The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, September 09, 1966, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Textr *« : n Friday, September 9, 1966 T H K SOUTHERN ISRAfUTH ^ Georgia Institute of Real Estate i & announces fall classes twice weekly day & evening. $ Advanced courses for broker prior to brokers exam. X Competent instruction in a well established school. | JOHN S. CORRELL, Director >1 3330 Peachtree Road, N.E. Phone 231-1571 New Year Greetings + ♦ Dean’s Firearms & Accessories } ¥ ¥ Complete line of shot guns & pistols, rifles, scopes—chokes— ¥ ammunition and ammunition reloading equipment. New and * used guns. Expert gun repairs on all makes & models. Whole- J sale & retail ¥ * 1126 W. Peachtree N.W. 873-1012 Gracious Holiday Greetings Kinsey Moving & Storage 681 Whitehall St., S.W. 524-5421 Turner Advertising 'J One of the Nation’s Largest $ Outdoor Adv. Firms X 1 24 & 30 Sheet g X Poster Service Painted Bulletins Spectaculars-Neons & Plastic Signs Phone 875-0822 90% of our business is service calls from home and business owners Service work for the individual is our specialty. Immediate attention, round the clock emergency service, a tremendous experience in dealing with a home owner’s service problems are only a few of the many extras that Melton-McKinney offer you. Next time you have a problem, try us—we’ll guarantee your satisfaction. Melton-McKinney'«• 43* K. HOWARD AVE., DECATUR DR. 3 4622—DR. 7-2638 IRA B. MELTON - CHAS. D. McKINNEY, JR. New Year Message Cycle of Life by RABBI SYDNEY K. MOSSMAN Shearith Israel Congregation ATLANTA, GEORGIA We live beyond our daily work Replete with constant strife; By dreams of hope all men exist, And cling to fickle life. I wrote this short poem for my college literary magazine when I was just eighteen years old. I look at this youthful poem and strangely enough the thought it expresses looms as large in my mind today as it did then. As my hours turn into days and my days into years, and all my yesteryears seem only as yesterday, one thought con verges to unite the hours, the days and the years: that living is the experience of learning how to cope with problems but not necessarily how to solve them. Life is indeed filled with constant strife. In my lifetime I have lived through two World Wars; I think it was Secretary MacNamara who counted one hundred and sixty four con flicts in the span of my life time. This on the global scene; what shall I say of the strife that exists between man and his fellow man, a strife that haunts our every footstep. These have not been resolved by our increase in knowledge; the technological triumphs have left the inner man un- solutioned. And if all this were not enough what about the strife within each self? Life is replete with constant strife. Today as the cycle of the year 5726 revolves into 5727, with Rosh Hashana as its turn ing point, I meditate ever more deeply on the constant strife. Is there no end to it? Must peace on earth and peace with in forever elude us? Though my own cycle of years has revolved many times since 1 wrote that poem, in my heart its conclusion remains the same. Perhaps it is naive; if so I am guilty of naivete. But I dream and hope that at least a part of this peace can be found and some of the strife be allayed. I think today of the words of the prophet that we shall say at our selichos ser vices, “Come let us reason to gether saith the Lord’’, that if only we human beings can learn how to reason together we can bring our dreams to fruition and our hopes to real ity. It is this power of man that can change our worlds. If we could only reason together in Vietnam, across the iron cur tain, over the Berlin Wall, un der the boundaries of Israel, atop the loftiness of space, in the deep reaches of our hearts, then nations and men could truly learn how to live togeth er. If black and white could only reason together what miracles we could accomplish. The constant strife rises from the paradox that we reason but never together. We reason only from our own base and our own conclusions but not to gether. Rosh Hashana and Yom Kip- pur turning again in the cycle of our years teach us that through our reflections on these sacred days, through our meditations, through our pray ers we can learn to reason to gether, with G-d and with our fellow man. They are our eternal symbols that “By dreams of hope all men exist and cling to fickle life.’’ Thus we pray that in the coming year we shall be granted yet another lease on fickle life in order that once again we may seek to redeem our hope and fulfill our dream of bringing to an end this constant strife' by following the words of our G-d who said “Come let us reason together.” 'WWVWWWWVWWWWWWWWWWX/^AAAAA/WVWW Joyous Greetings Accurate Weather Strip & Screen Co JOHN CREA, Manager 249 Simpson St., S. W. JA. 5-1500 NVWWAMWIMAWWWWMAWWWWWWWVWWWWVtfMWWINVVWWIWM naif! miv H. SUNSHINE & SON, Inc. Gertrude and Stanley Friedman 142 Walker St., S.W. Atlanta, Ga. Distributor of Kosher Products ^»>»»»»»»»»»»»»»»^ N/ S P ecia IMoUay Cjrecli tuji >/ >/ >/ >/ >/ N/ > / >^2773 N. Decatur Rd. V >/ ^ ^ Decatur, Ga. V/ V/ >/ A. S. 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