The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 9, 1971 Page: 6 of 18
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Page SIX.
Rooster Knew When Chanukah Came
The Weekly
Torah Portion
Bv Rabbi N JOStPHY
“VAYESHEV
Jacob dwelt in the land of his
fathers, in the land of Canaan,
Jacob loved Joseph more than
he loved his other sons,
principally because Joseph was
Rachel’s first-born, and because
Joseph was more like Jacob in
temperament and dispostion
than were any of the other sons.
Joseph had several dreams, in
all of which his eventual
supremacy over his brothers was
depicted. He recited these
dreams to his family, and his
brothers grew to hate him.
Then one day, when his
brothers were tending the flocks
in Shechem, Joseph went to
meet them, and he found them
in Dothan, which was nearby.
The brother’s conspired to kill
him, but Reuben prevented
them from committing this
murder. They cast Joseph into
an empty pit, and during
Reuben's absence, they sold
Joseph to a band of Ishmaelites,
who in turn sold Joseph to
Potiphar, captain of the guard of
the Pharaoh of Egypt, who made
him steward of his household.
Potinhar’s wife became
infatuated with Joseph, who was
exceptionally handsome; but
Joseph resisted her immodest
and immoral advances.
Frustrated in her efforts, she
took vegeance upon him by
telling her husband that Joseph
had tried to seduce her. Potiphar
had Joseh thrown in prison.
While incarcerated there, he
correctly interpreted dreams
which the king’s butler and
baker had — and which later
by DAVID SCHWARTZ
“Blessed is the Lord for letter. About nay research, well
bestowing on the rooster the your Majesty, I have been
ability to distinguish between studying fermentation like in
night and day.” yeast or wine. Some day we will
In this benediction, the Jew be able to make food out of
thanks God for the first alarm chemicals, so no one will go
clock, or shall we say, alarm hungry. I will be glad to
cock. Thanks to it, the Jew cooperate, but it is for the
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
LET THY WORDS BE BRIEF (Ecclesiastes
The JEWISH HERALD-VOICE
A Journal Devoted to the Interest of Southwest Jewry
knew when to awaken and say military to decide whether my
his morning prayers. Its research can serve them.
cock-a-doodle-doo is cheerier Best regards to the missus,
and more musically pleasing Stay healthy.
than the repetitive ding, ding, Chaim Weizmann
ding of the mechanical alarm His Majesty’s experts after
clock, but the only trouble with some study conclude that
it is that you can’t set it for any Weizmann’s research could be
hour you want. helpful. Visiting government
Could you wind up a rooster offices, Dr. Weizmann one day
to awaken you for dinner or let meets Lord Balfour. “How do
us say, for Chanukah, so you you do? How do you do?” Out
could light the Chanukah of this, “how do you do? was to
candles? come the Balfour Declaration,
This is the question. promising British support for a
It is 1917. Great year for Jewish homeland.
newspapers. Extra! United If they had not met, would
States enters World War. Extra! history' have been different?
Revolution in Russia. All over That is the question.
the world there is schlagen, One thing we can say about
schlagen, schlagen. Balfour and Dr. Weizmann. They
Dr. Chaim Weizmann opens a were very much alike. Balfour
letter from His Majesty. What was a real goy and Weizmann a
does His Majesty want? He real Jew. Could any two people
would like to know, Dr. be more alike?
Weizmann, about your research. So they sat down and had
He hopes to make use of some tea. Both the Englishman
scientific research, wherever and the Jew liked tea. The
possible for the war effort. difference is that a Jew like Dr.
Weizmann takes his pen: Weizmann usually took one
Dear King: piece of sugar for three cups of
Was glad to receive your tea, while Balfour’s family was
■—-----------------------------better off, so he took a piece of
came true. The baker was sugar for each cup of tea.
hanged, and the butler was When they had tea, they had
restored to his position, but he conversation
forgot his promise to Joseph What is conversation?
that he would endeavor to Conversation is when you ask
obtain his release from the questions. When you don’t ask
dungeon. questions, it’s not conversation.
