The Denver Jewish news., 1923-03-21

that he has withStObd, WHO arises OUT
of his ruins with new yigOr. with new
energy and becomes u fierce and dread
full Cain mark to his prosecutors
oppressors and tormentors. What is a
Jew who being so eager for money has
nevertheless. not allowed himself to he
led astray by all the earthly possessions
which his oppressors and prosecutors
constantly offered him in order that
he cliangc his faith and forsake his
own Jewish religion?
The Jew is that sacred being who
everlasting fire, and has Illuminated
with it the entire world. The Jew is
he who carries around everywhere the
divine idea ard makes it the possession
of the whole world. The Jew has
been for II long time the sole keeper
and protector of the divine idea. He
is the religious source, spring and
fountain out of which all the rest of
the peoples have drawn their beliefs
and their religions. Had it not been
for the Jew all the other nations would
have remained idol worshippers to this
day. The Jew has been chosen by God
to keep and preserve his law and this
sacred mission the Jew has fulfilled
ii, spite of ahc tortures and Inquest
tions inflicted upon him by the Greek
and Roman Catholic churches.
The Jew is the pioneer of liberty.
Even in those Olden days when the
people were divided into but two dis
so long ago had the law of Moses pro-
hibitcd the practices of keeping II per-
son in slavery and in bondage for more
than six years in succession. After
that time the slave had to be set free
without any money payment to his
master, and in ease the servant rejects
this privilege Moses commands that
his ma aster bore his ear. The Talmud
explains very logically the relation be-
tween the ear and slavery. The ear
that heard Gods word on Mt. Sinai
my servants and has not regarded
these words and has indifrerently re-
jccicd his own liberation his ear cer-
tainly deserves to be bored through
with an awl.'
The Jew is the symbol of absolute
equality The Talmud that y so much
condemned. and of which all those who
do NOT understand it are so much afraid
shows clearly from the holy scripture
in many different ways that no one can
say My father has been grenter than
your father" In another place the Tai
mud remarks that the old testament
does not treat about one people in par
ticular. but about all peoples in gen.
eral About mankind.
The Jew is the pioneer. of sciviliZa-
ton. Already a thousand years before
the birth of Christ when the then
known parts of the world We're yet
wild and ignorant in Palestine it had
already been customary and fully UNI
dcrstood that every one who was cdu-
Gated should teach the uneducatcd and
Ignorance lad been condemned in those
odcn days in the Jewish world more
even than it is to-day in civilized
Europe. Evu,i IN unlawfully born child
Who according f. tlc prcccpts of the
Mosaaic law cam ut he accepted into
the Jewish comniu:,ity even him the
Talmud places higher ihan the High
ing are provided free TO all.
Priest if he is an educated and learned
man and the Priest ignorant and I'M
educated.
Moreover in those wild and barbar-
Gus days when neither the life nor the
death of any one counted for anything
at all Rabbi Akiba, the foremost and
greatest Talmudist did not refrain from
expressing himself openly against cap
ital punishment. Il practice which is
recognized today as highly civilized
way of punishment
The Jews emblem of civil and re-
ligious tolcration: ''Love the strang-
cr and the sojourner.' Moses COM
mands because You have been strang-
crs in the land of Egypt And this
was said in those remote and wild
times when the principal ambition of
the races and nations consisted in
crushing and enslaving anc another. At
first glance Moses words seemed to
sound very strange. The Egyptions who
misuscd the loyalty of the Jews. The
Egyptions who cnslavcd the Jew, and
with whip in hand compelled them to
do the hardest labor. The Egyptions
who ordered that every newborn Jew
ish hoy be drowned in the river. Nile
ca decree which did not exempt Moses