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Download (PDF, 2.02MB) ELUL 5729 / SEPTEMBER 196S VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2 THE FIFTY CENTS Waiting for Moshiach ... - -----·-··--------· ~,., Israel's State of War - Israel's State of Mind The Key to Israel's Security THE JEWISH QBSERVER In this issue ... A JEW LOOKS AT THE WORLD: MAN TOUCHES THE MOON 3 ON OBSCENITY ······················································································· 4 THE NEW IDOLATRY ··········································································· 4 "WHY DIDN'T THEY RESIST?" ................................................... 5 WAITING FoR MosIACH, Y aakov Weinberg .......................................... 6 ISRAEL'S STATE OF WAR - ISRAEL'S STATE OF MIND, Ralph Pelcowitz ...................................................................................................... I 0 FIGHTING FOR SHABBOS ON THE LEGAL FRONT, Judah Dick 14 THE KEY TO IsRAEL's SECURITY, Joseph Elias ................................. 18 A RussIAN JEW AND His TEFILIN, Chaim Shapiro ........................ 23 SECOND LOOKS AT THE JEWISH SCENE: INTER-FAITH AT THE WHITE HOUSE ....................................... 26 THE JEWISH OBSERVER is published THE MIKVAH AT MASSADA ............................................................... 27 monthly, except July and August, by the Agudath Israel of America, 5 Beekman Street, New York, New York 10038. Second class We mourn the passing of postage paid at New York, N. Y. Subscription: $5.00 per year; Two R' YECHESKEL SARNA years, $8.50; Three years, $12.00; outside of the United States, $6.00 Nlii7 ?Nptn> 1i 11N)i1 per year. Single copy, fifty cents. Printed in the U.S.A. 1"1:>"ll7 i''1ll "l:>t Rosh Yeshiva of the Chevroner Yeshiva, RABBI YAAKOV JACOBS one of the outstanding Gedolim of our age, Editor who created the foundation of Torah learning Editorial Board in the New Yishuv. DR. ERNEST L. BODENHEIMER Chairman As this issue was being closed for the press, RABBI NATHAN BULMAN we learned the tragic news of the passing of RABBI JOSEPH ELIAS R' YOSEF SHLOMO KAHANEMAN JOSEPH FRIEDENSON RABBI MOSHE SHERER 1Y.lli1'.:J i1Y.l?\!I '1171> 'i 11Nli1 (J.i i)J\!l~)J))).l>)l'.:!9) THE JEWISH OBSERVER does not 1"1=>"ll7 i''1ll "l=>t assume responsibility for the Kashrus of any product or service Together with Kial Yisroel we mourn the passing advertised in its pages. of a Prince of Torah, a Builder of Torah, who has left each of of us a legacy that will SEPT. 1969 VoL. VI, No. 2 endure ad Bi'as Ha'goel. .....@! back through the blackness of Space. And-the laws worked: they worked on the Moon exactly as they worked on Earth. a jew looks We must be careful in the excite­ ment of such a wondrous achieve­ ment not to assume the we-knew-it­ at the world all-the-time-posture, or draw naive conclusions that we may too quickly have to discard. Yet we could not but be amused when a famous scien­ tist declared that he was reversing himself on his theory of the origin Man Touches the Moon of the Moon: he is now more in­ Man has walked on the Moon. times. We will also refrain from dis­ clined to believe in the theory which Apart from the nature of the event cussion of the dangerous precedent attributes a common origin to the itself, is the almost equally incredible in tampering with our tefilos, es­ Earth and the Moon, because of phenomenon that it was "seen" by pecially in the excitement of the their now more apparent simi1ari­ millions throughout the world. Jour­ moment. What strikes us is the ties. Surely two bodies created by nalists, commentators, scientists, and failure to appreciate the poetry of One Creator will bear similarities, "the man in the street" have already the language of our tefilos. When and will in essence be governed by been henrd from. In America, where we say of the Moon: "i'efshar similar laws. the craving for "news" is insatiable, li'noga bock" we refer to man's in­ Religious thinkers and leaders were the news media reported every de­ ability to tamper with the celestial quick to praise the Moon landing, tail, down to the menu of each meal bodies. Even if one feels constrained kst anyone think they had any the Astronauts ate during their trip. to be perfectly liternl, surely no fears of its implications. For the As Americans and citizens of the one can "touch the Moon" while Jew there is this implication: When World, our feelings are little differ­ standing on Earth. The United we bend the knee and address the ent from those of our fellow human States Naval Observatory, which is Almighty as "the G-d of Avraham, beings. surely aware that the Earth revolves Yitzchok and Yaakov" it must make around the Sun, continues to list us all the more aware of the Might Jewish news media, searching for a for each calendar day the