4 — THE BULLETIN — Thursday. August ^8.1980
- deaths -
ELSIE POPELIK August 6
SAM SILSKI August 11
DAVID KATHKIN August 14
PAUL SNIDER August 14
VICTOR GREENHUT August 17
ELI JACK LEVY August 19
HAIM SOFER August 20
ANNE MILNER August 22
JACK SIDENBERG August 23
JENNIE CHASE August 27
As another BulMIn community service feature. Deaths will t>e published weekly as they are registered. — THE PUBLISHER.
Victor Greenhut dies at 23
Victor Greenhut was interred here after dying suddenly Aug. 17 in his 23rd year.
Bom and raised in Vancouver, he was educated at Vancouver Talmud Torah and Eric Hamber Secondary school.
He is survived by his parents, Jeanette and Harry Greenhut; a brother, Norman; two sisters, Mar-cie Jablinowitz and Lori Greenhut; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Silber.
Funeral services and burial were held Aug. 19 at Schara Tzedeck cemetery with Rabbi Y. Wineberg and Cantor M. Preis officiating. Chevra Kadisha was in charge of arrangements.
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Saying that an opportunity to resume negotiations "might not arise again in the foreseeable future," Sadat stressed that "no issue should be considered, or rendered, not negotiable."
"Your government adopted a negative and harmful policy in connection with settlements. I need not explain the international rejection and total condemnation of this policy, whether at the legal or moral level . . . These settlements, established in the West Bank and Gaza, are a real obstacle in the way of peace and, whether old or new, must be liquidated.
"I am confident that you remember our conversation in Aswan ... I advised you then not to fight a losing battle since all that you build or do in this connection is destined to utter failure."
(Jerusalem Post)
VENEZUELANS PROTEST
JERUSALEM — Jewish community in Venezuela is launching a wide-spread campaign against its government's decision to move its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, a radio interview broadcast here reported.
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Hebrew scholars meet in Warsaw
TEL AVIV - Warsaw University will host a conference on the Hebrew language, it was announced here by AvrahamShenkar, chairman of the World Hebrew Union.
The four-day conference will be the first of its kind in an East European country. Attending will be some 70 lecturers from 12 countries, including the USSR, other Eastern Bloc nations, Europe and Israel.
Warsaw University will be handling invitations tb-scholars in Eastern Europe, where.Russia alone has three chairs for the study of Hebrew. (Jerusalem Post).
Soviet emigration down
- GENEVA - Only 1,205 Soviet Jews reached Austria in July, compared to 1,767 in June, according to intergovernmental committee on European migration.
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PICTURED IN LONDON after the taping of Simon Wiesenthal Centre's multi-media presentation "Genocide" are: (left to right) Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Centre; Elizabeth Taylor Warner; Samuel Belzberg, trustee board chairman; Roland Arnall, board co-chairman, Alan Casden, board member. Mrs. Warner, who, along with Orson Welles, donated her talent to participate in the presentation will be recipient of first Simon Wiesenthal Humanitarian Award in Los Angeles, Nov, 9.
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Blowing the Shofar
May the shofar be sounded in the synagogue irrespective of whether a minyan is present? What is the exact significance and origin of the Shofar?
Why do some Torah scholars object to the custom of Tashlich on Rosh Hashona.
The obligation to blow the Shofar or to hear it sounded on Rosh Hashona is one that devolves on the individual Jew. It is emphatically not a communal rite. The reason why it is blown in the synagogue is so that each individual^ including those who cannot blow themselves, can fulfil his obligation. It follows that no minyan is required for the sounding of the Shofar.
As for the significance of the Shofar, varioujs suggestions have been put forWard. Well-known is Maimonides* reason — he calls it a "hint,** i.e., that there are probably other reasons. Maimonides suggest that it*s a piercing sound in order to awaken people from their spiritual slumber, a call to sincere repentance.
Other reasons that have been suggested by the Jewish teachers are that trumpets are sounded at the coronation of a king, and G-d is hailed as King on Rosh Hashona; that the ram*s horn is a reminder of the binding of Isaac; that it is a note of hope, since a great Shofar will be sounded when the Messiah comes; that it is a weeping sound, representing man*s grief over his sins in the past year; and that it is a reminder of the giving of the Torah, when a Shoar was sounded.
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Among those who plight not have supported anti-Israel sanctions were Britain, France, Portugal, Norway, the Philippines and Mexico.
But the PLO's representative, Zehdi Labib Terzi, is said to have received last minute instructions from Beirut calling for the sanctions.
Administration officials had been told that an American veto might go a long way towards reversing the domestic political damage done to Carter following the ill-fated March 1 U.S. vote at the U.N. — later partially repudiated.
There was little sympathy here for Israel about the exodus of foreign embassies from Jerusalem. '*Thaf s what happens when Begin follows the Geula Cohen policy," one observer said.
The general consensus, even among pro-Israel circles, was that Israel had itself to blame for its increasing international isoiaiion. "A few more months and Israel will manage to become the real pariah state,** one American Jewish leader said.
I take it that by "Torah scholars" you mean Orthodox Jews who are observant of the Halacha, not scholars who reject the Tashlich ceremony on the grounds that it has a superstitious origin (see the comprehensive article by Jacob Z. Lauter-bach in his Rabbinic Essays. Cincinnati, 1951, pages 299-436).
I have heard of a number of pious Lithuanian rabbis who did not observe Tashlich. In the prayer book of the Vilna Gaon, Ishey Yisrael. the Tashlich ceremony is recorded in full, but in the notes {Maaseh Rav, page 518) on the actual practice of the Gaon, it is stated: "He did not go to a river or well for the purpose of reciting Tashlich."
I have heard on good authority that this was not because the Gaon rejected the custom, but rather because he felt such a solem day as Rosh Hashona was far better spent in the uninterrupted study of the Torah.
In the first paragraph of the Unesaneh Tokef prayer it says that even the hosts of Heaven are judged on Rosh Hashona and that even they are "not guiltless." If angels have no "free will", how can they be judged or how can they "not be guiltless?"
Although this is obviously a poetic hymn and, as such, does not bear too close a literal scrutiny, its probable meaning is that the angels, too, can be "guilty" of not carrying out their functions adequately.
In the rabbinic scheme, angels cannot do evil deeds (except, of
course, for the malicious angels, whose task it is to do evil), but they Can fail in the tasks given to them. There is a talmudic passage, for example, in which the high angel, Metatron, is punished for failing to take proper care (Chagigah 15a).
there is the.further thought that yizku means "to be clean." The angels are not "clean" in G-d's sight, i.e., in the presence of the Almighty they shudder in awe at their un-worthiness. (Copyright JGN&FS).
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