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Friday, Sept 13, 1963
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Plain Talk — By Alfred Segal
I Speak Up to Rabbis
remembering Him when they’re
grown up and expected to live up
to Him.
And thanks to my Proteetant
friend who prompted thia column
A Protestant friend of mine In
our town calls on me to discuss
the matter of kids praying in the
public schools . . . "Oh, Segal,
there’s so much talk lately about
children joining in prayer in the
schoolrooms. And the public now
is waiting for another judgment
of our U. S. Supreme Court on
whether that’s OK, in accordance
with American principles. And as
a liberal-minded Christian I feel
hurt because so many of our rab
bis are against brief prayer in
the public schools.
“And, really, I ask you, ‘What’s
the matter with speaking to God
in our schoolhouses? Are arith
metic and geography, etc., all
there is for those kids to learn
in school? Isn’t there also some
thing for their hearts as well as
well as for their struggling minds.
"Moreover, why should rabbis
protest against speaking up to
God in a public school room? Isn’t
He the God of all of us and
shouldn’t the children know Him
as well as arithmetic? I’m not
saying that prayer in school
houses should be given in accord
ance with the Christian faith.
There’s prayer which all of us can
conscientiously utter to the One
God of all of us . . . all the chil
dren speaking to the One God to
gether in the school rooms. That
should help toward the brother
hood of man . . . kids learning to
speak to God together . . . wheth
er they are Jewish, Christian or
Mohammedan, or Buddhist.”
He’s at my desk to ask me to
write here a piece for all rabbis
to read toward getting them to
speak up for God in the public
schools.
“Really,” he asks, “are geo
graphy and arithmetic enough in
school? Isn’t the teaching to live
up to the highness of God as im
portant, if really not more im
portant? God has to do with the
way we live in the world, and
isn’t that as worthwhile In a
boy’s or girl’s life as to know
that 1 plus 1 makes 2?
“Segal, please write a piece on
that subject, addressed to all the
rabbis!”
And so I write:
“Dear rabbis: Yes, I myself re
call the prayer we kids spoke
together In the classroom, long,
long ago in my life. We stood
at our desks and spoke to God,
before we started on arithmetic
or spelling. We all said together:
“Dear Lord God, please help us
to keep going in the right way.
Please teach us to be good to our
neighbors and to take our own
lives good. Thanks, dear God.”
Then we all sat and took up
our spelling lesson or our arith
metic. I remember Johnny An
derson who sat at the desk be
side me in the schoolroom. One
day at recess time, Johnny said to
me: “It’s good, don’t you think
... all of us speaking to God to
gether every morning?”
Yes, it seems that Johnny was
of more wisdom that I had then.
He seemed, even in his young
time of life to understand the
high meaning of all of us speak
ing to God together. And, sure
enough, kids speaking to Him to
gether may in time come to the
Idea that He’s the God of all of
us . . . and what’s that religious
quarreling all about?
Sure enough, dear rabbis, why
not prayer in school rooms each
morning . . . prayer to the One
God we all know? And why, gen
tlemen, should He be kept out of
all the school houses? Why not
invite Him in together with arith
metic, geography, etc.?
I’m thinking of some utterances
out of our prayer book which
could be spoken in any class
room, such as:
“The Lord is righteous in all
His ways, and loving in all His
works.”
“The Lord is nigh unto all them
that call upon Him, to all who
call upon Him In truth.”
And also this:
“May it be Thy will, O Lord
our God and God of our fathers,
to make us familiar with Thy
Law and to make us serve Thy
commandments.”
“Make us cleave to good
works.”
“O, my God, guard my tongue
from evil, and my lips from
speaking guile.”
Yes, my dear rabbis, what's
wrong with such education each
day in our public schools? . . .
along with geography, arithmetic
and spelling? Though these
prayers are out of the Jewish
prayer books, they are of all the
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hearts of the human kind, re
gardless of the altars at which
they bow.
Please, rabbis, let all the kids
speak to God, as long as they’re . -
in the public schools . . . toward for the Jewish press.
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