The San Francisco call., 1897-09-26
WILL OBSERVE
TABIR FESTIVALS
The Hebrew New Year to
Be Ushered In This
Evening.
Divine Service in the Syna-
gogues, With Sermons by
the Rabbis.
The Celebration to Continue During
Two Days-0ther Fasts and
Feasts.

serve Rosh Hashono, or the New Year.
1t is the eve of the first day of the He
brew month Tishri, the first ecclesiastical
month OF the Jewish calendar. According
TO Jewish computation it is the five thou
sand six hundred and fifty-eighth year of
the creation OF the world.
The festival will be ushered in by services
in all synagogues. 1t will be observed by the
orthodox or conservative section OF the
community until the evening OF Septem-
Der 25 The Temple Emanuel congrega-
tion, being reform in their ideas, will
only recognize it for one day. but this will
be observed strictly by all, for no matter
how lax the Jew may be as regards the
observance of the minor fasts or festivals,
he is always scrupulously careful to see
that the New Year and the Day of Atone.
ment are spent in a befiItingiy religious
manner. He will close his Office or store
and the downtown portions of the city will
not know him on those days of Awe" as
they are termed.
The synagoQues will present striking
appearance. They will be decked entire
in white. A mantle of white saIln will
ornament the ark of the covenant, where
in rests the manuscript scrolls OF the law.
The pulpit and reading-desk where chants
the CLdZdH OF CHnlOE Will De llhe"ISe
covered. The ministers of the orthodox
congregations will be robed in white.
Sermons will be delivered in all syna-
gogues on the first dav of the New Year.
The shofar or oornet fashioned out of the
horn of ram will be blown thirty times
with different intonations. The object OF
this is 10 bring the audience to due
sense of the solemnity of the day.
Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement,
Fol
This day is observed by all regardless of
differences of opinion on matters commu-
nal as Il day Of fasting and prayer. The
fast begins at sunset on the ninth day OF
Tishri, and till sunset of the tenth no
Jew will partake OF food in any shape or
form.
the evening OF Yom Kippur is called
KoI Nidre from the two opening words OF
The prayers used on the occasion. Ser
mons will be preached IN the Temple
Emanuel by DR.. Jacob Voorsanger. In
the Sheriff. Israel Synagogue by the Rev.
Jacob Nieto, in the Beth Israel lem pie on
Geary street by the Rev. NJ S. Levy and
f.. the Bush-street Temple by Rev. lsidore
Meyers.
-Four services, named respectively
Schachrit, Musaph, Mincha and Neilah,
will be held continuously on the Day of
Atonement. Sermons will be preached
eith4r before Musaph or before Neilah.
Five days alter Yom Kippur will be
celebrated ''The Feast OF Booths, or
"Succoth." With this festival are re-
vived many quaint and ancient cerem o.
nies to mmemorate the fact that while
The Hebrews were wanderers In the will
derEess their only places of abode were
booths or tents. 1t is from this that the
festival derives its name TAe good Jew
will erect temporary structure of wood.
rooted with boughs OF evergreen, called
"Succoh." and will take his meals in this
frail tent for seven days.
In the synagogue the orthodox Jews
will form PROFESSIONS carrying in their
hands lulovim, or palm branches, and es-
rogim, or cilrons. While walking round
the synagogue with these they VIII chant
the hallel, or hymns of praise.
On the seventh dav OF Succoth, called
Hoshana Rabba, THE Great Hosana"
the Succoh W ill be used for the last time
prior to it's demolition. All visitors to
the synegogues of the orthodox on that
willow boughs. With these the floor of
the synagogue will be strewn, in imita-
ton of the priests of the ancient He
brews.
With the observance of Shemini Azeret,
the feast of the eighth day, and Simchat
Torah, Tine Rejoicing of the Law" the
festivals will come TO close: On the
lOrHlSr OI lneSe uayS VIII pS oIl' Ieu tHe
"Geshem," or prayer for rain, in puTsu-
ance OF n custom which holds in the Holy
Land to this day.
"Simchat Torah" derives it's name
from the TACT that among conservative
Jewish congregations the fifly-two weekly
portions into which the Pentateuch is di-
yided are completed and the first chapter
of Genesis is immediately recommended
on this day. The process of finishing and
recommending has continued uninter-
ruptedly for many centuries.