While individual Jews may have added greatly to the secular achievements of our modern civilization in mechanical, scientific, artistic and intellectual fields, yet the great fact is that Israel as a people has produced no great distinctive system of art or science. Its collective contribution to the treasury of human life and happiness is in the moral and spiritual realms, If ever that contribution were needed, it is today; in this age of crass materialism; in a world torn by doubts and violences, hatreds and suspicions, where the earth trembles with the tread of armies, where nations are opposed to nations, where the voice of good-will and amity, of justice and righteousness is lost in the furtive whisperings of diplomatic dissimulations and dishonesties.
lí is an hour when men's hearts should be withdrawn from the materialistic and mechanical outlook upon life to the inner sanctities, the spiritual intangibles that alone lend dignity ahd power to human existence. And we, of the House of Israel, should more than, others seek to do this, We shall not fear to be known as seekers of God, we shall not be afraid to be different. We shall not be timid or embarrassed in the observances of our customs or Holy Hi Days that express high spiritual ideals
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