Taking out the Torah, Praying with your feet

 This is what we hear.  It's solid. 

https://www.ansheemet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Shema-Echad-Gadlu.mp3

What the   Shema and Echad Eloheinu of Solomon Sulzer (1804-1890)  were meant to sound like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWdqP0KDqJ0

Elgar:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK6rsZ4S4ik  at 150

Hail to the C:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFhgdZOP9Fk

One version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsnJpv2BU6g  at 1:41

Our melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwBg6vz0w7M

 

 

1.      POST IT  WARMUP

a.      What do you  know about jewish participation in the civil rights movement?

b.      What was at issue?  What were Jews trying to do? Which jews participated?

 

 

2.      BRAINTSTORM:

a.      Why were jews drawn to civil rights?

 

b.      Why did jews stay out?

                                                    i.     Fear:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Benevolent_Congregation_Temple_bombing

http://jwa.org/sites/jwa.org/files/mediaobjects/TheTemple-_bombing_photo_-_have_permission.JPG

Perry Nussbaum

                                                   ii.     Bigotry--  See letters from Congregations and Eisendrath

https://youtu.be/_SQtTK4nnWI

http://jwa.org/sites/jwa.org/files/mediaobjects/RabbiEisnedrathFromHUC19560501_1of2.jpg

http://jwa.org/sites/jwa.org/files/mediaobjects/RabbiEisnedrathFromHUC19560501_2of2.jpg

http://jwa.org/sites/jwa.org/files/mediaobjects/UAHCFromHUC19631107.jpg

 

Not all jews stayed out of the way:

https://forward.com/news/472284/were-southern-jews-in-the-civil-rights-era-inside-agitators/

 

The woman who would not just be a widow

  https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-murder/

Three workers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnefNkvFsD0

Searching:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2ssdtB-sAI

 

        

 

The man  with the hardest job in the world that day  

Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hw8N2XF6Hk

Mahalia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hQeGDSB6Ss at 1:30pm

The speech:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIJ0Pr7JBY8

 

Talmud Bavli, Shabbat 54b
Whoever can prevent his household from committing a sin but does not, is responsible for the sins of his household; if he can prevent the people of his city, he is responsible for the sins of his city; if the whole world, he is responsible for the sins of the whole world.
 
Rav Ya'akov Emden (Germany, 1697-1776) She'elat Ya'betz
משא"כ באדם חשוב שמוטל עליו להציל עשוק מיד עשקו בכל אופן שיוכל, אם בגופו או בהשתדלותו, יהי' העשוק מי שהי'. כענין שאמר איוב, ואשברה מתלעות עול, וכתוב במרע"ה ויקם ויושיען, אע"פ שבנות כומר היו
What is not like this is an adam chashuv/person of importance or power has the obligation to rescue the oppressed from the hands of the oppressor by all means available to him, whether by direct action or through political effort, regardless of whether the oppressed is Jewish. So Job praised himself by saying "I have broken the teeth of evil", and the Torah says of Moses that "He arose and championed them", referring to the daughters of Jethro, even though they were the daughters of an pagan priest . . . .

 

 

 

 

 

TROPE: TRUE AND FALSE

 

1.    The Masoretes who first recorded the tropes in writing  were the only Jewish group who survived the Romans destroying Jerusalem in 70 CE.

 

2.   Most Tropes occur plenty in the Torah,  but the  Karnei Parah only occurs once in all the tropes found for the Torah.

 

 

3.   The Tevir changes depending on who it is with,  but the munach is always the same.

 

4.   The Munach changes depending on who it is with.  The Etnachtah is always the same.

 

 

5.    Kadmah  and Azlah  are a pair of tropes that mean “coming and going.”

 

6.   Torah Trope is in a darker, minor key, while Haftorah tropes are in a brighter, major key.

 

7.    Reform Jews don’t use trope anymore.  They read the  Torah without tropes in Hebrew in their temples to make it simpler and more modern. 

 

8.   Three families of tropes-  Etnachtah,  Katon,  and Sof Pasuk make up between 2/3^rds and 3/4^ths  of most Torah and Haftorah readings.

 

9.   In an Ashkenazi community,  there are actually nine different versions of tropes including Torah, Haftorah, Aicha and Esther.

 

10.                   The trope names come from the names of plants in ancient Israel-  for example, Tevir means rose.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

 

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

 

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor[1].

Abraham Joshua Heschel

It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

 

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

 

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

 

 

 

Prophecy is the voice that God has lent to the silent agony, a voice to the plundered poor, to the profane riches of the world. It is a form of living, a crossing point of God and man. God is raging in the prophet's words.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

 

 

 

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[1] ardor: a strong feeling of energy or eagerness, a strong feeling of love