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My Dreams and I
By RABBI JOSEPH UTSCHEN
Athens, Ga.
It is characteristic of the Jew that
lie meets the milestones of time in a
religions spirit, with worship and
prayer. Not in the wine shop or on
the dance floor, but in the synagogue
does the Jew welcome the changes of
times and seasons. Especially so the
New Year. Unlike others to whom
New Year’s Day is a day of riotous
living and sensual enjoyment, the Jew
considers Rosli ha-Shanah as a day of
spiritual devotion and of religious af
firmation. And so, let my message he
the opening words of an ancient He
brew prayer: Rihono shel olom! Ani
sheloch va-halomosai sheloch (“Master
of the universe! I am Thine and my
dreams arc Thine.”
“I am Thine.” What a fitting ex
pression of the spirit of the day! What
a glorious affirmation! If there is one
truth we are trying to realize during
this holy season more than any other
it is the truth of our dependence on
a Power other than ourselves; it is the
acknowledgment that God is the Source
and the Director of human destiny.
Standing on the threshold of a new
year and filled with awe of the un
certain and the unknown, the Jew rev
erently and humbly bows before God
and confesses His supremacy over all
creation. “I am Thine.” All that I
am, all that I have, all that I have
accumulated is Thine, () God. My health,
my strength, my wealth, my very life
—all is Thine.
True, man has increasingly acquired
control over his immediate environ
ment : he knows more of the condi
tions that make for health and decent
living; he has discovered the instru
ments wherewith greater comfort in
life can be obtained. But what of his
“I”? What of that spark divine that
stamps him as "hut little lower than
the angels”? True, man has learned
a great deal about nature and its work
ings: he can analyze its elements and
synthesize them; harness it to do his
work; exploit it for his convenience.
What do we know of the inmost na
ture of the universe and its forces?
The mystery of the “1”, the secret of
“being” is with God alone.
“And my dreams arc Thine.” That
great power of man, that extraordinary
faculty of his to dream and to vision,
to imagine and to plan, to scheme and
to project—that, too, is God’s.
No other human quality has done
more to make man delude himself into
believing that he' is master of his own
fate than that of dreaming. For it is
a God-like quality to foresee and ap
praise events in advance of their ac
tual happenings; to evaluate results
ahead of time. Dreaming, in the wider
sense of the word, takes man out
of the immediate and the concrete;
it carries him on the wings of im
agination into realms as yet intangible;
it enables him to fashion something
out of nothing, so to say. And many
there are, people of intellect and im
agination, who are so carried away by
this power of theirs to dream that
they stand ready to renounce any de
pendence on a higher power other
than themselves. “By the strength of
my hand,” they repeat the words of
the Assyrian king, “I have done it,
and by my wisdom, for I am prudent.”
Of late there have even been formed
religious societies whose outstanding
tenet is the renunciation of God’s do
minion over man, telling us that today
man is king.
To these the Jew, with the experi
ence of countless centuries behind him,
Rabbi Joseph ( tschen
again proclaims va-halomosai sheloch
mv dreams, too, are Thine. Though
man has the capacity to dream, the
outcome of his dreams is with God.
Dreams are shattered, hopes are
thwarted, carefully laid plans are
wrecked sometimes by the slightest
turn of the weather. Who is he that
can truly say he is master of his own
fate? Who is he that can with any
degree of certainty foretell what the
future has in store for him? That
“there are many devices in a man’s
heart, but the counsel of the Lord,
that shall stand” is as true today as
it was in the days of yore. Whence,
then, the pride and arrogance of the
presumptuous Humanist? It certainly
is not validated by human experience.
If anything, experience has discredited
the cocksureness of the high and the
mighty; if anything, experience should
make 11s humble and reverent.
rhe Jew, of all peoples, has a right
and a duty to affirm the existence of
a Supernatural Power guiding and di
recting the destinies of men and na
tions. Throughout the millennia of our
history, as we watched the centuries
glide by, we have repeatedly seen the
ambitious dreams of tyrants come to
naught; empires built on injustice and
oppression vanish into the limbo of
the forgotten; civilization founded on
brute strength disappears into oblivion.
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