precise of our G-d, who in a tiny segment "Jewish angle" first featured the moment of "Sunrise" and "Sunset." of His Universe has manifested presence of Israeli officials at the such wonders. We must be grateful Apollo 11 launching, and then the FOR THE JEW-for the believing to our Prophets and Sages, who greetings of President Shazar to Jew-there is great significunce in armed us with the words and the President Nixon. Later they latched this latest of Man's achievements in phrases with which to address Al­ onto the "revision" of the text of the conquest of Space. There are mighty G-d-without them w e the tefilos recited each month when still some sophisticates around who would stand before Him struck the New Moon appears. No longer, question whether we live in an or­ dumb by His mighty works. Hav­ it was argued, could we say of the dered universe. Yet, building on his ing witnessed Man landing on the Moon "just as it is impossible to knowledge of our planet, and the Moon, the Jew goes back to his touch you ..."-Man bad indeed laws which govern nature on Earth, Sefer with the exhaltation of know­ touched the Moon. And-wonder man was able to plot a course to a ing that each word of Torah places of wonders-a variant text was place he had never been; land on a found which brings the tefilos into him in direct contact with the Mas­ surface he had never before touch­ ter of Space; the knowledge that the line with man's state of knowledge ed; and predict quite accurately Law of our Torah, and the Laws in July of the year 1969. what that surface would be like. which govern our Universe are We will refrain from an attempt to Man was able to protect himself equally the manifestation of G-d's explain what motivates such con­ against an environment he had love for Mankind and Kial Yisroel. cern with keeping in tune with the never experienced, and find his way Y.J. The ]elvish Obsei"ver / September, 1969 3 hibitionism in the area of sexual morality, the newest spectacle con­ cocted to push ahead toward the On Obscenity outer limits of freedom will be the taking of human life on a stage. One In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the cribe the human body as "a some­ can already hear the arguments ... city council, alarmed at the new what inadequate, energy source and but enough. permissiveness which is sweeping information retriever-which can be Yet in spite of our inhibitions against over American society, passed a mass produced," is to destroy the detailed discussion of the question strong anti-obscenity law. Anxious poetry and the mystery of human -Yes! we still believe that inhibi­ lest clever attorneys find ways of life. And to focus on the physical tions can be good-we must at least circumventing the law, the legisla­ aspects of human life to the nega­ record our anxious concern. There tors took pains to make the restric­ tion of the soul is to cut ourselves is little that Orthodox Jewry can do tions on pornography most explicit. off from the source of the ultimate to stem the rising force of obscen­ When the city attorney read the law beauty and human joy. The tradi­ ity in our society. Even our personal prior to its printing he ruled that tional Jewish abhorence of obscen­ options in avoiding obscenity are it could not be· published: it was ity is motivated by the wish that the being severely limited as the per­ pornographic. relationship between man and wo­ missiveness closes in on us from man be maintained on the highest so many directions. Yet we must Similarly, the press-even the so­ level of Holiness. What greater joy called "family newspapers" - in attune ourselves to the threats and can a human being experience than seek means of innoculating our­ their reporting the new permissive­ to have his body constantly inter­ selves and our children from the ness, become almost as pornogra­ acting with his Creator and attuned phic as the subjects of their reports. lethal fumes that creep through the to the Divine Will. Obscenity creates cracks in our homes, and through And conversely, a publication such discord: between man and wife; be­ as ours, must tread ever so lightly, the cracks in our spiritual structure. tween man and his Creator; between Perhaps the greatest thing we can Jest we fall into the same trap. man and his fellow man. Simply to talk about, to describe do i< to earnestly pray-really pray The permissiveness that grows from what is happening takes one into -that what is happening (some day to day raises serious questions have suggested, unconvincingly, that forbidden areas. as to the ability of a democratic it is only a passing stage) will in LET IT BE CLEAR: we are not here society to survive in absolute free­ some way reverse itself, and at least talking about prudishness or puri­ dom.
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