The Sentinel, v.063 no. 11, 1926

              THE SENTINEL
A Young Folks' Page, Conducted by Judith Ish-Kishor.
(Copyright, 1926, by Judith Ish-Kishor)
BLOW THE TRUMPET!
Blow the trupmet!
Oh Israel hear!
The great day comes! 'Tis near,
'tis near!
Return, all strayed sheep, to the
fold!
Come back to the grand, sweet
faith of old!
Blow the trumpet!
O son of man,
Turn back thine eyes to the past
and scan
The deeds of thy hand, the thoughts
of thy brain-
Is there aught thou woulds't undo
again?
Blow the trumpet!
'Tis not too late !
God is Love; His mercy's great!
Forgive thy foe; cast far from thee
Hate, mistrust, hypocricy!
Blow the trumpet!
What doth God ask
Of sons of men? A simple task-
To love justice, right, and sweet
charity,
And walk God's pathway humbly.
Blow the Trumpet!
O Israel, hear!
The great day comes!
'Tis near, 'tis near!
Return, all strayed sheep to the
fold!
Come back to the grand, sweet
faith of old!
-By H. J. S.
A GOOD PROVERB FOR THE NEW
YEAR
"The way of a fool is straight in
his own eyes;
But he that is wise, hearkeneth
unto counsel."
That means, in our words, "A fool
thinks that there is no other way of
doing things except his way; but the
person who is wiser, listens to the ad-vice.
of others, even though he may
not take it." Rosh Hashonah is'
the time when you look into your
ways, and see if you .couldn't, maybe,
do better.
IN THE BEGINNING OF THINGS
A New Year Legend from the Talmud
Hashonahi eebratedfor two das
bysJews all over theo world, even i
Pssover, Shabuoth, Sucoth, have
two days in all other lands. Buxt for
the New Year, there must be two
whole days of rest and meditation
and prayer.
Another thing. Have you noticed,
that Rosh Hashonah, of ,all the year's
holidays, is the only one that takes
place at the beginning of the month,
when nights are dark and moonless?
These questions are answered by a
story.
In the beginning, there was God.
And God created his angels. "Mes-sengers,"
they are called in Hebrew-to
carry out His will. Then He began
the creation of the heaven and earth.
"The universe was without form and
void, (empty) and darkness moved
upon. the face of the deep. . . . And
God said 'Let there be light.' And
there was light. And God saw the
light that it was good."
But Satan-the Adversary, "the
Hindrance" (as Rabbis call him) did
not like the light. He had never
thought of such a thing as light, and
he didn't see why it should be, for he
didn't like new ideas. Besides, this
uncomfortable brightness would in-terfere
with the lazy lifeless way in
which he liked to do his little bits
of mischief and obstruction. So he
blinked and spread his bat-wings over
his eyes, when the light came, puff
after puff, from all sides at once.
But he soon took comfort in the fact
that the light was uncertain. It came
and went, sometimes it flashed, some-times
for long periods. And between
the bursts of brightness, Satan had,
the chance to refresh himself with the
thick, foggy, black or the cloudy gray.
that came in between. Meanwhile,
God made the heavens; and he sep-arated
the sea from the dry land, and
planted the earth with fruit and grass
and flowers.
Suddenly, Satan gave a jump. A
great, dazzling, flaming light burst
out in one part of the heaven, and
brightened the whole sky to a lovely
light blue. One could see, then, that
the earth was green-bowered with
trees and washed by cool waters.
Satan, fuming with impatience, wait-ed
for this light to die away. But it
didn't go. It seemed to move round
the heavens, so that every spot in turn
was visited by its splendor.
"This is too much!" cried Satan,
and irritated out of his usual slow-ness,
he folded his wings above his
eyes, and soared up towards the sun.
God was prepared for his coming.
He sent the angel Uriel-whose name
means "God is my Light,"-to meet
Satan and to answer his complaints. Uriel was waiting by the rosy and
purple clouds that made a pathway
to the sun.
"Greeting to you, servant of God!"
Satan snarled, "What does your Mas-ter
mean by setting up such a nuis-ance
in the center of the universe?
What will happen to me, if this light
continues? I can only work in dark-ness
or at least in a decent dimness.
And what will the whole creation do
without me ?-for I am the critic, and
the accuser. It is my part to watch
for mistakes !"
"Indeed," said Uriel, radiantly
calm. "It is for that purpose that
God created you. But fear nothing.
You shall have space and time in
which to work. "Watch, now, what
happens!" And they both came near-er
the clouds and saw the colorful
beauty of the first sunset.
"Not bad. Not bad," said Satan,
grudgingly, and the angel continued:
"Now comes the darkness of night,
with the smaller light of the moon
and the stars. And for a few nights
of the month, even the moon will be
dark. -That will be your best time.
You are not shut out for long, how-ever,
for even in the daytime, there
will always be shadows."
With this answer, Satan was forced
to be content. He dropped back to
his favorite hiding places. And he
muddled around as best he could, un-til
one day, another alarming rumor
reached him. He flew off again to the
gates of the sun. And again, Uriel
was waiting for him.
