival/ (S.L.), Oct. '87 The Weekly Portion, a New Dimension/ Rabbi Shaul Kagan, Dec. '87 Israel Politics Politics of Religious Subter Nachman Cohen, Apr. ·87; Break Golus Are We Still in Golus/Rabbi Aaron fuge/Ezriel Toshavi, (P.S.), Apr. '87; through to Learning Gemora/Zvi Zobin, M. Brafman. Feb. '87; The Challenges Where Does A Russian Jew Find Refuge/ Apr. '87; Shevi'is (Zera'im III. 6)/Rabbis of Our Current Golus/Rabbi Elya Svei, {S.L.). Apr. '87; Israel's Yeshivas and the Rabinovitch, and Goldwurm, Apr. '87; Jan. '88; Responding to Religious Jewish Agency's Zionist Loyalty Oath/ Aiding Talmud Study/Aryeh Carmell, Crises: Reacting to Symptoms or Ezriel ToshavJ, Summer '87: The Zionist Apr. '87; My Special Friend/F1oreva G. Treating the Cause?/Rabbi Avraham Congress Elections: The Vote That Was Cohen, Summer '87; A Hanukkiyah for Pam. Jan. '88 Not Cast/Nisson Wolpin, Sept. '87; State Dina/F1oreva G. Cohen. Summer '87; Government Aid Using Secular Govern of the State/Rabbi Joseph Elias, Oct. The StoryofReb Ytsrael Salanter/Rabbi ment to Promote Religious Interests/ '87; Kitzutzim: Of Statistics and Shimon Finkelman. Summer '87; Chaim Dovid Zwiebel. Feb. '87 Survival/ (S.L.), Oct. '87 Jerusalem Gems/Rabbi Shlomo Zal General Studies General Studies in the Israel*Religion Israel: Politics of Religious man Sonnenfeld. Summer '87; Olo Yeshiva-By a Non-Jew/Joseph A Feld, Subterfuge/Ezrtel Toshavi, (P.S.). Apr. meinu Gems, Stories for All Year (L.E.). Feb. '87: A Teacher Ask8' Can '87; Israel's Yeshivos and the Jewish Round/Rabbi Berel Merling, Summer Jewish Literature Supersede the Agency's Zionist Loyalty Oath/Ezrtel '87; The Ten Tests of Abraham/Sho Classics?/Faiga Diskind. Mar. '87 Toshavi, Summer '87; Whose Jeru shana Lepon, Summer '87; The Mentch Hashkafa Are We Still in Golus./Rabbl salem: City of Sanctity-Under Siege/ kins Make Shabbos/Chaya Leah Roth Aaron M. Brafman, Feb. '87; Pesach: Ezriel Toshavi, Oct. '87; Kitzutzim: Of stein, Summer '87; The Artscroll Youth Rejuvenation And Renewal/Rabbi A. Statistics and Survival/(S.L.), Oct. '87 Hagaddah/Rabbis Nasson and Yitzchok Scheinman, Mar. '87; To Merit A Swift Israel Religious Strife Responding to Zev Scherman, Summer '87; The Gift Redemption Timely, Even Early, But Not Religious Crises: Reacting to Symptoms that Grew/Yaffa Ganz. Summer '87; Premature/Rabbi Avraham Pam. Mar. or Treating the Cause?/Rabbi Avraham Anatomy of a Search/Akiva Tatz. Oct. '87: To Distinguish Between Light and Pam, Jan. '88 '87; Forever My Jerusalem/Puah Darkness/Rabbi Simon Schwab. Sum Jewish Agency Israel's Yeshivos and the Shteiner, Oct. '87; The Gate Behind the mer '87; A Nation of Devourers/David Jewish Agency's Zionist Loyalty Oath/ Wall. a Pilgrimage to Jerusalem/Samuel Schaps, Summer '87; Brotherly Love Ezriel Toshavi, Summer '87 Heilman, Oct. '87: Heil Kahane/Yair and Shmittah/ (P.S.), Summer '87; Jews in Europe An Appreciation of Kotler, Oct. '87; Evolution: A