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Page Two Day of Atonement BY DAVID SCHWARTZ Copyright, 1941, Jewish Tele graphic Agency, Inc. i A peculiar ceremony took place 1 on the Day of Atonement in an cient Israel—in the days when the sacrificial system prevailed. The people came up to *"the Temple in Jerusalem from every part of Palestine. They came to the Temple to ask forgiveness for their sins, and we may suppose, that each of them like you and I, felt that he has brought with him quite a package of the sins that he had accumulated during the year. If you will look at the prayer book and see the sins which each person must confess himself guilty of, it will be plain that the sages of Israel felt that every man during the course of the year had omitted few sins. Could they expect that they would be forgiven so much—on this day of Atonement when the final judgment was pronounced on each individual. Dismal thoughts must have entered their mind— but lo! there steps forth the High Priest—and at the side of him is brought dp a goat. The High Priest laid his hands, says the Prayer book, on the goat, and avows, “all the iniquity of the Israelites, all their transgressions, even all their sins” are upon thee. The goat laden with all these ac cumulated sins was then sent to the wilderness. The people at once felt better. Felt lighter. The innocent goat had absorbed all of their iniquity. The "scapegoat” idea is to be found among all peoples. The sages of Israel even in those an cient days while permitting the symbolism just noted, at the same time took occasion to warn a- KRIA 66 Bite SaMf With Safety Safety Cabs, Inc. s-nw 10c A yWwHnwi and Bonded iABOAfiB TBAXSFEB SHOP and SATE AT Setter's STORES MURPHY & MUNDY Druggists To Toe Souihidrtß Next Door to San Marco Theatre FREE MOTOR DELIVERY PHONE 9-1626 PffILCO "A New Kind of Refrigerator" See It Today MAYTAG MODERN APPLIANCE CO. 414 Main St Ph. 8-8160 Call for "Dixie" at your grocer. Coupons redeemable at your favorite grocer or DIXIE SALES GO. 116 E. 18th Ph. 8-18*8 In The Beth Midrash At Bialystok tHnSsP® 6 * ; > ! i tVmH v,’. %■, W,- v: 41' HI-' l« f - U :% ? i, /wUpvt ” JHlfflHpjpitM Mi . utl ,'l, -v'v ’r' ; Vm^' v ,V Mjjk-.JjL sgtarol at- : »■•: . vw. .xfot Wfc ■&> / E&mKM?itZ<\r -«-«■&’. p.,«. -• ? '" r, ; - a- „ , .* /•>* v. r . - • - TfIfMMpiMMTIMIW ■ypg* - r JBK3 A Study by Lionel Reiss gainst it—and they virtually nul lified the basis for it by saying that "on Yom Kippur, it is true, sins are forgiven, but those sins are the sins between God and man, but the only way of obtaining for giveness for the sins between man and man is by actually correcting the sinful relation.” (I am not giving the exact words, but the substance of the rabbi’s conten tion.) It is because of this, that ambng orthodox Jews, those for instance who have had quarrels with others during the year very frequently on the eve of Yom Kippur make attempts at patch ing up their differences. They know that in the practical things of life, the goat will do them no good. . / But the goat idea Is too service able for those wbo want to blind the people's eyes to be so easily discarded. Speaking of Lind bergh’s speech at Des Moines the other day, Dorothy Thompson cor rectly said that "Lindberg is play ing the game of America’s ene mies in typical Nazi fashion by making the Jews the scapegoats.” Yes, Lindbergh is working the same old goat game. Divert the minds of the people away from the great menace of Hitlerism — of a madman challenging, as Roosevelt said, “all civilization, all morality, all religion”—by turning their minds on the Jew, as the goat. I wonder who gets the worst of it in this goat racket. We Jews have ordinarily assumed that we do, but I wonder. The goat is sent off to the wilderness. Not such a bad place for a goat But what about the people who by the instrumentality of the goat, accept this absolution —fail to see the warts and the black spots in their own makeup —fail to see those things which people in olden times were wont to call their sins, but which we see today more as stupidities and inefficiencies. Recently, at Willfamstown, an Patronize Jack Tillotson’s Standard Service Station 8101 Main Ph. 5-9781 Sixth ft Peart Phone 5-9356 Park Free While Ton Select the Latest Style of— WAUL PAPER Reasonable Cost Metropolitan Wall Paper Store 1451 West Forsyth Street Telephone 5-2689 THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY Institute., on., race., prejudice., in which a number of psychologists participated was held. And these men of science told what happens to the people that hate—and it would seem from their discussions that worse things happen to the haters than to the hated. Almost every neurotic is a person of some intense hatreds. That way lies not only neuroticism but paranoia and insanity. These are hard, scientific facts. And what happens to a nation that hates. We see what is al ready happening to Germany and the chances are that Germany is in for some far more bitter days within the next year. In cities of Poland and the Ukraine, thous ands of Jews have been driven from their homes. That’s bitter for the Jews. But what are the Nazis doing with these homes? According to a cable of Che Jew ish Telegraphic Agency, thousands of these homes have been turned into hospitals for Nazi wounded soldiers. Jews may have sighed in those homes, but Nazis are lying there groaning. Old Spain bad the Inside hold on the new world, but lost it all. Why ? Because her discoverers brought along the Inquisition and hate. Lawrence Washington, brother of George Washington, appealing to the Virginia Legisla ture to grant full freedom of re ligion pointed to the freedom in Pennsylvania as the reason for her great early prosperity. Yes, decency pays, but hate is a boom erang, destroying the hater. Some day, when the truths of history and perhaps especially the truths of the psychologists sink into the minds of the people, it won’t be the Jews who will run the anti-Defamatien League, it won’t be the Jewish organizations who will warn against anti-Semit ism—it will be the non-Jewish or ganizations. There will be "So cieties to Protect Christians from Anti-Semitism” and it is these who will wage the campaigns a gainst the Coughlins, the Hitlers and the Lindberghs. The Christian world suffers as much from the goat of anti- Semitism as the Jew, Mr. Ripley, believe it or not! WANTED TO BUY Furniture Tools Dishes Office Furniture Model T Store 615 W. 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Dr. Clinchy, Father Don ovan and Rabbi Lazaron comprise the inter-faith committee which recently flew to London to study religious and social trends among organized religious groups in Eng land and Ireland. B—Two Senators named Clark figured in the same news event this month. What are their full names and why are they of public interest? ANS. Senator G. Worth Clark is chairman of the Sub-Committee probing the movie industry, while Senator Bennet Champ Clark is a member of the same committee. Herman Jackson DRY CLEANERS IS9I San Marco Bird. French Cleaners runloia Cold Storage Phone 9-1653 FOB DELIVERY SERVICE wb follow the STORK v 1067 E. BTH ST. FH. 618 06 Friday, September 26, 194 J MIAMI STREAMLINF I trains I 8:40 AM and 11:30 AM I One Way $5.50-R. T . $ 9 90 ■ Florida East Coast R v r* 289 W. Forsyth Ph, I <<<<« LOCKWOODiI Prescription Druggists 1 1500 Miami Rd. Phone 9-4419 ■ College & King Ph. 1 ■>»■»»> > > > > > > CHRYSLER Business 5-7526 9 R. B. 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