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Courage Is Calling, a Stoic book on the value, importance, and nature of courage, also applies to the issue of Jewish ethics and the existential threats to our survival. (Photo: chapters.indiogo.ca)
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And there it was – in the middle of the 2021 Stoic book, Courage is Calling by Ryan Holiday.
There were the words that I had heard so often – words repeated by Jews in their prayers, but generally ignored by them. Perek 1 Mishnah 14 of Pirkei Avoth in the Talmud says “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
I have taken a class on the historic period when these words were said and the reasons for Hillel saying them. I have also led a class of ten people on where these words could apply in the day-to-day life of my fellow synagogue members.
Members of the class brought up situations where they could have spoken out or acted differently, but failed to do so. We then discussed what other class members would or had done in similar situations and how successful their behavior had been. Needless to say they were interesting classes where we all learned about ourselves and were more prepared for challenging situations.
As far as I know the excellent questions posed by Hillel are given serious thought by only a few Jews and mostly in terms of ordinary actions among friends, in peaceful Canada.
But here, in a Stoic book on the value, importance, and nature of courage, I was startled to find my Judaism facing me in a different context and supporting another 2000 year old philosophy.
Here it was talking about quitting a well-paying secure job on a moral issue, or taking up a life of service like Florence Nightingale, or going into a battle to the death, like Leonidas, the leader of the Stoics, at the battle of Thermopylae – a battle to the death in order to save their city, Sparta, and the Greek civilization.
It discussed Hillel’s phrase in terms of duty to your state as a soldier, as a husband and father, and as a man responsible for his fellow men, for his friends, and for his family – all in the context of life and death situations and choices.
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Why then does this reference to Pirke Avoth surprise me and urge me to write?
There is no reason for Canadian and American Jews to remain silent. It is time we became courageous and spoke out directly against those who lie and criticize Israel and the Jewish Diaspora.
Jonathan Usher was born in Montreal. He graduated from Queen’s Law School in 1963 and moved to Toronto where he has lived since. In the past 20 years of retirement he has become a very prolific and published letter-to-the-editor writer and conservative, social iconoclast.
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