The San Francisco call., 1898-09-16
impressive Services at
 the Synagogue.
WILL BE A DAY OF REST
THE HOLIDAY TO BE STRICTLY
 OBSERVED.
Religious Exercises To-Night Will Mark the Advent of the Great Celebration-Its Sacred
 Portent

The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashono, will be appropriately observed in this city tomorrow and Sunday. Saturday will be the first day of the Hebrew month Tishri, the first ecclesiastical month of the Jew Ish calendar. and, according to Semitic computation, it is the five thousand six hundred and fifty-ninth year of the crea- ton of the world.
 The festival will be ushered in this even ing by exercises in all the synagogues and will be observed by the orthodox or con- servative element of the community until Sunday evening. The Temple Emanu-El congregation, being reform in its ideas, will, however, only recognize 1t for one day. This day will be observed strictly by all, for no matter how lax the Jew may be as regards the observance of the minor lasts and festivals, he is ever scrupulously careful to see that the New Year and the Day of Atonement are spent in behttingly religious manner. He will close his office or store, and the down town portion of the city will know him not on those Days of Ave- as they are appropriately termed.
 The synagogues during the festival will present a striking appearance. They will be dressed entirely in white. A mantle of white satin will ornament the Ark of the Covenant, wherein rest the manu- script scrolls of the law. The pulpit and reading desk where chants the Chazan, or cantor. will be likewise covered. Min isters of the orthodox congregations will be robed in white linen.
 Sermons will be delivered in all syna- gogues on the first day of the New Year. The shofar, or cornet, fashioned out of times with different tntonations. The ob- Ject of these blasts is to bring the con- gregation to due sense of the solemnity of the day.
 Yom Kippur. or the Day of Atonement, follows ten days after Rosh Hashono. This day Is strictly observed by all. re- gardless of differences of opinion on mat ters commercial, as a day of fasting and prayer. The fast begins at sunset of the Eth day Of TiShri, and concludes with sunset on the 10th. During these twenty four hours no Jew will partake of food in any shape or form.
 The evening of Tom Kippur is called Koi Nidre from the two opening words of the services. Sermons will be preached on that evening in the Temple Emanu-El by Rev. Jacob Voorsanger, at the Synagogue Sherith Israel by Rev. Jacob Nieto, at the Geary-street Temple by Rev. M. s. Levy and in the Bush-street Temple by Rev. Isadore Meyers.
 During the day of Tom Kippur four services, named respectively Schacharit. Musaph, Mincha and Neilah will be held successively. Sermons will be preached either before Musaph or before Neilah.
 Five days after the day of atonement will witness the celebration of the Feast of Succoth or Booths. With this festival are revived many ancient and quaint cer- emontes to commemorate the fact that while the Hebrews were wandering in the wilderness their only places of abode were booths or tents. It is from this that the festival derives its name. The good Jew will erect temporary structure of wood roofed with boughs of evergreen, called a "Succoth,' and will take his meals in this frail tent for seven days.
 In the synagogue the orthodox Jews will form processions, carrying in their hands palm branches and citrons. While walking in procession around the syna- gogue with these they will chant the hallel, or hymns of praise.
 On the seventh day sf Succoth called HOsanna Rabba, The Great Hosanna,' ' all visitors to the synagogues of the orthodox will be presented with a hand will strew the floors of their places of worship in imitation of the priests of the ancient Hebrews.
 With the observance of the feast of the eighth day and the last one, called "The Rejoicing of the Law" the festivals will come to close On the former of these days an allegorical prayer for rain will be offered this being a survival of the days of the Babylonian exile. and the SO journ in the Holy Land, and is supposed to insure winter that win work no in jury to the vegetation of the land.
 "The Rejoicing of the Law" derives its name from the fact that among conserva tive Jewish congregations the fifty-twC portions into which the Pentateuch is di ter of Genesis is recommended on this day. The process of finishing and recon. mencing has gone on uninterruptedly fol many centuries, and Is marked by the ob. servance of numerous quaint customs.
 OAKLAND. Sen 15-Rosh Hashono the Jewish New Year, begins tomorrow at sundown and will be observed bv the members of the Congregation Beth Ja cob. Rev. w. Livingston, noted East ern rabbi, has been specially engaged fol the coming holidays.