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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Sept. I, 1H1
Papa’s Long White Garment
by ALFRED SEGAL
On Rosh Hashonah my father
used to dress up in schul. He put
on a long, white linen garment
with flowing sleevs. Tha was
long, long ago . . . when I was a
small kid. All over the congre
gation papas were dressed that
way . . to bow to the judgement
of God on the New Year day.
(In these later times some of
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the older ones still present them
selves to the Almighty in this
garb of pure white . . as if to
tell Him, “Here I am, and how
pure I look! I hope, good God,
that I look to you just as white
inside”)
One Rosh Hashonah morning
when I was about 6 years old
and had begun to ask a lot of
questions about things in the
world, I turned to my father in
schul; I was sitting beside him
there.
“Papa,” I asked him, “why are
you wearing this.” I meant the
white gown in which he was
reading the service.
“Shush, shush,” he replied and
kept on reading out of the book.
He paused for another instant to
say, “I can’t tell you now. Later!”
So, later, when we were on
the way home from schul, he
began: “You were asking me why
I was wearing the long white
gown. I’m happy you asked that.
It’s good for a boy to learn the
fine things of being Jewish.
“Well, you see, Alfred, it has
to do with my looking all right
before God on this day which is
the first day of the year ... to
look as clean as the white I was
wearing as I stood there before
Him in the schul.”
“But you have that nice, new
black suit on,” I replied. “Isn’t
that enough to wear?”
Papa replied: “You don’t un
derstand. I wore that long white
shirt to tell God how clean I
want to be through the year. I
would want to be as white as that
all year . . .. every day. You see.
on Rosh Hashonah we all try to
look our best before God who
judges us that day.”
“You looked so nice, papa, in
that long white shirt,” I said
“You must have looked all right
to God.”
But papa said he didn’t mean
just to make a showing to God
on the outside . . “You see,” he
said, “the main thing is to be as
clean as whiteness inside of you.
It doesn’t make me clean just to
look white and clean on the out
side.”
“But you sure did look swell!”
I exclaimed. “God sure must
have liked the way you looked.
I like it, too.”
Papa went on to say that a
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