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    HAIM NAHMAN BIALIK | “REVEALMENT | AND | CONCEALMENT. HIVE ESSAYS Aferwond by Zali Gurevich Sour le eee now for the did or fourth tm, once agin returning lnd. And here we ate destin’ to fashion » cure sesenaldyrenter and her than any we hse heretotore ceted or absorbed, And who now! otha afer hundreds of years we wl be emboldened to make snother exodih which will lead to the _peaing of nt spit owe the word and amas striving towed ley HALACHAH AND AGGADAH Hawacoe WEARS A ROW, Aga a ile, The pedi severe, unbendingéall justice he ther decummodnting. lenient, plale-all mes. The one ‘comands nd ows no hala house het yet ye an her ny, The other vic, adele cunt ‘of human nitions she admits something betwee yes and nay. The une concemed th he hell wth the bay with action dhe other with the hel wh the sou, with intentions. On one ether peti sheet, duty, subjetion; on the other perpetual ‘ehmeation tery, volon, Turn fom the phere oF Mew tha of lente, nd dete are Free poins of contrast. On the one sie the dryness of pone, 2 formal and ews, and monochrome dicen: reson i onerein. On the other side the sp of ost, se fal fife and varie diction al aloe with clr emotion csorreign, To these anheses beween Halse and Aish fone might ad endlely and in all of them ther sald be same acini of truth, Bur must ae conclude-at many think-thie Halaah and Aagedah are sxoireconelble opposites! ‘Those who «conclade are confxingascident and ‘oem wit sbwtance 48 who should decae te ee and the water in a er to bet ifn Kinds of rates Holacha and Aansh are wo things which age reall testo sides of inl shield, The elation ferween ther tke thar of speech to thought and emai, oF of ston ad sesble form fo speach Halacha the -ysalition theultimate aa ineitsle quintessence of AggadatsAmadah ic the content of Halk, Asgulhi the plaintive voice ofthe hears yearning 1 wings say to ts haven Hala te the resungplace, where for a moment the pearing i ssid an stile Aes dream eck ts lilt in Interpretation ax wil aton, ae haut i speech. 9 howe in eit Agidah in Halacah. Bor inthe heart ofthe rather is iden hese for hich 1 mew Mower sill row. The Ralckok which sublimated ito syial-and mich halo thee swe shall fnd-tecomes the mother of agp, tshich maybe lke io unlike. Tsing ad ely Alasah ican auadah eat has beer te wll be And the reverse ste an. The naa ome in thet Inning anther end. Nay, what ae all the oe handed nd hie rirwct except the quntesenes, puniod agin and asin of mth, of legend, of hoary isto om, experience, fom oral tation and fm natural Feling-which remaned as ewere sependad in mila for thousands of years (a thousand peeratons,o two thousand petiade of hace, acconling 9 tran, ut he soe ame for thers to be gen Bay the shape of Uswe engrived in stone and witen om parchment? The law of ssrfices, uf tl Uunclenaines an clelines and erin fod, has ies ongin in the priestly aythy the prescribed anniversaries are bound up with tories of he natn Ison the ethical lus at ood inthe naron'ssense ofjutice ad mer of hich the chosen few wee the mouthpieces. But even when they were writen down Whey were nor pettified because scully the oral tradition and natu feeling never cetsed 0 finction foean instant and thee crrets of fh aiceaslest played “upon the written word, quickening ‘exganding or contacting i sometises even annie ie fora short ime o forall time, In raporse to new reads oF evento new opinions and Belief. Not oly might Ezekiel abrogate what Moses had wrigen;-a mere “Daniel the Tar” did poe scuple to ride Fal tt ‘inst an imporeant negtve recep ofthe Torah and to hope that would be arose sone ue dae! "ne bs nn ee in rc fu ew, heroes Ea gn Lesa Iie ta Rate Pak othe vers Soret ae fod! a he oppentne Ea, 1) te ‘Th th Ta ened he ig ee ben Sele nn, And tebe eae of ta a ee gente prt pe, IE Rew Tie fennel gc ewnietieoe ina‘ on feats het psc "tes font on the ee stad Sic SHS ee ory he poeta he Ta hae aan ke ke Re ike the anaes al of gold which Zachara am Un Bi ‘The process of sluson and condensation which Flach nd. Agadak undergo ate cea visible, special times fsevltion an he making of new laws they ae pin seam all, Ao alc, shred, ree nt the cri of the Bear