Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1943 Page: 3 of 68
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THE SYNAGOGUE COUNCIL OF AMERICA
Our Penitential season beginning with Rosh Hashanah
(New Year) and culminating in Yom Kippur (Day of
Atonement) is the most solemn in the Jewish calendar
fraught with the highest spiritual aspirations and the
deepest insights to the human soul. Its major themes
are—repentance, atonement, salvation—the hope for hu-
man improvement, both individual and universal.
The slogan of Rosh Hashanah repeatedly emphasized
in its liturgy is “Today a world is at birth." In Jewish
tradition this day marks the birth of a new world, the
rebirth not alone of the little world of individual man
but also of the larger world of the entire human race.
It bespeaks one of the central themes of the message of
Israel—the hope of regeneration, enlightenment and re-
demption of the individual man and of all humanity.
It’s a heartening message for our erring and stricken
world.
In this bitterest struggle in history whose cost in
human life and treasure is staggering, we need the
fortitude and hope generated by deep faith. Particularly
do we Jews stand in need of it now, for our share of
the sacrifice is beyond comparison. Our casualties have
been essentially of civilians amounting to nearly three-
quarters of the European Jewish population, who have
been exterminated by planned torture, murder, starva-
tion, disease and deportation. The remnants still alive
have been completely despoiled and are faced with the
continuance of merciless destruction.
In the concept of the Rabbis the Shofar (Ram’s horn)
sounds the admonition, “Mend your ways." It bids men
reexamine and correct their thoughts, their deeds, their
attitudes and their conduct. Never in history was its
exhortation so desperately needed as it is today, when
the whole world is suffering the consequences of its
prolonged moral apathy in the face of growing rest-
lessness and tyranny.
Our historical lessons have taught us that when mis-
fortune befall a man or people they must examine their
own deeds. “When ye are stricken, ye will return unto
your God.” It has been our peculiar role to call the
world to repentance, but we must first repent ourselves.
This, is the message of our Penitential season.
Because the conscience of enlightened democracies
has at last been awakened, Israel, the first and greatest
sufferer at the hands of Nazidom, is encouraged on this
day to look more hopeful to the emergence of a new
era, when the Jew will know justice and equity wher-
ever he dwells, and when out of Zion a Jewish com-
munity dwelling in its ancestral home in peace and
security, may, as of old, radiate moral inspiration to all
mankind. We pray that this Penitential season may find
us responsive to its appeal and that all men in all na-
tions may strive unitedly and earnestly to build a world
order founded on freedom and justice.
NEW YEAR GREETINGS
FOR CORRECT TIME ANY TIME
RUTH E. McLAIN 1705 MAIN ST.
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