"OUR TEACHER"

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 540, 18 December 1928, Page 1

"OUR TEACHER"

HONOUR FOR REV. A. S. GOLDSTEIN NEARLY 50 YEARS OF SERVICE The title of “Morenu” lias been conferred on the Rev. A. S. Goldste.n, head of the Jewish congregation in Auckland, in recognition of his 5m years’ service in the cause of Judaism. “Morenu” means “Our Teacher.” Tt is a very highly prized honour and is only bestowed on deserving people on very rare occasions. Tho Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, the Rev. Dr. J. H. Hertz, in conferring the honour on Mr. Goldstein, wrote from London: “I leajrn with the deepest gratifio tion that you will soon complete 5u years in your ministry to the Auckland Hebrew congregation. Fifty years—that means a life-time—spent in the service of Israel and humanity, on the part of a man of culture and character, is something that should evoke feelings of respect and gratitude, not only of the members of the Auckland

Hebrew Congregation, but of the whole British Jewry. “Both my colleagues on the Ecclesiastical Court (London Deth Din), and I fully share that respect and gratitude; and with their whole-hearted concurrence I now gladly confer upon you the title ‘Morenu’ in recognition of the life-time you have devoted to the cause of Judaism. You have striven to live ip to the ideal of the Jewish Teacher, ;as described by the prophet of old— The Law of Truth was in his mouth, I and unrighteousness was not found in j bis lips: be walked with Me in peace and übrightness. and did turn away many from iniquity.' -