Theory in Judgment in the Spotlight: A Lesson in Rebbetzin Kaplan n"YDevora Kitevits. Crisis/Michael Denton, Dec. '87; Torah Midas Hadin/Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Feb. "87; Rabbi Malkiel Tenenbaum Rav and Science/Leo Levi, Dec. '87 Summer '87; "For You, G-d, are true and of Lomza/Chaim Shapiro, Mar. '87 Baalei Teshuva There Are Some Ways You Your word is true and endures forever"/ Vienna Revisited/Louis Glueck, EJ:Win
44 The Jewish Obseroer, Febmary 1988 Sa1amon, Miriam Stark Zakon, Nov. '87; or Family Maker/ (S.L.), Nov. '87 Reh Mendel Brachfeld 'J"::n/Dr. Aaron Rabbi YaakovYitzchok Ruderman ':Jw:::n/ Mishna Celebrating the Siyum Hashas of Twerskl, Oct. '87; Rabbi Yaakov Yitz Nisson Wolpin, Nov. '87 the Mishna Yomis/Michoel Robinson, chok Ruderman ':J":::n/Nisson Wolpin, Jews in Israel Women at the Western Wall/ Summer'87 Nov. '87; Portrait of A Rebbe Maran Arleen Naomi Habshush. Mar. '87; "Reb Mitzva Observance Shmitta in Israel Hagaon Rabbi Nochum Partzovitz ')w:n/ Binyamin the Tzaddik''Rabbi Hillel Today/Nisson Wolpin. Apr. '87 Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Klugmann. Dec. '87 Goldberg. Mar. '87 Music Set the Record Straight/Breindy Pluralism One People, One Torah. One Jews in the U.S.A. Yesharim Darchei Leizerson, (L.E.). May '87; Music: To Voice/Nisson Wolpin, May '87; The RCA Hashem/Rabbi Hillel Goldberg. Feb. '87; Tame the Heart or Incite the Beast?/ and the "Torah Community" /Rabbi Building a Ghetto of Our Own/Mrs. Avi Menashe, Jan. '88 Fabian Schonfeld, (L.E.), Nov. '87 Krohn, Apr. '87; Using Secular Mussar "Reb Binyamin the Tzaddik" I Poetry Women at the Western Wall/ Arleen Government to Promote Religious Rabbi Hillel Goldberg, Mar. '87 Naomi Habshush, Mar. '87 Interests/Chaim DovidZwiebel. Feb.'87; Narrative Yossel the Violin Player/Galia Psychology The Nature of a Torah 'Shiur' Enjoyment/Gary Rosenblatt. Beny, Dec. '87 Psychology/Rabbi Mosheh Y'chiail Feb. '87; Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchok Nazi Germany The Drive for Justice versus Friedman. Dec. '87 Ruderman ':J"::n/Nisson Wolpin, Nov. '87; a Sense of Responsibility/Dr. David Review Article State of the State/Rabbi Torah BaMidbar/Binyamin Friedman, Kranzler, May '87 Joseph Elias, Oct. '87 Jan. '88: Raising a Family "Out-of Outreach There Are Some Ways You Can Reform To Distinguish Between Light and Town"/Rabbi Ze'ev Kraines. (P.S.), Jan. Help/Eliezer Gillig, (P.S.), May '87; Reb Darkness/Rabbi Simon Schwab, '88; A "Book" for the Children of the Moshe and Me/Rabb!Avi Shafran, Sept. Summer'87 People of the Book/Dr. Bernard '87; Torah BaMidbar/Binyamin Fried Reach Out Yesharim Darchei Hashem/ Fryshman. (S.L.). Jan. '88: The Next man, Jan. '88 Rabbi Hillel Goldberg, Feb. '87 Challenge/Rabbi Yitzchok Alster, Jan. Out of Town Yeshorim Darchei Hashem/ Rabbinate U.S.A. One People, One Torah, '88 Rabbi Hillel Goldberg. Feb. '87; The One Voice/Nisson Wolpin, May '87; The