and ie transmuted neo an agah-tke ito unlhenand the staatoh in cam afer being purified. mers thence into the mols of thought and aston, and ten ann condenses int Hale, bat in an imprened chal ew form, Thus Hlakak iso Fes than Apu, 2 csentive proces. eis the supreme frm of art-the at ‘flfeand oftving. Is media ithe living may ith sllhisimpues is instrurses econ ind, soci and national i pct» continuous din ‘of godly ie and action the eaing of pero the otales and the sare ha bese inl and community, a semlyexitence fr nan mn earthy stvloed made of le. The creations of Halacah ae ros like those of the other arts, psc building, ong, poem concerto snd individ in materi, time ant plac; they grow litle by hl, ec hy pec, out of all se stream fan ead eeenenenniemntennmeen eee satin: il he end the fragments add up wa singe tec, and produce singe form, whesher complete of incomplete. Halchah the materar tha bas shapes and rained 2 whole nation, aa every ne tha i as tgaven on the nation's sol, he i cae of fn, hi ‘ee inspired ad guided hy 3 supreme widom which sees the end in the Bennie. Dp by da, hr by hous, inure by minute i tent om He ak of cresting one fre and one form onthe mu ene (oF Go’ centre, the image of Godin man Cologne Cathedral Milan Cathal, Notre Dame de Patisthose have een made the thing of bem tha they ae by the efforts of supreme ats thr Fhundeeds of yeas. Each ofthese ast in hs day ave his life and the bes of is gn to a task wich for im alone was holy and doubles i wat only becatse allot them subordinated themselves single central ‘le of supreme sigalcance for ther, dat hee sacred task was so succesfully complished. The sen of boll » house fr thee God hevered Pefore al of them like «vise dhing-as the Tabemacte was ba recording the wsion which hou wast hown-and seme them inspiration: and chat idea ¢ was which uid ee ule and the ane, the syle nd the eave Jn their Bands, and tll them where to put each ne an ech mack each Beam and each Unc, unt at le after centuries of work done by men who. were separated in space and in tine, the whole Became one mighty, noble edie. The fs hive thie own superb creatine sscred and subline day, "fhe Queen Sabbath” In the popular imagination the Sabbath is peronified,gven bolilyshope, and endowed with wondrous and Aeing beauty. God brought the Sahat into His sword when the catin sih complete 30 thatthe tichly decorated bea eno shuld noe lack bide She was the most peeios his teacures, and he found no mate Be fr her exept fae Another Popular asada pictures hes ike a prince, “Hke 2 bride srayed amon ber companions” in the Garden of Een, hidden in the inner of seven chambers, tnd attended by her abe handmaiens he si dase of ereation, Whe she ees cy al rinses orn othe gate and welcome her with the ereting: “Come, : © Fide come, © Brie, Queen Sith’, and the rows pout to welcome her before she reaches the cy. ‘Once upona time she apeared in dream to Ibn Een, alls and yrieftricken, and pve him a ert st her spouse, the celebrated “Leer on the Sabbath” Ever Jewish poet, from feuds Halen Heine, has Iymned her in sone. Ise not pec of Aan fom fiso is? And isthe not soiree of ite and hones "tw 4 whe nation, and fountain of inpeation ts singers and poets) Yee who shall presume wo decide ‘whether Hach or Anda gave he Being and mie her what she There ate ome unr an facto love pages a Tsetse Sha ane one hurd nd fren Brin, ad in Both ther ene no Aga, for the most par they consie of disussone and Adecsons on the mininise ofthe thirynine kinds of work and their eanches, nd on the limis within ich irs permisihlero cary on the Sakbth. What thesSbnth candle aero be made of what beast may be loaded! with; how the limite may be joitly fxed-such are the guemtions disused, What earnest of dhe es! Wha waste of gone wits on ety fling point! Bue when Lunn oe those pags tnd ee she various groups of Taman and Amann ‘hel wok, Tsay to me hat these whom Ieee i ‘very uth atte of en he thes of eration. Sach righty spleiual work as this antlike an gamle at ‘once, wotk performed for it own sake and out of Found lowe and faith, could not be done without inspiration. Every one ofthe men did his own part, ofthe ask according this on ent ad inclination, an all