A GUTEN SHABOS A It’s a speech.
PLEASANT WEEKEND ANDA Balfour asked Dr. Weizmann
FREIYLECHEN CHANUKAHatalh, :
a question. Jerusalem ne said,
“is an old, desolate city. What
does a man like you want it
for?”
So now Dr. Weizmann asked
Dear Mr. White:
In your December 2, 1971 issue, Rabbi Schachtel's reply missed
the mark. Whether or not the Pharisees tried to hoax the Jewish
public 2,000 years ago is not the question. Is it beneficial and honest
to preach Pharisaic solutions today? That is the question. A religion
that does not answer real problems is useless.
Such problems are: finite human existence, aloneness, and death.
Waning interest in religious activity indicates dissatisfaction with the
old answer: rewards of ressurection and eternal life through
obedience to correct revealed beliefs and actions.
The Bible is adequate to the task of comfort by providing
salvation through reconciliation with observable reality. The third
chapter of the Book of Ecclesiastes offers proof texts that gainsay,
as 1 see it, the incredible Pharisaic view of man: “It is a gift from
God when any man eats and drinks and enjoys himself in all his
work. . . Man and beast have the same fate; as one dies, so dies the
other; all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the
beast; ... All go to one place, all return to the dust. .. Since this is
man’s lot, I understood the best thing for him is to rejoice in his
work; for who can bring him to see what shall be after him?”
Sincerity is worthless unaccompanied by truth. Jewish history is
plagued by sincere but false prophets and messiahs. One who adheres
to some aspects of Pharisaism is possibly within the bounds of
Reform Judaism, but reality impinges on us regardless of official and
changing pronouncements of rabbinic colleges.
Life is good. All men are mortal; princes and thieves, Indians and
chiefs.
Michael P. Le Burkien, Rabbi
Houston Cong. For Reform Judaism
a question. So he asked, “Why
do you Englishmen want
London?”
So Balfour says, “We English
have had London for hundreds
of years.” So Dr. Weizmann
says, “When London was just a
marsh, we Jews already had
Jerusalem.”
So there were no more
questions and no more tea, but
the war went on.
Allenby, the British
commander, was marching on
the Turks and Germans in the
Middle East.
The Turks expelled
Ben-Gurion and Ben Zevi from
Palestine. Some other Jews did
not fare so well. Sara Aaronson,
whose brother was famed as a
discoverer of a new species of
wheat, was visited bv the
Turkish police.
“Doing a lot of washing these
days, eh?”
“I hope,” she said, “the
government doesn’t object to
my trying to keep clean.”
“We have been watching that
clothes line of yours,” they said.
She had used the clothes line
to send messages to the British
Army. A shirt meant one thing,
a pair of pants something else.
Sara Aaronson was tortued to
death when the Turks tried to
make her confess.
There were othe; troubles.
The New York Times reported
famine conditions prevailed in
Palestine.
But Dr. Weizmann had
cheerful news too. Lord Balfour
said to Dr. Weizmann: “The
Continued on Page 18
D. H. White, Editor and Publisher
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— SYNAGOGUE SERVICES -
What Are the Mistakes of Yesterday?
One hears a great deal of the new efforts at Jewish
survival. National organizations, as well as local ones, talk
of "the thrust into tomorrow” and the saving of our
disenchanted and disinterested young college men and
women the future leaders of our communities.
Millions of dollars are spent annually for Jewish
education. Millions of dollars have been poured into what
we term the so-called Jewish educational program, in most
instances by our synagogues and temples. Why have we
suddenly decided that all of this effort, all of this money,
has not been providing us with a positive approach to
Jewish continuity? Will the building of day schools, the
forced presence of children in religious schools, the “think
tanks" and nationally funded programs be the answer?
On the local scene — what have been the mistakes in
preparing our youth to assume religious responsibility?
Where did we fail them? Can religion, any religion, survive
in a free society? Can we inspire our students by induced
methods and the outpourings of millions of additional
dollars in failure continuity. Do we want a kingdom of
priests'.’