Kashrus Food, Food, Food A Matter of Dilemma of an Out-of-Towner Living In RCA and the "Torah Community"I Taste/ {S.L.), Apr. '87; The Nine Days: Town/Eliyahu Mayer, Oct. '87; Trans Rabbi Fabian Schonfeld, IL.E.), Nov. '87 My Introduction to Industrial Kashrus/ ferring "Out-Of-Town" to the Big City/ Social Comment Are We Still in Golus, I Rabbi Gershon Mark. Sept. '87; N.Z. Levy. (L.E.), Jan. '88: Raising a Rabbi Aaron M. Brafman, Feb.'87; Food, Condemnation of "Rabbi Alter" Harsh Family "Out-of Town"/Rabbi Ze'ev Food, Food A Matter of Taste/ (S.L.), Apr. and Unjust/Rabbi Berel Broyde, (L.E.), Kraines, (P.S.), Jan. '88; Torah '87; A Nation of Devourers/David Nov. '87 BaMidbar/Binyamin Friedman, Jan. Schaps. Summer '87; Bungalow Juda Lobbying Using Secular Government to '88 ism A Guide to Safe and Kosher Promote Religious Interests/Chaim Personalities An Appreciation of Weekends/Rabbi H. David, Summer '87; Dovid Zwiebel. Feb. '87 Rebbetzin Kaplan n"YDevora Kitevits, The Impact of Automation on the Torah Literature A Teacher Asks: Can 'Jewish Feb. '87; Rabbi Malkiel Tenenbaum Rav World/Eliezer Bruckstein, Sept. '87: A Literature Supersede the Classics?/ of Lomza/Chaim Shapiro, Mar. '87; Very Immodest Proposal/Oct. '87; The Faiga Diskind, Mar. '87 Rebbetzin Chana Perel Kotler A"H/ Dilemma of an Out-of-Towner Living In Marriage Love and Marriage and Honor/ Chaya Baumwolspiner, May '87; A Town/Eliyah u Mayer, Oct. '87: A S.N., (S.L.), Feb. '87; Shidduch Breaker Window to Rashi The Life and Work of Chessed Shel Emes/Rabbi Moshe
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The Jewish Obseroer, February 1988 45 Heinemann. Dec. '87; Music: To Tame Yeshiva Education General Studies in the versus a Sense of Responsibility, May the Heart or Incite the Beast?/Avi Yeshiva-By a Non-Jew/Joseph A Feld. '87 Menashe, Jan. '88: A "Book" for the (L.E.J, Feb. "87: A Teacher Asks: Can Krohn, Mrs. Edith, Building a Ghetto of Children of the People of the Book/Dr. Jewish Literature Supersede the Our Own, Apr. '87 Bernard Fryshman, (S.L.). Jan. 0 88; Classics?/Faiga Diskind, Mar. '87: Loriner, Rabbi Yissochor Dov, Tisha B"Av Raising a Family "Out-of Town"/Rabbi Rabbi YaakovYitzchok Ruderman 'J'''::i.t/ A "Moed" of Redemption. Summer '87 Ze'ev Kraines, (P.S.), Jan. '88; A .. Shver Nissan Wolpin, Nov. '87: Portrait of A Mark, Rabbi Gershon, TI1e Nine Days: My Laybin"/Yehuda Sundack. Jan. '88; The Rebbe Maran Hagaon Rabbi Nochum Introduction to Industrial Kashrus, Next Challenge/Rabbi Yitzchok Alstcr. Partzovitz ?"'::i.t/Rabbi Eliyahu Meir Sept. '87 Jan. '88 Klugmann, Dec. '87 Mayer, Eliyahu, The Dilemma of an Out Secularism Quarrels of a Secularized JewI Zionism Israel's Yeshivas and the Jewish of-Towner Living In-Town. Oct. '87 Siegmund Forst/Nov. '87 Agency's Zionist Loyalty. Oath/Eziiel Menashe, Avi, Music: To Tame the Heart Shmitt.a Shmitta in Israel Today/Nissan Toshavi, Summer '87; The Zionist or Incite the