RABBI MILTON STEINBERG, Park Avenue Synagogue, 50 East Eighty-seventh street: “In all ages and in all times, regardless as to the degree of freedom allowed the individual, one slavery has persisted–the slavery of fashion, bondage to the great majority. This enslavement of the individual reveals itself in trivial matters such as clothes and leisure time amusements. But it is particularly dangerous when it is found in the realm of ideas and ideals. For it is only the ‘unique’, the ‘unusual’, which make progress possible.
“If Passover has any message at all to the human individual, it calls upon him to free himself from the slavery of fashion, to be free in his thinking and in his actions.”
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