If there has been failure in the past — how will we avoid
it in the future9 If we have not had sufficiently trained
teachers, how will we rectify this in the pell-mell rush to
establish "new religious schools”? Where will the teachers
come from? How about our texts? and our curriculum?
and the adverse reaction to parochialism? Will we build a
wall between our children and our neighbor’s children?
What about those members of our community who do not
want the day-school idea?
More thought should be given to the pros and cons of
this newest development which some view with such rosy
expectations to fill the void and rectify the ills of so many
years of neglect.
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL
5600 N. Braeswood
Friday, Dec. 10, 8:15 p.m. Dr. H.
J. Schachtel’s sermon: "A New Kind of
Chanukah."
Saturday morning service, 11 o’clock.
JEWISH HOME FOR THE AGED
Sabbath Eve Services at sundown.
Saturday: 9:00 a.m.
The public is welcome.
HOUSTON CONGREGATION FOR
REFORM JUDAISM
801 Bering Drive
Friday, Dec. 10, 8:15 p.m. Rabbi
Michael Le Burkien’s sermon: "Sour
Grapes Set the Teeth on Edge—Ezekiel."
CONGREGATION BETH YESHURUN
4525 Beechnut Blvd.
Friday, Dec. 10, 8 p.m Guest speaker:
Steven Windmueller, American Jewish
Committee Program Specialist in Jewish
Communal Affairs, Dept, of Youth Activ-
ities.
Saturday, 8 a.m. and 10:15 a.m.; 3:30
p.m. Talmud; 4:30 p.m. Chumash &
Rashi; 5:00 p.m. Mincha, Seudah Shli-
sheet, Maariv.
Sunday, 8 a.m. Shacharit; 9:45 a.m.
Tallit ‘N Tephillin Service & Breakfast.
Daily Services: 7:00 a.m. and 5:15 p.m.
Early Sabbath Eve Services: 5:00 p.m.
HILLEL - U. of H.
Room 201 — R. D. Bruce Religion Center
CONGREGATION EMANU EL
1500 Sunset Blvd.
Friday, Dec. 10, 6:30 p.m. Chanukah
Box Supper; 7:30 p.m., Jr. Choir Pageant.
Saturday morning, 11 o’clock.
CONGREGATION BRITH SHALOM
4610 Bellaire Blvd.
Friday, Dec. 10, 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Moshe
Cahana’s sermon: "Pain of Man."
Saturday, 7 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, Dec. 12, 10 a.m. Chanukah
Program.
Sunday, Men’s Club Minyan 9:30 a.m.;
breakfast 10 a.m., program 10:30 a.m.
CONGREGATION BETH JACOB
2401 Avenue K, Galveston, Texas
Saturday, 9 a.m. and sunset.
Sunday, 8 a.m. and sunset.
Weekday services, 7 a.m. and sunset.
CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL
The Henry Cohen Memorial
3008 Ave. 0, Galveston, Texas
Friday evening services 8 p.m.
Saturday morning, 10 a.m.
UNITED ORTHODOX SYNAGOGUES
OF HOUSTON
4221 S. Braeswood
Friday, Dec. 10, 8 p.m. Rabbi R. S.
Schwartzman’s sermon: “The Message of
Chanukah.”
Saturday, 7:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., Study
Group 4:00 p.m.; Mincha, Sholosh Seudos,
5:00 p.m.
Sunday: 8 a.m.
Monday-Thursday, 6:45 a.m.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, 7:00 a.m.
Daily evening, 5:15 p.m.
CONGREGATION SHAAR HASHALOM
HOUSE OF PRAYER LUTHERAN CHURCH
2010 Reseda, Clear Lake City, Texas
Friday, Dec. 10. Rabbi Max Landman’s
sermon: “G—d’s Torah is the Golden Rule
of Life."
Saturday- morning: 9 a.m. Hebrew
School and Hebrew education classes
conducted 10 a.m., following services.
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