Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1972 — Page 18
THE JEWISH POST AND OPINION
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Passover's Meaning To Us
(Continued from Preceding Pg.) The Passover epic teaches us to share our blessings with all ©ur neighbors, Jews and nonJews alike. We must be generous and charitable toward the weak, the persecuted, the
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alien, “for ye were strangers heart of a stranger, since ye in the land of Egypt” (Leviticus were strangers in the land of 10:34). We must keep alive the Egypt” (Exodus 23l9). memories of our ancestors 5 PASSOVER ALSO makes us trials, lest we become arrogant aware of our debt to God, from and cruel. “Do not oppress the w hom all blessings emanate, foreigners, for ye know the we are to remember that God
emancipated us from the land of Egypt (Leviticus 11:45). Moreover, this festival teaches us to recognize our duty toward our country, the guardian of our freedom. We must not lapse into smugness and complacency. On frie contrary, we must develop a wholesome vigilance that will keep us alert to any threat to the democratic way of life. Freedom is not a legacy, a gift from the past! A people must earn the right to be free, and be ready to scrifice for it, because, as the Haggadah warns us, “in every generation, despots arise who plot to
destroy us.”
Interestingly, during the Seder, as we enumerate the ten plagues, it is accepted practice to drop some wine from the goblet on the plate. This is to remind us that, when other human beings are suffering, Lineup of joy cannot be full. Judaism, then, cautions us against becoming brutalized by the demands of war. We must not lose our decent human impulses even when we are, of necessity, called upon to engage in the ugly business of conflict. We do not fight because we delight in battle. We fight in self-defense, in an effort to safeguard human dignity and liberty, which are supremely
sacred.
THIS GREAT MORAL lesson is dramatized in the Talmud. The Rabbis relate: “When the Egyptian hosts were drowning in the Red Sea, the angels in Heaven were about to break forth in joyous song. But the Holy One, blessed be He, silenced them with the reprimand: 4 My creatures are perishing and ye are in a mood to sing!’ ” So — we dare not rejoice in a people’s disaster, even if it be just retribution for evil ways. Seder pageantry is designed to appeal to the younger members of the family. It is the youngest child who asks the “F Ptix Questions.” The Haggadah speaks of the “Four Sons.” The children are ptompted to snatch the Afikoman. A child, traditionally, opens the door to admit the prophet Elijah, the messenger of salvation. The stories told and the songs chanted at the Seder : are meant to stir the imagination of our youth. THIS ACCENT ON youth Is both ‘ a p p r o p r i a ? t e and ^ significant. It tells us that, while “freedom is everybody’s business,” and every person, young and old, must contribute towards preserving it, fate decrees that youth must .be in the vanguard in humanity’s etemdl fight for freedom. Since the days of the ancient Israelites, young people have been in the front lines of mankind’s struggles against the forces of slavery and tyranny, in the fight for preserving those human rights with which wC are endowed by divine grace. '■ Several times in the Torah we ’ find Moses commanded: “Appear before Pharaoh and demand that He liberate the ‘ Israelites so that they may serve me.” All too often, we are keenly C * * K l 2 -"* v « ?
aware only of what we are liberation was not to destroy the fighting against. In World War Egyptians but to enable the II, most slogans stressed the Israelites to enjoy the blessings elements and forces we were of freedom and to serve God. opposing. “Dictatorship must be The ultimate objective at the destroyed!” “Nazism must be ^exodus from Egypt was to bring crushed!” In the Korean The Israelites to Mount Sinai, struggle, also, many people to have them receive the Torah, spoke only of stopping the and thereby dedicate them to Communists. Great emphasis the establishment of justice, was placed upon the negative peace, and truth in the world, objectives of war. Not enough NOT ALL OF the Israelites attention was paid to what we understood this. Our sages tell were fighting for, to the positive us that, after the Israelites aims of our struggle. Destroying crossed the Red Sea in safety, evil is hut half the job. To some of them noticed fertile establish goad is our real goal, fields and rich plains and Eliminating slavery is but a desired to settle down. They felt preliminary to the enthrone- that, since the Egyptians no ment of freedom and the ser- longer were a threat, their job vice of God. was done. Not so Moses. He Moses kept reminding his knew that beyond the Red Sea people that the purpose of their (Continued on Next Page)
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