Full Friday evening Sabbath service with sermon by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn:” The Age of Heart Attacks,” December 30, 1955. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.

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Title:
Full Friday evening Sabbath service with sermon by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn:” The Age of Heart Attacks,” December 30, 1955. Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.
Description:
Full Friday evening Sabbath service at Temple Israel with sermon by Rabbi Gittelsohn, “The Age of Heart Attacks.” Rabbi Gittelsohn borrows a word from William James, “Zerrissenheit (torn to pieces),” to describe the current age of stressful and health-threatening activities. He attributes this to a loss of our intimate connection with nature and the ability to be alone with ourselves, as well as the intense preoccupation with acquisition of material possessions. His “non-medical” prescription for prevention of heart attacks includes reestablishing communion with nature, learning to accept and appreciate the benefits of solitude, pausing to consider what we want from and consider vital to our lives, and spending our allotted time wisely. He reminds the audience that regular attendance at religious services affords an ideal opportunity to be alone with ourselves and these questions in the midst of community, while a formal retreat also helps reconnect with nature. Choral Music by Temple Israel Choir, Herbert Fromm, conductor.
Speaker:
Gittelsohn, Roland Bertram, 1910-1995
Musical director:
Fromm, Herbert
Composer:
Fromm, Herbert
Creator:
Congregation Adath Israel (Boston, Mass.)
Date:
December 30, 1955
Format:
Audio recordings (nonmusical)
Location:
Temple Israel of Boston
Wyner Archives
Collection (local):
Past Voices, Audio Recordings, 1934-1979
Subjects:
Reform Judaism--United States
Jewish sermons--United States
Synagogue music--Sabbath services--United States
Myocardial infarction--Prevention
Stress management
Extent:
1/4" audio tape (1 hour, 24 min., 54 sec.)
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Language:
English
Hebrew
Preferred Citation:
Full Friday evening Sabbath service with sermon by Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn:” The Age of Heart Attacks,” December 30, 1955. Audiovisual Collection, Wyner Archives of Temple Israel of Boston.
Notes (funding):
This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Notes (historical):
Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn (1910-1995), social justice activist, Zionist, and writer, was Senior Rabbi of Temple Israel from 1953-1977 and Rabbi Emeritus thereafter. He served as founding rabbi of Central Synagogue in Rockville Center, NY from 1936-1953. During WWII, he became the first Jewish Marine Corps chaplain, and, in 1945, he delivered a moving, oft-quoted eulogy on brotherhood at Iwo Jima. After his retirement he was a co-founder of ARZA (the Association of Reform Zionists).
Herbert Fromm (1905-1995), Temple Israel’s organist and Music Director (1941-1973), was a German-born conductor and composer forced to leave Germany in 1937. A prolific composer of religious music, much of which became part of the standard synagogue repertoire, and secular works, he also published many articles and essays and several books.
Identifier:
TI-AV-90037.001