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TBK SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, October 1, IMS
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to visit Atlantafs OLDEST Genuine
Chinese & American Restaurant
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION: “The Very Beat!"
28'* CAIN ST., M.E- JA. I-CTM
Half Bloet East of Henry Grady Hotel
• Authentic Cantonese Chinese Food
4 Delicious American Food
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NORMAN
PAZOL
sends all his
friends and
customers
a heartfelt
“Le Shona Tow"
and wishes them all a very
happy and prosperous
New Year
He mvites them to come see him jor their auto needs
NORMAN PAZOL
Sales Representative
JIM LETTS OLDSMOBILE, INC.
The Home of OLDSMOBILE and VANGUARD
ga PEACHTREE RD., N.E. 231-1980
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
OFF THE RECORD by Nathan Ziprin
An Erev Y om Kippur Confession
Have you ever been in a sub
way on a hot day in New York
during the rush hour?
Its only imaginable counterpart
is hell on post-judgment day.
Yet it was on a very day like
that and under those circum
stances that I came to earn a
mitzvah and gain a deeper under
standing of the segment of Jewry
to which Y am still rooted in many
ways.
I had been standing on my
feet for about thirty minutes,
swaying to the harsh and uneven
rhythm of the train, when a
merciful passenger vacated his
seat and I fell into it. But before
I could savor the taste of my
good fortune, two bearded Jews
came walking toward me. Both
were elderly and one of them was
supported by a cane. Both wore
long kaftans, buttoned on the left
side in the manner of the pious
of heart.
As I arose to give my seat to
the eleder of the two, I whisper
ed that I was bending in remem
brance of the Biblical adjuration
to rise before the sage, the leder.
Very frankly, I had hoped this
would open the door to a conver
sation, for I am always delight
ed to encounter bearded Jews, a
rapidly vanishing tribe In Amer
ica today, particularly if they
give semblance of learning or
piety. But they both remained
silent, and I felt disturbed. Sure
ly, it occured to me, they must
have thought this clean-shaven,
hatless, unbearded Jew was quot
ing holy text in vain if not in de
rision.
But I would not let them
dwell in that error. Whispering
I remarked to the younger of
the two: “I am delighted that a
mitzvah has come my way. We
earn so few of them even when
we pursue them and here one
has come to me when I least ex
pected it and I am glad.”
Now the two must have real
ized that I recalled the Biblical
passage in awe and not in deris
ion, and their faces became rad
iant as if saying it is good to
meet “a yid” even in this city
with so many Jews.
The train was heading for my
destination with speed that would
seemingly preclude continued
conversation and I was sad. Here
was a moment to which I wanted
to hold on much longer and it
was vanishing rapidly, but I was
saved, not by a miracle but by
the eternal habit of our subway
trains to halt in hesitation be
tween stations.
“Young man.” the elder of the
two Jews said to me as the train
slowed its pace, “you seem to
me a yeray shomayim, a man
possessed with awe of God, but
what 1 can’t understand is that
a man like you goes about fllu
rosh, with uncovered head.” How
does one encounter a situation
like that? Rationalizing in such
cases is the most ineffective of
tools. In addition I was frankly
reluctant by now to shatter the
Jew’s image of me not so much
for myself as for him.
“Reb Yid,” I replied, “you
raised an interesting but not an
unanswerable question, but one
whose answering for me must
take more time than we can spend
on this train on an erev shabos
day. We have it from Talmudic
tome that all questions will be
answered when Messiah comes,
we both, I am sure, are waiting
for Messiah, let us then wait to
gether for the answer to your
question.”
“No,” replied the second Jew
as if awakening from a dream,
“Messiah will only answer ques
tions to which there had hither
to been no answers. This one has
already been answered.”
When I got out of the subway
into the fresh air, I began con
templating the gulf that was our
two worlds—the world of these
two Orthodox Jews and mine-—
but as my head cleared in the
exhilirating outdoor it dawned
on me that in reality the three
of us were of one world, united
in quest of the bridge on which
redemption will come.
Let the sophisticates and pun
dits challenge the meaning of this
thought. But to me, I must con
fess, it has one meaning—that the
Jew in beard and peoth and this
shaven one are in reality one and
the same person, bound by ties
that are stronger than the dif
ferences that seperate them.
BRIGADIER GENERAL
Eugene Oberdorfer,
PRESIDENT
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