The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-30

ltibb HIS Hb uOiANhSA th Shs sssFP't -the Day of Atonement with the singing of the traditional kol Nidre by Mir Burwell, Temple soloist with Miss Mccormick at the organ.
 The sermon was delivered by Rabbi Aaron Fl. Lefkowitz. He said:
 If the atmosphere of the uni verse Is permoated with mystery, If mans life is an endless chain of unhappy incidents, If, in the words of Disraeli Youth Is blunder, manhood a struggle. and old age, 0 regret'--why was he put on this earth? The Hebrew sages Of old debated the question whether or no 1t would have been better If man were not created" The conclusion was 1t would have been much bet ter had man not been created be- cause too many riddles perplex there Is nothing better for him to do but to make the best of it.
 This discussion Is based on a verse of Ecclesiastes, You are born not of your own will; you die, not of your own will'-while we live, lot us therefore 50 live in a spirit of Faith as to make lire worth living Faith helps to The scientist makes discoveries by putting whole.hearted faith in his ideas. This Faith transforms hls belief into a reality.
 Why believe? Because to believe Is to give you strength and faith for the trials and vicissitudes of life; to disbelieve Is to be pessimis- tic Goethe spent all his life trying to unravel the mystery of Gods essence. In his letters at the end of his days he admits what Il fool he was, for he never had q happy day in his life.
 Faith is that power within you which makes you master or the worlds forces. though yonr physi- cal strength is as smoke before their might "A rush plant cannot shoot up without mire, nor can a reed grass grow without wa ter" speaks our philosopher in Job, SO man cannot 1.-Two without faith in God and faith in himself as possessing the potentialities to understand this universe It Is our duty to believe if we value this world. if wo desire a moral or der in this universe, if we seek the dawn after tho darkness.
 Services were held this morning at 10 q. m. when Rabbi Lefkowit2 spoke on tho theme "Israeps Sur vlVar'
 Special services for children of the religious school took place at 1 P. m. Rabbi Lefkowitz deliv- cred special sermon for the chil. drcn entitled, "rhe still Small Voico'.
 Memorial services were held at the temple this afternoon at 5 D. m. Rabbi Lefkowitz preached on "The Adventurous Cyclo'.
 Rabbi Lofkowltz took for his sub ject "Is/ ,l's Surviyal". He spoke in part us 'ollows:
 "One may question Israol's sur Il vival In view of the present ten. dency for youth to be indifferent to religion because of an overabund- ance of naturalization in our mod. orn civilization, but the survival oi the Jew Is assured If every Jew will have an understanding of Jew ish culture.
 'The mark of the Jewish genius, the stamp of the Jewish person. ality. the factor that has made for n distinct Jewish individuality has been his cultural background the rabbi said,
 "The culture of a people deter mines its place among the nations A highly developed culture always assimilates q lowly culture. It IS sociological law that for a con- oueror to be successful, his people must be higher in culture than the conquered, that he may impose upon them his culture and there- by assimilate them.
 Tn the sixth century. the Visi' gothic Arians, a tribe of barbarians' invaded the western Roman em- pire, conquered the Catholic rulers and took the reins of government into their own hands; but the Visi- goths were mere savages with nc culture. Their language was vul- gar Latin. How could they assim' ilate them into their culture if they had no culture to impose upon them? As result, they humbly submitted to the learned Catholic I clergymen for education. And Q remarkable thing occurred, most noteworthy in history. These bar barians, superior in physical might were far inferior in cultural power In 5s9. the king of the Visigoths became converted to Catholicism , and with him. his whole kingdom
 Let us now look into the his tory of the Jews. What has beer their lot? Driven about from ont land to another. subjected to man. masters, yet they ever maintained their status because of their mark ed cultural power which coult never be overcome by any othe nation. In Spain. while the Jew were undergoing the terrible in quisitions, some of the maste minds among them rose to higl office in the government. as tn rulers recognized them as states men. physicians of note. philoso , phers and economists. No wondc ehar fhnt n Jaw hacuma tn