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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
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PNWfcy, April 12, 1963
PI.AIN TALK—By
About
I have on my desk a letter
from a gentleman who on the day
he wrote it was observing his
80th birthday. (‘‘And please,” he
write*, “don’t print my name or
the name of my home-town out
here in the West.")
He says that the 80th birthday
problem on which he’s writing is
too personal for his name to be
widely published in this column
. . . “At age 80 I have been think
ing that maybe I haven’t much
longer to stay in the world, and
what is to become of me when
I go.”
There are very few other Jews
in his small town and no rabbi
of whom to ask where he’s going
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Alfred Segal
Getting to Heaven
after he dies . . "So, Segal, I’m
asking you: What’s the Jewish
idea on that. I have a fine daugh
ter in another city who has writ
ten me that a man like me can be
sure that he will get high in
heaven ”
"And 1 have a good son who
tells me: ‘Papa, isn’t a man suc
cessfully high enough when he
leaves, at his death, worthwhile
sons and daughters and a good
name in the world. And your life,
papa, has reached that high
worthwhileness in the world,
and by that you’ll keep on living
in the world through the lives
of your children, grandchildren,
etc. Cheer up.’
“Yes, that’s what my good son
thinks about me and my future,
in the letter which he wrote me
from the city where he lives so
successfully. He wrote me this in
response to a question I asked of
his wisdom when I was a ftw
days from 80.
“And well, Segal, what do you
think about it all? Your articles
in the Jewish paper at times
cause me to believe that you may
be a wise guy, after all . . . and
maybe you, too, can provide
some counsel as to what will be
come of me, and all others of us
after we’ve gone from this earth.
And, please Segal, speak up to
the rabbis in your column to ask
them what they think about
that.”
And I reply: Oh, dear sir, con
gratulations on your having
lived well all of 80 years, and
there should be reward for such
a man. I’m thinking of what Is
aiah preached about righteous
living. He seems to put heaven
down here among us, on the
earth.
Isaiah goes on “And with
righteousness shall he judge the
poor and reprove wth equity for
the meek of the earth . . . and
righteousness shall be the girdle
of his loins, and faithfulness in
the girdles of his reins.”
Yes, my dear sir, this prophet
seem to set heaven and the Lord
down here on the earth, in ac
cordance with the way we live
our lives. We make heaven down
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here for ourselves and for our
kids. And there’s hell down here
also or those who run with the
devil, as he’s called.
Oh, sir, I myself . this Segal,
that is . . . feel it’s heavenly re
ward enough for him to have
brought up worthwhile sons who
have given him good grandchil
dren . . . seven of 'em. And when
the time comes that I must get
off the earth, I’ll be thinking:
Well, anyway, I feel quite suc
cessful, in accordance with what
Mr. Isaiah said about one being
a heavenly guy down here on
this earth. And isn’t that success
enough?
Not that I’ve been altogether
heavenly in my mays, but I’ve
tried to be fairly decent in the
upbringing of my children ... so
that by their lives they will pro
vide some reward for my life
after it has gone from the sur
face of the earth, and deep down
into it. That’ll be heaven enough
for me.
And I hope that at the funeral
service the rabbi will say for me:
Here before us lies a person who
wasn’t sure there'., a heaven for
him to get to; yet he did fairly
well to make this earth good . . .
to bring up worthwhile sons, to
keep his own name respected, to
try his best to walk with God
down here. And, anyway, if
there’s a heaven this guy should
get there; but may he rest in
divine peace deep down in the
earth which he’s about to enter,
and on which he tried to live
heavenly.
So, speaking more directly to
the 80-year-old man who on his
80th birthday wrote to ask me
what’s to become of him after
he leaves this earth, I say to him:
Sir, I guess you and I shall go
deep down in the earth, but we
shall stay brightly alive atop the
earth in our worthwhile children,
our grandchildren and . . . let’s
hope ... in our great-great-great
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Well, but I confess that even becomes of us after we’re
a columnist doesn’t know it all; through with the earth? And,
so I’m handing the problem on really, is there a heaven for us?
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