The morning call., 1894-09-29
JEWISH HOLIDAYS
ROSh HashOno About to
Be Observed.
INTERESTING CEREMONIES.
Monday Will Be the First Day of
the Month.
OPENING SERVICES TOMORROW.
How the New Year and Day of Atone
ment Will Be Celebrated
in This City.
OPENING SERVICES TOMORROW

On Monday next, the 1st of October all
good Jews will observe Rosh HashonO, or
the New Year. 1t is the first day of the
Hebrew month Tishri-the first ecclesias-
teal month of the Jewish calendar.
According to Jewish com putation ii is the
five thousand six hundred and tfty-hfth
year of the creation of the world.
The festival will be usheTed in on the
evening Of September 80 by services in ell
synagogues, and il will be observed by the
orthodox or conservative section of the
community until the evening of October 2.
The Temple Emanuel congregation.
being reform" in their ideas. will only
recognize it for one day. This one day
will be observed strictly by all, for, no
matter how lax the Jew may be as regards
the observance OF the minor fasts of fes-
tivities. he is always scrupulously careful
to see that the New Year aud Day of
AtOnement are spent in befittiugly re-
hgiOus manner. He will close his Office or
store. and the downtown portion of the
city VIII not know him on those days of
awe" as they are termed.
The synagOgues will present striking
appearance. They will be decked entirely
IN white. A mantle of whits satin will
ornament the ark of the covenant wherein
rest the manuscript scrolls of the law. The
pulpit and reading desk, where chants the
chazan or cantor, will be likewise COW
cred. The ministers of the orthodox COLI
gregatiOn will be rObed in white.
Sermons will he delivered in all sYna-
gogues on The first day of the new year.
The Shofar, or cOrnet, fashioned out of
the horn of a ram, viii be blown thirty
times with different intonations. The
object OF this is To bring the audience 10 a
due sense Of the sOIennity of the day.
4Om kIDpuT, or the Day OF AlOnement
follows ten days after Rosh Hashono.
differences Of opinion on matters commu-
MAJ as day of fasting and prayer. The
last begins at sunset on the 9th of October
and TIL sunset OF the 10th DO Jew will par
take OF food in any shsps or form.
The evening of Yom kippur is called
kol Nidre from the TWO opening words Of
the prayers uSed on the occasion. Ser
mons will be preached 10 The Temple
Emanu-El by DR.. j. cob Voorsanger, in me
Snerltu Israel synagogue by the Rev.
Jacob Neto, in the Beth Israel Temple on
Geary street by the Rev. NJ. 5. Levy, and
in the Golden Gate Hall, where the Ohabai
Shalome congregation will worship. by
the Rev. d.. 5. ii. Sonneschein.
Four services, named respectively Scha-
cnrit, Musaph, Mincha and Neilah, will
oe held continuously on the Day of Atone
ment. Sermons will be preached either
before Musapn or'before Neilah.
On October 10 will he celebrated "The
Feast of Booths" or "SuccOtb." With this
festival are revived many quaint and
ancient ceremonies to commemorate the
fact that while the Hebrews were wander
ers in the wilderness their only places of
abode were booths or tents. 1t is from
this that the festival derives its name. The
good jew will erect a temporary structure
of WOOD, rooted with bOughs OF evergreen.
called "Succoh," and will take his meals
in this fraiI tent Tor seven days.
In the synagogue the orthodox Jews
will form professions, carrying in their
hands lulOyim or palm branches and esro.
GIN or citrons. While walking round the
synagogue with these they viii chant the
ballel or Hymns of Praise"
On the seventh day of Succotb. called
Hoshana Raboa, "The Great Hosana," the
succOh will he used for the last time prior
TO its demolition. All visit rs to the syna-
gOgues of the orthodox on that day will be
presented with a handful of willow
bOughs. With these the floor of the syna-
gegue VII DE strewn in imitation of the
priests OF the ancient Hebrews.
With the observance of Shemini AZeret.
"The Feast of the Eight Day." and Sim
chat TOrah, THE Rejoicing of the Law"
the festivals will come to close. On the
former OF these days will be offered the
"Geshem." or prayer for rain, in pursu-
ance of custom which holds in the Holy
Land to this day.
"Simchat Torah" derives its name from
the fact that among conservative Jewish
congregations the fifty-twO weekly pOr-
tions into which the PentaUeuch is divided
are completed. and the first chapter of
Genesis is Immediately recommended on
this day. The process of finishing and re-
commencing has continued uninterrupt-
edy for many centuries.