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PrUUy, Sept. 27, IMS
A Reconstructionist at
by HARRY SIMONHOFF
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Kidge mountains of North Caro
lina, have been inspiring events.
Scholars of national reputation
often address the assembled vis
itors from several states and the
discussions are stimulating and
satisfying. Among the more form
al lectures the Institute of Juda
ism sometimes injects controver
sial subjects which supply the to-
basco sauce for the intellectual
repasts.
In the 1963 session Dr. Alex
ander Altmann of Brandeis Uni
versity lectured on Moses Mend-
lessohn, Herman Cohen, and
Franz Rosenweig. Pi*»f. R. J. Zwi
Werblowsky of Israel spake on
comparative religion. The contH>-
versial subject of Reconstructed-
ist Judaism was delineatedJby
Rabbi A. A. Wolf Miller. |
Some of the audience were
shocked to hear that the God of
Israel is not supernatural but is
a natural Deity and therefore
could not create heaven and earth.
Furthermore this God is a cruel
monster, or he would not order
Moses to ‘smite the inhabitants
of that city with the edge of the
sword, destroying it utterly and
all that is therein, and the cattle
thereof with the edge of the
sword.” Nor was Judaism derived
from Abraham or revealed on Mt.
Sinai, but according to Sigmund
Freud monotheism came from the
Pharoah Aknathon through Moses,
who was himself a pure blooded
Egyptian. The Bible is a nauseat
ing, vicious book, full of murder,
rape, immorality, obscenity and
cruelty. It is ridiculous to main
tain that we are a Chosen Peo
ple, especially with such a hu
mane code as ‘‘an eye for an eye,
etc.”
Were these the words of a Jew-
hating Voltaire, or Goebles? No!
They were uttered by the rabbi
of the Society for the Advance
ment of Judaism, the center of
the Reconstruction movement.
Nor do they represent his orig
inal thinking. For in the second
century C.E. such were the argu
ments employed by Marcion, the
Gnostic in his attempts to ex
punge the Hebrew Scriptures
from the Bible and delete all
Jewish influences from the new
Christianity. The great historian,
Edward Gibbon, in Chapter XV
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of his Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire writes:
‘The Mosaic account of the
creation and fall of man was
treated with profane derision by
the gnostics, who would not lis
ten with patience to the repose
of the Deity after six days’ labor,
to the rib of Adam, the garden
of Eden, the tree of life and of
knowledge, the speaking serpent,
the forbidden fruit, and the con
demnation pronounced against
humankind for the venial offense
of their first progenitors. The con
quest of the land of Canaan, and
the extirpation of the unsuspect
ing natives, they were at a loss
how to reconcile with the com
mon notion of humanity and jus
tice. The God of Israel was im
piously represented by the gnos
tics as being liable to passion and
to error, capricious in his favors,
implacable in his resentment,
meanly jealous of his superstiti
ous worship, and confining his
partial providence to a single
people and to this transitory life. "
We can understand these blas
phemies coming from Judeo-
phobes intent on disparaging the
Jews, their mission and their
Torah. But what are the objec
tives of a rabbi in castigating his
own people for discovering the
one and only God, revered by
half of the world’s population,
and the most advance half at that.
Listening to Rabbi Miller one
gets the impression that he
derives a sadistic pleasure in be
smirching the Book of Books,
sanctified by long generations of
prophets, scribes, tannaim, geo-
nim, as well as by philosophers,
theologians, moralists, Jewish and
Christian.
Rabbi Miller was questioned as
to why he went that same morn
ing to the orthodox service in the
chapel, put on tephillim, wrapped
himself in a talith, and davin ap
parently with deep fervor? Did
he pray to the God of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob as set out in the
sidor? He answered: ‘-‘to the god
I recognize.” But what is the
character of this god who has
neither personality nor attributes,
nor is supernatural? The answer,
as far as I could ascertain, was a
natural god, a sort of mass of
yeast, fermenting in the universe,
which influences the moral na
ture of man. Yet the rabbi who
rejects El Elyon, the Torah and
the Talmud refuses to perform a
marriage ceremony unless the di
vorced party has also a Jewish
divorce. When asked to explain
this inconsistency, he refused.
As we sat listening we felt that
obviously here was a sick man
who felt impelled to get even
with somebody. Or was the desire
to shock a reaction to the strict
discipline of the orthodox home
in which he was reared? And yet
this self-confessed atheist does
cling to a prophet, who for him
evidently combines and even su
persedes all the wisdom of Moses,
Isaiah and Maimonides.
This seer is Sigmund Freud.
Vicious Hate
Propaganda
Wave in Denver
DENVER (JTA)—Members of
the Colorado Legislature were
among recipients of a vicious
anti-Semitic publication, one of
a series of such mailings locally,
marking a record August month
of dissemination of such material
in Denver.
The. legislators received copies
of ‘‘The Coming Red Dictator
ship,” a publication of the late
Conde McGinley who died earlier
this year. The publication pur
ports to describe the “Asiatic
Marxist Jews” controlling the
world. Auto wrecking company
owners received an anonymous
publication called, "The Blueprint
For World Government Jew Dom
ination.” Beauty parlor operators
also reported receiving anti-Sem
itic material.
Freud’s book, Mom and Mono
them lam, was written in his dot
age and published several months
before his death. This final work,
examined by scholars and critics,
by Jews and Christians the world
over, was dismissed as hogwash.
Yet this absurd thesis of untruths
and nonsense is to Rabbi Miller
what the Torah, the Talmud anu
the Cabbala is to a Hassid in Wil-
liamsberg. Doesn’t this necessity
to lean upon Sigmund Freud
betray a subconscious need to be
psychoanalized? What else can
be done for a person who reduces
I AM THAT I AM to a cake of
yeast?
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