"How does it please you, bright
angel, to think that your Master is
planning to create a being out of
clay, and to give it a mind? -a share
of your intelligence ?-and a soul,
too !"
"All that God does is right in my
eyes." said Uriel.
"But this new doll of the Al-mighty's-
this creature Man, what
will it do with the gift of reason?
What will it use its mind and soul
for? With its body made of clay, it
will be full of weakness and of
stumbling. How will you like to see
the soul degraded in such a mean
dwelling?"
"The soul of Man will make
glorious his clay body. And to nour-ish
man's soul, God will give him the
divine Law. When he fails to carry
out the Law, it shall be your task to
bring the matter before God."
"In that case, I shall have enough
RIDDLE BOX
Eleanor Luria's acrostic has found favor in the eyes of the veteran guessers so
far. I think it was quite an easy puzzle. What worried you about it, girls and boys?
Here's how it worked itself out.
1. The name the angel gave Jacob..........I srael
2. The city where Lot dwelt..............Sodom
3. The wife of Jacob ........................... achel
4. The father of the Hebrews.................. Abraham
5. The guardian of a prophet..... .... i li (who brought up Samuel)
6. A sister of Rachel...................L eah.
Was the fifth one too hard? The ones who guessed th epuzzle were: Mildred Bur-stein,
243 E. Broadway; Bessie Love, 9 W. 114th St.; and Florence Schreiber, 139 Mon-roe
St., New York City; Abraham D. Aizeman, 5811 14th Ave.; Sol Moskowitz, 1787
Berger St., Brooklyn, N. Y.; Theodore Engelman, 306 Ophelia St., Pittsburgh; Walter
Hadel, 1018 Braddock Ave., Braddock, Pa.; Eugene Segal, 608 Aldine Ave.; Sylvia
Kaplan, Hotel Southmore, 67th St.; and Ester Abelsky 412 Pryor St., S. W., Atlanta,
Georgia.
Now start the New Year right and try to guess this one.
Rosh Ha-Shonah is the beginning of the year. So this Rosh Ha-Shonah puzzle
will be a puzzle of beginnings. This way:
Take the beginning of the land that the Israelites lived in, in Egypt, the
Beginning of the country where the Israelites made bricks as slaves, the
Beginning of the kings who destroyed the First Temple, the
Beginning of the first woman in the world, the
Beginning of the creature that brought trouble into Eden, the
Beginning of the first patriarch's first son, the
Beginning of the first of the Prophets.
Take all these beginnings and put them in a row. Then you will have The BEGIN-NING
OF THE BIBLE. Do you get me?
trumpet."
"That's better. Why didn't you tell
me in the first place, that it's a trum-pet?"
"Because-because it isn't a trum-pet!"
work to do?" Satan grinned and took
himself off.
For some time he kept himself
fairly busy, always looking forward to
the time when the sins of the new
creature would pile up so high, that
a neat case could be made up to pre-sent
before the Eternal, for Man's
utter destruction. Satan did what he
could with Adam and Eve. He nearly
succeeded at the time of the flood,
and he again made a great effort at
the building of the Tower of Babel.
But he did not lose his patience until
he found out God's plan of letting
man repent and atone for his sins.
Then, beating his wings in a rage, went he to complain to the Lord. Uriel
met him.
"Of what use are all my efforts to
point out man's sins, if God merely
forgives him?" Satan cried. "No sin
is too great for God's mercy, if the
creature honestly repents!"
"One day, the first day of each
year, you shall have to gather all the
sins of man together. And those men
and women that do not repent of their
sins a short time afterwards, shall be
punished, on your accusation. And
at the close of this Day of Judgment,
to make your task easier, there is no
moon, for the nights at the month's
beginning are dark." Again Satan
was obliged to be content. And this
is what happened.
Of all the people of the earth, Israel accepted the privilege of ex-amining
his deeds and his heart on
the first day of the year, and of re-penting
so that when Satan brought
his accusations on Yom Kippur, God
might be able to pardon those who
had atoned for their sins. The ram's
horn was sounded on the New Year's
day, Satan gathered up his notes on
the sins and weaknesses of each con-gregation,
the moonless night came
down, and the Accuser flew away,
thinking that his job was finished.
And then began a second day of
prayer and thought, quietly, without
the blasts of the ram's horn-so
Satan's account of wrong-doing is
never complete, God mercifully over-looks
half the failings of Israel, and
the people have one more day in which to repent before the final judg- ment on Yom Kippur.
HOW TO EXPLAIN?
e( A s oht nt urt, and
"What is a 'Shofar' " asked the
IrShofar?" the accused answered.
"A shofar is a-a-a Shofar."
"Yes, but what is it?"
"What is it? Your Honor, it's what
I said. A Shofar is a-a-a Shofar."
"Unless you want me to commit
you for contempt of Court," said the
Judge, "you will have to explain what
you mean by a 'Shofar.' "
"A Shofar-your honor, how can I
explain? A Shofar is a-a- kind of
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