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JEWISH"WESTERN BULLETIN
New Year Issue,; Tuesday^ September 28, 1954
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The Editor's View
May Rosh Hashoiia A new Era
hy A. J. Arnold
'T^HE blast of the Shofar will once again ring out to the Jewish-pcc^le as they gather in their synagogues to celebrate. Rosfa HashbnA~ the-advent of another yeair in the Jewish calendar—^the beginning of 5715. Once more the Jewish people commence the new year with a p0riod of-solemn observance. Once again the Shofar calls to them, to mediate on the deeds and misdeeds of the past year, and give due consideration to the need for self-betterment in the coming year.
At RoshHashona the Shofar teki'ah calls.^ us to pause in our earthly pursuits and consider our spiritual well-being. The shebarim and teru'ah are intended to awaken the conscience and- call man to serious thought about his emotional and cultural states of experience. The, Shofar^ us to,-prayer and contemplation, and to consideratioa of the need for human redemption.
We are urged at Rosh Hashona to return to the course of righteousness and goodness.
Instead of adhering to the qualities of goodness and virtue in life, we tend to enshrine them. We place them on a high^^pedestat as something desirable, but unattainable on earth. The Shofar is surely intended to call us back to reality. And this need not appear in cotitradiction to the call to the spiritual, unless we identify spiritual with the worship of goodness rather than its practice:
The realities of our age show us that things once thought unattainable have now been achieved. Consider for example the awesome yet promising potentialities accompanying the splitting of the atom, and for the Jewish people the creation of the Jewish state.
Yet the potential fruits of atomic energy may be turned to radioactive annihilation even as they begin to blossom. And all because man's, order i^f human relations has not caught up-with his scientific attainments.
We see the building of bigger and more destruaivie atomic weapons. We witness the wholesale freeing and forgiving of unrepentant nazi war criminals. We see the increased efforts to re-arm Gerhiany. We witness the sending of more and more arms to Arab state leaders who are still trying to keep their countries in the dark age of feudalism.
One nation cannot protect itself against another by building bigger and better bombs because the potential destructive power of- the latest type bomb is greater than the combined explosive power of both sides in the first world war. Nor can one country truly defend itself against another country by arming a third country. The era of the two-sided war —defensive versuis offensive—ris gone. In an H-bomb war there can only be one side—^the destruaive side.
Today a nation's only defense lies in learning to understand and live with its neighbors in peace and equality."
The value of our traditions and customs lies not only in relating them ,to the past. Let us barken to the call of the Shofar as a call to the possibilities of a new era of human relations.
We can do this by establishing a constructive link between the. spiritual contemplation to which we are called at Rosh Hashona and the every day activity to which we soon return. May we bring back to our daily lives that quality that will motivate us to help our brothers and sisters in Israel and elsewhere, and pur neighbours wherever we live, in the spirit of true irotherhood. ' .
On Rosh Hashona we express the wish: "May you be inscribed for a happy year." This year may we all help to inscribe ourselves for a happy uture in a world at peace.
THE JEWISH WESTERN BULLETIN
Official Organ of the Jewish Community Council of Voncouver
DR. J. V. WHITE....................................................._____........... President
DR. S. MARGOLESE........................ .....Pubh'cohoD Chofrmon
LOUIS ZIMMERMAN.................... ...........ExecuHve Director
ABRAHAM J. ARNOLD............... .................... Publisher and Editor
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VANCOUVER, B.C., SEPTEMBER 28, 1954