Yeshiva University - Masmid Yearbook (New York, NY)

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Mr. Daniel Block A man ' s courage is tested in many, ways: on the battlefield, in the stone wastes of the desert, in the loneliness of a man ' s soul. It took a fierce courage to battle the hungry sands of the Negev, and this menorah, erected with hasty pride, proclaims in silence a people ' s spirit.

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This is the tenth year of the lion, the final year in the decade of thunder and promise. The first childhood of Israel is over, an era has ended. It is with mixed feelings that we view this new, unaccustomed maturity. Childhood is a won- derfully gay but equally dangerous period and a prayer should surely be offered in thanks now that Israel has emerged from it so magnificently triumphant. It would be an impertinence to assume that we could capture or report in any real way what has been happening in Israel in the pages of this book. It is only as a gesture of appreciation and pride that we, the students of Yeshiva, choose this anniversary as the, theme of our book: apprecia- tion and pride and the light touch of destiny on our shoulder. For Israel is the future, of our people, of our religion, of all that we believe in, and hope for.

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Ow.[ liCrW XmJL citLL lA djl j laJjL There is also a different order of courage, the kind that leads men to devote the promise of their lives to their fellow men. This is the teacher ' s courage, this is his battle and his triumph. This year, six en who possessed tnis order of courage have died. They were all men who v burned with hard brilliance, great scientists, scholars, financiers, and they gave of their brilliance with a lavish hand to the students of Yeshiva University. They have gone too soon; they had so much more to give, and we, we still lack so much. Yet, in a sense, these men have not truly left us. During their lives they granted us so much of their knowledge and wisdom, so much of their very being, that we possess them, irretrievably, within ourselves. We would be poor indeed could we not offer these men who have served us with such valor and love some monument. But it must not be of marble or brass, objects finished and dead. Rather, we the students must serve as their monument, for it is in us that these men shall live on. We must tend the seeds planted within us to insure an eternal re-birth in the face of death and a new flowering after the cruel winter.