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of matter. . . “Man, in a word
has not a nature; what he has
is history. What nature is to a
thing, history is to man. . .
Man. . . finds that he has no
nature other than what he him
self has done.” Simply that,
man's nature is determined by
what he does with his life.
"O Lord what is man?” asks
the Psalmist, and he answers:
“Thou hast made him a little
lower than the angels.” The
implication is that man’s na
ture is undetermined, man has
the possibilities, the power
within himself to develop, to
use his gifts, to rise and ulti
mately by his accomplish
ments permit a description of
what he is; what his individual
nature is.
That man is not a thing to
be studied from the outside as
any other part of matter, is
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further indicated by the Kab-
belists who had a sounder ap
proach to the understanding of
man than the scientists.
“Believe not,” the Zohar ex
horts, “that man consists solely
of flesh, skin, bones, and
veins, the real part of man is
his soul, and the things just
mentioned, the skin, flesh,
bones, and veins, are only an
outward covering, a veil, but
are not man.”
The biblical assertion that
man is formed in the image of
God, places him above natural
phenomena. It expresses his
potentiality to grow through
his freedom of will; to become
more than what he is; to make
history.
This biblical thought, this
charge, that man is free to act,
free to become what he wills,
that he can use his life and
make something of it, is echoed
in the Aggadik teachings of
the sages who urge man to say:
“The world was created for
me,” that is, it depends upon
the individual for what the
world is and how it can be. In
other words, what the world
is and can be depends upon
man. The world without is a
reproduction of the world
within man. Society is what
man wills it to be. There is no
one to blame.
In short, man is what has
happened to him, but even
more, what he makes to hap
pen: what he does with his
life; and what he does with his
life defines his nature.
In praying for a New Year,
a year of peace, a year free
from the many disturbing
problems with which our soci
ety is beset, we must bear in
mind that the solution to these
problems is in the hand of
man. The prayers we offer
cannot and will not bring about
any changes. The prayers are
agents which are meant to stir
man to noble action.
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