Beast?,Jan. '88 Wolpin, Apr. '87 Congress Elections: The Vote That Was Pam, Rabbi Avraham. To Merit A Swift Shabbos Whose Jerusalem: City of Not Cast/Nisson Wolpin, Sept. "87; Redemption Timely, Even Early, But Not Sanctity-Under Siege/Ezriel 'foshavi, Premature, Mar. '87; Responding to Oct. '87 Religious Crises: Reacting to Symptoms Soviet Jewry Where Does A Russian Jew or Treating the Cause?, Jan. '88 Find Refuge/ (S.L.), Apr. '87; Coming Robinson, Michoel, Celebrating the Home/Saralie Faivelson, May '87; Siyum Hashas of the Mishna Yomis, Talking to the Russians. (S.L.), Jan. '88 Summer'87 Speech Talking it Out Or Getting Ulcers/ AUTHORS Rosenblatt. Gary, "Shiur· Enjoyment. Feb. Betty Adler, IL.E.), Mar. '87 '87 Science and Religion Review Article, Dec. Salamon, Erwin, Vienna Revisitied, '87: Evolution: A Theory in Crisis/ Alster, Rabbi Yitzchok, The Next Chal Nov.'87 Michael Denton, (B.R.l. Dec. '87: The lenge, Jan. '88 Schaps, David, A Nation of Devourers, Nature of a Torah Psychology/Rabbi Baumwolspiner. Chaya, Rebbetzin Chana Summer '87; Learning from a Mosheh Y'chiail Friedman, Dec. '87 Pere! Kotler A"H, May ·37 Computer, Oct. '87 Translation and Adaptation To Merit A Berry, Galla, Yossel the Violin Player. Dec. Scheinman, Rabbi A., Pesach: Rejuvena Swift Redemption Timely, Even Early. '87 tion And Renewal, Mar. '87; "'For You, But Not Premature/Rabbi Avraham Brafman, Rabbi Aaron M., Are We Still in G-d, are true and Your word is true and Pam, Mar. '87; Judgment in the Golus. Feb. '87 endures forever". Sept. '87 Spotlight: A Lesson in Midas Hadin/ Bruckstein, Eliezer, The Impact of Scherman, Rabbi Nosson, He Loves Me. Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Summer ·87: The Automation on the Torah World. Sept. He Loves Me Not. ... Nov. '87 Challenges of Our Current Golus/Rabbi '87 Schwab, Rabbi Simon, To Distinguish Elya Svei, Jan. '88: Responding to David, Rabbi H., Bungalow Judaism A Between Light and Darkness. Summer Religious Crises: Reacting to Symptoms Guide to Safe and Kosher Weekends, '87 or Treating the Cause?/Rabbi Avraham Summer·s7 Shafran, Rabbi Avi, Reb Moshe and Me, Pam. Jan. '88 Diskind, Faiga, A Teacher Asks: Can Sept. '87 Torah Education 'Shiur' Enjoyment/Gary Jewish Literature Supersede the Chaim Shapiro, Rabbi Malkiel Tenenbaum Rosenblatt. Feb. '87; An Appreciation of Classics?, Mar. '87 Rav of Lomza, Mar. '87 Rebbetzin Kaplan il"Y/Devora Kitevits, Elias, Rabbi Joseph, State of the State, Oct. Sundack, Yehuda, A "Shver Laybin", Jan. Feb. '87; Rebbetzin Chana Pere] Kotler '87 '88 A"H/Chaya Baumwolspiner, May '87: A Faivelson, Saralie, Coming Home. May '87 Svei, Rabbi Elya, The Challenges of Our "Book" for the Children of the People Forst. Siegmund Quarrels of a Secularized Current Golus, (based on address), Jan. of the BoGk/Dr. Bernard Fryshman, Jew, Nov. '87 '88 (S.L.). Jan. '88; Responding to Religious Fried.man, Binyamin, Torah BaMidbar, Toshavi, Ezriel, (P.S.), Israel: Politics of Crises: Reacting to Symptoms or Jan. '88 Religious Subterfuge. Apr. '87: Israers Treating the Cause?