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Page 4—EDITORIAL Section
TEXAS JEWISH POST
Thursday, November 20, 1952
EDITORIAL
THANKSGIVING DAY
Let no man refrain from turkey on Thanksgiving
Day, said Alexander Hamilton.
It is significant that the great American statesman
emulated Biblical phraseology. Speaking of a holiday,
it was perhaps natural, yet the Thanksgiving holiday is
.peculiarly in the Hebraic tradition.
It was the Pilgrim Fathers who initiated the Thanks-
giving observance. America hallows them, but in their
own days, their cup was not so sweet. A Pilgrim is a'
wanderer, a refugee, and the lot of the refugee is entern-
ally hard.
The Pilgrims and Puritans who constituted the first
layers of European settlement of the American continent
were steeped in the Hebraic tradition. They cherished
the Old Testament patriarchs and prophets rather than
the New Testament saints. They spoke of the British
King as Pharoah and of America as the “promised land.”
They came to a country enormously rich in its natur-
al resources and a land of virgin soil, yet the first year
saw almost half of them dead. They had succumbed
before the rigors of the new enviroment. We may well
imagine the dimensions of the catastrophe if the first
immigration instead of being one boat load ran into the
tens of thousands as in the case of Israel today.
But they kept on. They had a mystic confidence in
their future, but even this faith could scarcely have fore-
seen the magnificance of the future of which they were
laying the foundations.
And who shall guess the immense future lying before
Israel? Will it write new Bibles? Will it, standing at
the bridge of three continents, mediate between East and
West that the train shall truly meet? Will it, as Professor
Lowdermilk of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has
hinted, point the way by which the deserts of the world,
constituting one third of the area the world, may be re-
claimed? If so, this will add an area to cultivation equal
to that which Columbus revealed to the world by the
discovery of America.
Some of the problems faced by the new Israel are
harder than those which faced the Pilgrams to America.
There is a story in Israel about a resident of the new)
Negeb outpost of Elath who was visiting a relative in Tel
Aviv. The latter asked the visitor to help him pull some
weeds.
“Pull some weeds out,” exlaimed the Elath man.
“Why in Elath, when we see a weed, we protect it from
the sun, we put a stick in the sand to bloster it, we coddle
it, we celebrate it and you ask me to help you pull weeds
out!” *
Yes, the soil of the Negeb is not as fertile as that
which is around Tel Aviv, yet last year, 500,000 dunams
of Negeb land were sown with wheat and barley and
the Israel bond budget provides that during the coming
year 300 miles of new pipes will be laid in the Negeb,
bringing irrigation to a vast stretch of the Negeb sands.
Nor is the sand itself without its peculiar blessings. A
great factory has been erected at Beersheba to make
high class glassware of the Negeb sands and undqrneath
the sands also, copper and phosphates and other min-
erals have been discovered, which, let us trust, will
make the pilgrims of today as happy and thankful as
The bountiful harvests made the Pilgrims of yesterday.
New Citizens
Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Seglin, 4442
N. Damen, Chicago, 111., announce
the birth of their son, Alan Neal on
November 11th.
Grandparent honors are shared by
Mr. Joe Bronstein of Fort Worth
and Mr. and Mrs. Seglin of Chicago.
Proud great-grandmother is Mrs.
Tillie Carb of Houston.
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gudinsky,
3549 Suffolk, announce the birth
of their second daughter, Debbie, on
November 12th at Harris Hospital.
Grandparent honors are shared by
Mr. and Mrs. Eli Gundinsky of Fort
Worth and Mr. and Mrs. Max Grab-
staid of Dallas.
Proud great-grandparents are Mrs.
Bessie Grabstald and Mr. and Mrs.
H. Smith of Dallas and Mr. I. Motley,
of Fort Worth,
Rabbi and Mrs. Isadore Garsek,
2205 Hawthorne, announce the birth
of their fourth child and first daugh-
ter, Barbara, on November 14th at
Harris Hospital.
Proud grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Garsek of Des Moines,
Iowa.
Mr. and Mrs. William Cohen,
Corpus Christi, announce the birth
of a son on November 12th.
Proud grandparents are Mrs.
Anna L. Cohen of Fort Worth
and Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Weil
of Corpus Christi.
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By ABRAHAM J. BRACHMAN
It is good to give thanks unto the Lord. It is a pleasure
to have the things or the qualities for which to be thankful.
It is noble to realize that we have these and to be unsel
fish enough to acknowledge them instead of looking at
what we do not have and asking for moie. It is refresh-
ing and stimulating and ennobling to expiess our feelings
of gratitude.
Perhaps the Chasidim, the old sect of pietists, knew
all this and meant gratitude and thanksgiving when they
emphasized the worship of God in joy. Worship the Lord
in joy. Joy becomes the essence of unselfish generosity
through gratitude. It is pure unselfishness. It can regen-
erate the universe.
Not always, yet many times, whether to be grateful
or complaining depends mostly on the side from which
we look. Few of us expect perfection, unless it is of our-
selves and evene then it is a mistake. Why is it that in
events we so often see the flaws instead of the great
good that is present? I wonder whether the early Pilgrims
had a prefect case for thanksgiving. It seems they could
still have found plenty wrong with their situation, lack-
ing for their happiness. Instead of seeing that they looked
at the great good that had happened. They had survived
a year and now had food to eat.
Why is it that we have to wait until worse things
happen to appreciate how relatively little is bad and how
much is good., From the very beginning the problem
begins. Is life an evil or is it a good? Do we blame our
parents for bringing us into the world or do we thank them
for our having been born? The latter has become an ob-
solete conception completely. At Bar Mitzvahs new-
found men thank their parents for having given them
care but no one is grateful for having been born. Why
then should we be grateful for each renewed day of
life even though we have comparitive happiness. For I
am not speaking of people with genuine difficulties but
of most people who get along tolerably well.
Emphasizing our ills is a form of selfishness. It is
a form of jealousy. It is in part at least a feeling of in-
sufficiency, inadequacy, inferiority in ourselves. We do
not mind our ills so much if we find that others also
have them. Misery loves company. Partly the reason may
be the support that one person gives to the other, but
another reason is that thereby we feel no lower in the
eyes of fate, no less able to do things for ourselves, and
no more unjustly treated by fate than are others. Here
is where our complaint often lies rather than in the evil
itself. Have we been unjustly treated, or worse yet, have
we been discriminated against? For in regard to injustice
we may look for some secret sin to justify the punishment
against ourselves or at least may cry out in moral out-
iage,^ but by discrimination we are struck dumb with
anguish and terror.
Paul Morris
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