of ther were bowed hefote an overanerng hither wil. One lfy Hes, one seme ig of the Sabah hovered before these seater men lke ‘sblehin.and espe gathered them here fom out ofall the generations, and made them corer ints fashioning and periecong. Every question, erery challengs,esery limitation and definition but a new piece added tthe moss; another ito the pater, vrhich had to be prin ene without the whole ‘oul pat have Been wha emus, And thers of all his resome work of Haack ia day which i whey Aaah This but one eample our of many. Take the § Day of Atonement. ake the Passover, ake the rst of the Festivals The secret of the sory tha sin sem 'nd in het ly meaning beyond duke, The ae all Fenunfl creation, full of living and Megring ‘prt of noble an ennobling significance, altho they ar all creature of sem, inexorable Halechoh ringed ound with «Fence of ceremnnil sbserance, Ar the very ime when the aise of ther nts were ‘tng in their studios nd working outwith sued sie fsting, che dimensions and proportions of works of marble ro dekh menssenses, Jewish schelae wee siting in their houses of sy anal working tn holy ardor and ums purty of hear the spit Aimensions and proportions of deeds of chin, to bring. delight an eterment to. man himal"to punfy Go's creatures” a they aid To not decide whose work ket bue [eink that both are works of eater frms me material en sed om he pote othe actual by the creative spit wm In oth the sense of Beauy his spe for is highet anifesaton, and beth have nes of inspation tnd Fave erace. They difer ony in their mater sd thei means sea one bn of the eecognind sifers from encther-psinsing. fom mie, for xe ‘Tre thet ie alo foment diference The ‘ondinary work ofan, appealing tthe india, ad being (as T have sid) iid and indvidaliza in materi space dime, can Be taken ina 2 sane Immedintely and at close quarters. Not othe eeatons ‘of Halaioh. Tht appeal ime at he group ell ss a the individual and thei component pars are sctered, in respec of material space and time, oer vide aren; and consequently thi view of the whee shih ress fom the combination of al hel pares fannot he obtained exept afer mich sri and from ahish sine. If lage iy were alt according to the grande plan of an architet of genio, we should noc he abet se the plan 48a whole, nor spam the complete beauty of design xcept ina may trom a high vantage cetiny not rom 9 walk ‘heoogh it tees, fer there che dea would ba out som ofthe whole. “The wood cannot te seen fo the see," lan ol and wise sayne. Bot doe this deat fom the bear and perfection of the plan? To whoever wished to enjoy tht we shoul say: clin the Nometheles,& sometimes happens that even singe Metal of Haack fasbes ou on a whe wold of ‘Aga whic les hide within i For intanee, in thor same Tractate Shabbat si in the Tosa thereon, this alacha esenibed Ay ofthe ely wings may be saved fom fre (on the Sabbath). This apis to translation in Aramaic or in any other langunge-Copuie, Mai, Elamic, Gree but Rabbi Jose sae that raalatons may nut be Here, fyou wil pty hla dt depute sour nehing. Bue who can flr recognise a once ‘har in this tl and uninerstng hlahah we ae ftven, with exeme condreness, and yet wih sll pole fullest, a complete picture ofthe historia and psychologeal ateaude of diferent schools of thooght t0 199 of the most imporiant national posessions-the ational language and Mercure! Who ‘an fal to see in this Mihnaic discussion that angunge sg” which fas gone om in Jewish le fe il "Despise aot ihe Aramaic paid oe *Let not @ man pray for what he wants in Aramaic, which the ininisering anaes know not “When the Holy One Blessed be He, came to give the Torah to Ish He spake with them inthe language which dey knew ad tndersood-Exypin” "Thus shale thou sty. othe children of leae-tha in the lingua In which 1 (God) speak, in he holy language’ “When the Hely One, bles ona to sae He reveled Himself notin one linge, Bu cn, Arab, Aral; "The day on te He, revealed Himself ro ge she which the Torah war transaed Inno Greek was as diets for lal as that on which the golden calf is, and in the Land three days of dikes; "When the Prophess wete rrinlated by Jonathan hen Use into Ara, the Land of bil was moved four hundred leagues and