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THE WISCONSIN JtWISH CHRONICLE April 4, 1947 Meaning Freedom By Rabbi Alexander J. Burnstein Egypt but also led his freed peo- pie to Mt. Sinai and there gave them a sublime purpose for which to live, by proclamation the wor- ship of the One God and the sa-credness and inviolability of hu-! man lif. We. too.

reauire that For Easter CHOCOLATE CONFECTIONS and CANDY NOVELTIES assover Dainty Lunches and Afternoon Tea THERE IS NO other festival in ority to what all men have in courage if we are to achieve peace the Jewish Calendar so universal common over what differentiates and security and freedom and and appealing in its message as every man from every other man, overcome the forces of moral in-is Passover. Passover is primarily can know the full and vital mean- ertja which retard man's slow as-the festival of freedom. The dream ing of this freedom to be human. cent to civilization, decency, and of freedom is no new thing in Unless we have faith in man, pjety, and threaten to drop him human life. For the idea which there can be no really or signi- int0 the destruction.

We it represents men have been ready ficantly free world. It is not can ise the freedom which we to sacrifice themselves in every sentimental idealization of hu- have WOn and the peace which is age, and the course of human manity; you cannot add ignorance as yet to be achieved by suspicion, development may be traced, at to ignorance and get wisdom, or ignorance, defeatism, scepticism, least in recent times, by the an- unite a mass of selfish indivi- ancj irresolution. We shall not swers men have given to its chal- duals and get a common spirit of inpse jnto peace and freedom by lenge. But Israel alone has given devotion to high ends. The voice evasion, but we can render them the principle of freedom classic of the people is not the voice of secure if we put our heads to-and religious expression at its God.

But confidence in man gether and support them with an very inception as a people, and means that the whole of men can aujant.e based on a dynamic con-Jewish tradition enshrined its his- better be trusted to go Drn them- ception of freedom, recognizing toric liberation from Egyptian selves, than we can trust one man tne rjght of each group and na-slavery in the Feast of Passover, or a few to have absolute power tjon to jive and to shape its own The word "freedom" means over their fellows. It is the belief nfe ancj pii)n its own develop-many different things to different that in the end, as in the vlays of ment for the welfare of all men people. We all want to be free; Moses, if there be education and I not 0f an institution, whether but what is freedom, when are a chance to know the truth ar.d a church or State, not of a class or BAKERY GOODS and PASTRIES SODAS ICES THE FESTIVAL II II 31 May our observance of Passover strenjtfhen our appreciation of liberty and our will to defend it to the last. May the efforts of all freedom-loving people, under God's guidance, break the power of Pharoahs to come so that all mankind may achieve lasting liberty and peace. CHOCOLATES "Taste and Compare" 327 E.

Wisconsin Avenue DAly 3510 we free? Let us have the cour- run discussion or issues, me com- croup, noble or Nordic or super-age to admit that modern man's mon people will find then- way man Dut of men as men. The concept of freedom has been in to what is just and right. And iesson 0f Passover must be re-most cases one of rebellion, a neg- that, of course, involves a deeper if wo are to integrate men ative idea. It has meant, at least faith, the faith in truth and ins- nd- in a new and better i in recent centuries, freedom from i tice themselves. an(i free (Copyright, i various forms of despotism, aristo- 1947) cracy.

plutocracy and hierarcny. WE NEED THAT faith today. We have established our right to 1 without it, all our international! freedom on the emotional basis of institutions for the establishment The Meanifiq OT RellQIOn our repudiation im.iitn auic oi collective security i-uimui bonds political, social, religious, amount to much. They will be- "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up economic, and ideological. We tray man, because the men wholly voice like a trumpet, and de-have wanted freedom as a protest, lead them will always remain fo mv their trans-It has always been freedom from 1 first Englishmen.

un, my. -something, or freedom of some- Russians, instead of being basical- irression. and to the riou.se oi thing, freedom of press, thought, ly, and underneath all local and Jacob their sins. Wherefore have or assembly. We have rarely racial differences, humans.

In-! we fastcd, say they, and thou seest stopped to consider that there is deed, the greatest danger wherefore have we afflicted mm very unit: mriw; i iroilimK niaimniii is jc-nuit nun we have learned to place uw i faith in institutions nstead of i e.ljre nonnni, in nu- imy kind of freedom which is not lree-dom for something. We want to be free. What for? New Year Greetings from MILWAUKEE'S OWN STATION affiliated with the American Ilrondcnsting Co. Abstracts of Title Milwaukee County Title Insurance State-Wide placing it in man. Men will not i fast ye find your own be saved bv new techniques, but and exact all your labors.

Behold, bv a new faith, a new vision of ye fast for strife and contention. THIS IS THE crucial question which must be answered by our the universe and of man, a new and to smite with tne nst oi whk- Kscrow Service of relationship- between fitness: ye tasl not mis tiny generation and answered in clar- sense man and man. so basic and so to make your voice to he neara on y. d.ii that nothiim can shake it. high.

Is such the last that i nav IIII lUII'Ua t'AUCUCIIvti, vi the torturous experiences r. HivtinniiwhoH fmm nlnr.ts I elinsen The day for a man to onlmf.le v. hoir afflict his soul? Is it to bow TITLE im II All A IV TY C031PAXY global war, and we have succeeded in ensuring those conditions that are essential for the preserv- destiny is largely governed by down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Wilt thou call this a fust. They" a're expelled and an acceptable day to the Lord? OF WISCONSIN criil Wo hnvp innpni 31 it hi ture and must shift for themselves. I Is not this the fast that I nayt tne ator is this which gives grandeur to! chosen: to loose the bonds of wiek- in.ri th i freedom What human life, but it is also this to undo the bands of th.

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It is easier to themselves, but means for the re- yield to passions than to control alization of an end, which never- them. It is easier to wrangle and theless they create themselves dispute with other nations than when they work hand in hand to agree and co-operate. In this within the only frame of refer- age of destiny, and during this ence which contains them all: Zeman Cherutenu the season of Whether a job lo be printed requires Letterpress Photo-Engravings or Lithographic Offset printing KRUS has the craftsmen and dual facilities to serve YOU. Edwards Motor Company Speedy Service for All Makes of Cars and Trucks at 2 Convenient Locations 240 N. MILWAUKEE STREET DALY 0461 hnmmitv ireeaom, ll is wen iu humanity.

the courage manifested by Moses, I chief figure in the drama of Is-; THE NOBLEST and most sig- raej.s redemption, who not only nificant freedom is the freedom nuried the first challenge against to be human, the opportunity to tne oppression and tyranny of I express that which reflects our Forest Home and Lincoln Mitchell 7970 3601 W. Wisconsin Ave. WEst 7600 Si merest Passover Felicitations to All! ONE CALL Electrical Service ONE RESPONSIBILITY Sales Repairs Wiring Mitchell 5680 Milwaukee Welded Products Co. Fuel Oil Tanks Storage Tanks Steel Fabrication Weldments own true sen, mat wnicn uuuin us as persons. And it is a very rare freedom.

It is still denied to millions today, who are compelled to agree to what others want them i to do or believe. It is denied to rich, as well as to millions of poor and economically dependent men. It is denied to anyone who must from the outset conform to special standards which overshadow, i i twist, or corrupt his essential humanity. It is denied to anyone who as he grows through child-, 1 hood is made to believe in the inherent sinfulness of "human na-, ture." Freedom to be human can exist only where every man can have faith in man. It can only: mean anything to those who accept as the foundation of their individual differences and cultural I distinctions "man's common hu- Happy Passoverl John Hanser Soap Co.

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