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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Sept. 5, 1969
NEW YEAR MESSAGE
Victory of the Spirit
By RABBI JACOB M. ROTHSCHILD
Temple, Atlanta
Once again we Jews will
gather to greet and welcome
a New Year. We come to
gether sharing our sorrows
and our joys, our fears and
our hopes. Looking back we
can behold with angry cha
grin mankind’s dismal fail
ures even as we remember
with glowing excitement its
magnificent triumphs. We
have been forced to endure a
soul-shattering contradiction
between potential and
achievement. We have been
witness to the miracle of
man’s mind as it unravels the
mystery of the universe. And
we have watched in an
agony of soul and spirit
man’s mind as it unravels the
genius to create a world of
peace and plenty on his own
small earth.
This was the year when
man found the moon but lost
himself on earth. Apollo
rocketed from its pad pre-
New Year Greetings
Murry Fixture Company
62 Alabama Street, S.W. 524-7280
Restaurant equipment & supplies
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Forrester A ^Jfou/erA, ^9nc.
2070 Cheshire Bridge Rd., N.E. / Atlanta, Ga. 30324
Pfione 634-7378
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Diners Club, and Master Charge
New Year Greetings
H & S Woodcraft Co
351—2630
Cabinet Making—Where Service and Quality are a Speciality
U.S. Highway 41 Smyrna, Ga.
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New Year Greetings
Bill’s Delivery Service
835 Wylie St., S.E.
Atlanta, Ga.
522-0630
cisely on a schedule measur
ed in milli-seconds. Yet we
lagged light years behind
schedule in solving problems
of poverty and disease. This
was a year when man walk
ed on the moon yet feared
to walk the streets of his own
cities. Our astronauts gave
us chills of patriotic fervor
as they raised the American
flag on a heavenly body 250,-
000 miles away. Yet we re
mained singularly unmoved
by pictures of that same
flag on those same television
screens waving over the
carnage and death of war in
Viet Nam. Was not this year,
that the grand and glorious
affirmation “We come in
peace for all mankind” was
proudly planted on the sur
face of the moon, the same
year in which men fight and
die hopelessly along the Suez
and in Biafra and how many
other trouble spots on earth?
What surely was the most
monumental achievement in
the long history of man’s life
on earth is thus clouded by
his own awareness of his
own failures and short
comings. We ought to be the
proudest, happiest, most con
fident generation that ever
lived. But we are not. Indeed,
quite to the contrary, we
may well be the most fright
ened, most insecure, unhap-
piest people the world has
ever known. And it is in such
a mood of uncertainty, disil
lusionment, growing dissatis
faction with ourselves that
we come now to observe this
Rosh Hashana of the year
5730.
What can it say to us—
this day of the spirit, this
day of the soul, this day of
reckoning? Its message is
contained in the comforting
and challenging words of an
ancient poet of our people
who prayed: “Renew a stead
fast spirit within me.” It is
man’s renewed spirit that
will enable him to use his
vast potential for good and
not for evil. And it is the
constantly recurring theme of
this Holy Day to remind man
that he dare not give way
to despair and melancholy,
that it is within his power
to fashion a happy life and
a decent world.
Let this be the message of
our New Year. May it serve
to lift us up to our own great
promise and dispel the clouds
of pessimism and fear. May
it send us forth with renew
ed hope and faith in man’s
own ability to create a world
of purpose and of meaning.
And may its days see the nar
rowing of that wide chasm
that lies between what we
are and what we want to be
NEW YEAR GREETINGS
Entrekin’s Market
MUNICIPAL MARKET
239 Edgewood Ave. MU. 8-0315
Atlanta, Ga.
‘Quality Meats’
NEW YEAR GREETINGS
CORRESPONDENCE, INC.
Answering Buckhead at
CE 3-1196
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NEW YEAR GREETINGS
RALEY BROS., INC.
186 PETERS ST., S. W.
ATLANTA, GA.
MU. 8-1400
NEW YEAR
GREETINGS
To The Jewish Community
McConnell Cloth Shops
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New Year Greetings
H. SUNSHINE & SON, Inc.
Gertrude and Stanley Friedman
176 Ottley Dr., N. E. Atlanta, Ga.
Distributor of Kosher Products
NEW YEAR GREETINGS
SIMMONS SERVICE
STANDARD OIL DEALER
Curtis G. Simmons - Owner
2957 N. DRUID HILLS ROAD
In The Heart of Toco Hills Shopping Center
636-4093