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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Sept. 5, 1969
New Year /greetings
IDEAL MUSIC
COMPANY
S4 Forsyth St., S.W.
' 521-0043
Atlanta, Ga.
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instruments.
Why The Knife —
Why The Sheep?
By Jack Siegel
Every New Year, the Syna
gogue becomes a hall of confes
sional. Everybody brings his
inner stories and conflicts. These
are set off in prayer as the age-
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old drama of Abraham and Isaac
versus God is re-enacted. Those
who know the mythic tale re
live it; for those new to the leg
end, it is an absorbing story of a
father who was prepared to sac
rifice his son for God. No greater
love to make such a sacrifice.
That God is said to have sent an
Angel emissary to prevent the
action is supposed to indicate
that some sacrifices which hu
mans are ready to make are
senseless. It somehow does not
sufficiently explain His earlier
role in the request pimply to test
Abraham’s loyalty. But sacrifice
could be a theme of the New
Year.
The dictionary offers several
meanings for the word and one
of the most interesting is: to
rpake sacred. It is holy to give
up something of value, not as an
atonement, but to achieve a bet
ter end. God’s demand on Abra
ham was a test of his loyalty. It
was perhaps also part of the
ethos of a time when human
sacrifice was both abundant and
accepted. There are parts of the
world where it is still performed.
Mostly on self. Immolation is an
act acceptable to certain relig
ions and people but still shocks
the western mind. But after a
while the drama dissipates.
Nothing, it seems, is more expen
dable than the human being.
The Jews, from time im
memorial, have been the physi
cal expression of sacrifice. They
are truly the experts. But how
do you pierce behind the phy
sical phenomena to the concept
itself, how do you evaluate the
need to sacrifice, the purpose
and the end of such an act?
Much of the thrust of modern
day conceptualizing, both tel
eological and secular, is to divide
the stampede of current events,
to create insights enabling us to
understand the onslaughts on our
bodies and sensibilities. While
no man today would sacrifice a
son as Abraham was prepared to
do. thousands watch their sons
go to their death daily. Sacrifice
therefore, has to be separated, as
the wheat from the chaff, the
concept from the act, in order to
understand the human value in
both.
Perhaps these are times which
call for sacrifice, or as Mr.
Webster defined it, “to give up
or surrender in favor of a higher
or more imperative duty or
claim.” But everywhere you
look at the globe, there is con
flict. There is a limit to the
amount of sacrifice one can
make. • Maybe one should start
asking questions the way Isaac
did, enroute to his near-death:
Why the knife, why the sheep.
Why? Why? Perhaps then, we
should re-examine our whole
history, recapitulate it in the
light of the contributions we
have made to civilization: The
Bible, Rabbis of the Renaissance
times, young Marx the Human
ist (not the economist) who
spoke ot the alienation of the
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spirit and Freud who probed it.
And then say, an end to sac
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and symbolically, an end to sur
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631 Lee Street. S.W.
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