New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-18
HEBREW CUSTOMS.
The Feast Of Pentec ost- e Conservation Of new
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great ieHsts OF the Jews, Is celeorateo on the otO
day Of the month Swan. commencing at sunset on
the previous day lac ording to our reckoning
Thursday, May l6, 1880 at sunset; by Hebrew
computation, Swan 5, 5,GiO) The first great feast
the Passover-occufs n san Is, March 25l in re-
membrance Of the wonderful delverance OF the
descendants Of Abraham from Egypt; the Ponte
cost comes fifty days aiterward, called also the
Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Harvest, COM
memorating the giving # The Law on Mount Sinai
which occurred fifty days after the passage OF the
Red Sea the last great festival Is the Feast Of
Tabernacles, TisTi -, Sept 81 and commemo-
rates the forty years wandering in the wilderness.
These feass are keptin accordance with the DIVINE
command, "Three tunes thou shalt keep feast
nnto mo in the wear. 1hou shalt keep the feast
OF unleayened bread aud the feast OF harvest. the
frat fruits of thy labors which thou hast sown in
thy field and the feast OF ingahering, which is in
the end Of the year, when tho1 hast gathered in
thy labors out Of the icld"-E5odus xiii l4-l6.
The observance Of the present Feast Of Pente.
cost is signaized in Ills City by the conservation
Of the new Synagogue OF the Congregation Anshi.
Chesed, just erected in Norfolk st. near STAN
ton OF the feast itself We find long account in
the Hebrew Review from which the Jewish paper
of this City (TRe Asmonson) makes the following
abridgment:
aAocordine 30 tradition which in its origin as
cends TO the remote and glorious period when the
Deity was pleased TO reveal himself to his people
on Mount Sinai and which, together with the &C.
count Of the wonderful events which accompanied
that revelation has been transmitted from father to
pon in uninterrupted succession we lind that the
festival of weeks, or Pentecost, was instituted TO
commemorate the most important fact recorded 10
our history; q fact which not only our religious
system but those OF all other nations who confess
the authenticity and Divine origin Of the Mosaic
dispensatioD, are founded This festival ought,
therefore, in reality, 70 rank foremost among the
three great feasts " hich the Deity was pleased TO
institute and command his people to observe. For
unless the events which TINS festive commentaries
had taken place, unless that complete and perfect
system d religious, moral and social Legislation,
which tie Deity vouchsaied ~ reveal to our ances
tors ut Mount Sinai had been made known to and
accepted by them unless they, through that &C.
oeptance, had been constituted q peculiar and
chosen people to the Deity, nation OF priests and
instructors TO the rest OF mankind unless all this
had taken place, revealed religion would have been
deficient Of its strongest proofs, the perfection and
happiness OF the human race would have been de
prived Of its strongest buwark against the inroads
Of infdelity ana vice. ard our nation would not
have held that high office, once conferred on them,
they have never since been deprived OF; namely,
the important office OF being the attestng witnesses
TO the truths Of revelation, aud to the authenticity
Of those glorious, perfect, and immutable laws,
which alone secure true happiness, and uphold the
otherwise frail structure of tne social fabric.
Therefore, were they selected among all the
nations, and told that they were 70 be "a peculiar
people unto the Lord They were TO be witnesses
of His unity. as they bad been OF HIS power, HIS
Justice and His mercy. And, that they might, to
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credited as His witnesses and proper instruments
to work the purpose Tor which they had been Sc
lected, the God Of truth youchsafed TO reveal him
self to them and to manifest his presence on Mount
SINAI. in a manner which, never before OF since,
mortal eye could endure 10 behold.
"And Mount Sinai was altogether on smoke,
because the Lord descended upon 1t in fire; and
the smoke thereof assembled as the smoke OF fur
mace and the whole mount quaked greatly. -
(Exod. xix. 49, Nature airighted, trembled In the
presence OF Natures God The assembled myrlads
of Israel surrounded the Mount 600 900 men, their
wives and children, the strangers that had joined
themselves unto the fortunes OF lsrael-ali were
present The camp deserted, for Moses
brought forth the people out OF the camp to meet
with God and stood at the neither part OF the
Mount"-Qbid, V, ~ Three millions OF human
souls-each one of whom had witnessedthe mighty
deeds Of the Lord in Egypt, and has passed through
the LIQUID walls OF the he'd Sea, when His power
piled the foaming pillows like unto solid stones,
TILL tier tier, they stood upright in towering al
ttude-iormed the glorious assembly who had en-
tered into Q compact with their Creator, and were
about to receive his law. Yet accustomed as they
were, more than other human beings, to supernat-
ura and miraculous events, they could not meet
the hal,owed and glorious scenes before them
And all tho people saw the thunderings aud the
hghtnings and the noise OF the trumpet and the
mountain smoking, and when the people saw 1t
they removed and stood aiar Oft And they said
unto Moses, speak thou with US and we Will hear,
but let not God speak withas, lest we die (Exod'
Xxx. le. 49,
ut il now more than three thousand years ago
aimee on Pentecost, the sixth day of the third
month, lSivan) our ancestors stood at Mount Slna
and heard the living God proclaim, . am the Lord
thy God thou shalt have no other gods before me
Such was the great truth which then AS revealed
unto them, and to spread the knowledge of which
among the nations OF the earth, they were chosen.
Since then the lsraeites have undergone vicissi-
tudes innumerable, aud experienced countless
changes Of fortune but still-in prosperity as in
adversity, In good and evil report, honored or
soorned. oppressed or cherished, sometimes I'M
willingly, but most frequently with unlimited devo-
ton-they have remained true to their Office. To
them, the world, however unwilling TO acknowl-
edge the obligation, is indebted for all religious
truth that 10 known among men. Through them
and their mistaken constancy, the triumph OF truth
will finally be accomplished"
The Congregation Anshi Cbesed was founded
(says the Asmoneanl in or about 1896, by the
laudable exertions Of q few pious Individuals who
by the blessing of Providence, have been spared Il
see the scion they so humbly planted take root
thrive and On cad forth until beneath its branche,
and foliage more than q thousand grateful voice.
NAV blend their notes in one mighty thanksgivin.
70 the ereat Father of all for that in his mercie
he did permit men who in other lands did, IN thei
day aud generation. see and feel The "oppressor
wrong and the proud mans contumely,' but who
planting their feet on land where INDUSTRY AM
INTEGRITY are the only patents Of mans nobility
have. from meeting in a small room with barrel.
minyon, gone ON from day to day-season unit