/Rabbi Avraham Friedman, Rabbi Mosheh Y'chlail, The Yeshivos and the Jewish Agency's Pam, Jan. '88 Nature of a Torah Psychology, Dec. '87 Zionist Loyalty Oath , Summer "87: Tehillim But Why Tehillim/Devora Kramer, Ftyshman, Dr. Bernard, (S.L.), A "Book" Whose Jerusalem: City of Sanctity Summer'87 for the Children of the People of the Under Siege, Oct. ·37 Torah Study Celebrating the Siyum Book. Jan. '88 Twerski. Dr. Aaron, A Window to Rashi: Hashas of the Mishna Yomis/Michoel Gillig, Eliezer, (P.S.). There Are Some Ways The Life and Work of Reb Mendel Robinson. Summer '87: The Impact of You Can Help, May '87 Brachfeld ?"°::i.i, Oct. '87 Automation on the Torah World/Eliezer Glueck, Louis, Vienna Revisited, Nov. '87 Wolbe, Rabbi Shlomo, Judgment in the Bruckstein, Sept. '87;A "Shver Laybin"/ Goldberg, Rabbi Hillel, Yesharim Darchei Spotlight: A Lesson in Midas Hadin, Yehuda Stindack. Jan. '88: The Next Hashem, Feb. '87: "Reh Binyamin the Summer'87 Challenge/Rabbi Yitzchok Alster. Jan. Tzaddik", Mar. '87 Wolpin, Nisson, Where Does A Russian '88 Habshush, Arleen Naomi. (POEM) Women Jew Find Refuge, {S.L.J,Apr. '87;Shmitta Tay Sachs Shidduch Breaker or Family at the Western Wall, Mar. '87 ln Israel Today, Apr. "87: Food, Food. Maker/ (S.L.), Nov. '87 Heinemann, Rabbi Moshe, A Chessed Shel Food: A Matter of Taste, (S.L.), Apr. '87; Women An Appreciation of Rebbetzin Emes. Dec. '87 One People, One Torah. One Voice, May Kaplan i"l"}!/Devora Kitevits. Feb. '87; Kagan, Rabbi Shaul, Chanuka A Victory '87; Kitzutzim: Of Statistics and Rebbetzin Chana Perel Kotler A.. H/ of Illumination, Dec. '87 Survival, IS.L.), Oct. '87; Rabbi Yaakov Chaya Baumwolspiner, May '87: But Kasnett, Rabbi Nesanel, Rabbi Abba's Yitzchok Ruderman '"°::i.~, Nov. ·s1; Why Tehillim/Devora Kramer, Summer Esrog Tree. Oct. '87 Shidduch Breaker or Family Maker. '87 Katz, Rabbi Michael, (S.L.1, Dear Rabbi (S.L.), Nov. '87; The Zionist Congress Weddings A Very Immodest Proposal/Oct. Gordis, Dec. '87 Elections: The Vote That Was Not Cast, '87;A Chessed Shel Emes/Rabbi Moshe Klugmann, Rabbi Eliyahu Meir, Portrait Sept. '87: Talking to the Russians, (S.L.), Heinemann, Dec. '87 of A Rebbe , Maran Hagaon Rabbi Jan. '88; One Second to Go, (S.L.), Jan. World War Il Judgment in the Spotlight: Nochum Partzovitz ? 11 !f~. Dec. '87 '88 A Lesson in MidasHadin/Rabbi Shlomo Kraines, Rabbi Ze'ev, (P.S.), Raising a Zakon, Miriam Stark, Vienna Revisited, Wolbe. Summer '87 Family ··out-of Town'", Jan. ·s8 Nov. ·37 Yeshivos Israel's Yeshivas and the Jewish Kram.er, Devora, But Why Tehillim. Sum Zwiebel, Chaim Dovid, Using Secular Agency's Zionist Loyalty Oath/Ezriel mer '87 Government to Promote Religious Toshavi, Summer '87 Kranzler, Dr. David, The Drive for Justice Interests. Feb. '87
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