Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-13
Jewish New Year viii be Ushered
in With Ceremony Tonight
THE SERVICES IN SALT LAKE
Historical Trumpet call VIII pe
Sounded and Festival VIII "ee'"
Fine Mu deal Program

l. The Jewish new year, the most solemn
Of all seasons in the Jewish calendar
viii be ushered In tonight by the jew
Ish people all over the world. NO olher
season or festival has the significance
Of this one TO the Jewish people, ana no
other is so surrounded with the tradl-
lions OF the race. with today Is con-
cluded the Ave thousand ak hundred
and slxty.seoond year since the creation
OF the world, according TO the jews
ana this festival, which commences "
night with the ushering In OF I'VE"
Hashona. (the beginning OF tne YEN y,
and ends ten days hence win I'm
Kppur" tatonement day., II seaso"
OF pentence an dserlous selt-eNaIiiiha
tlon.
Services will be held this evening az
the synagogue, the Temple B'Nai lsIael,
and also tomorrow morning, ny haup,
Reynolds. The historical trumpet en-
viii be sounded announcing the tesu-
val and calling the people to a feall1a
ton Of It's seriousness. The trunhpet
cali IL one OF significant features OF the
festival and traditions galore surround
it's origin and existence, Another lea-
ture will be the music. II VIII all be
the old traditional music OF the race,
music that has come down WIN the
ages and composed by no one knows
whom, but still beautiful and filled win
significance to the faithful.
There are many legends about inns
festival II has been called a day OF
judgment. and there II legend that
hos IL that on new years night God SITS
upon n throne with two books before
Him, one the book OF life, the other the
book OF death In which are inscribed
the names and fate OF all mortals. on
this night also II decreed, according 10
traditions, whether plenty or famine,
war or peace, good or III fortune, shall
be the lot OF man, and according 10 the
sincerity with which individuals deter
mine TO avoid folly, can these DEGREES
he altered.
When seen today Rabbi Reynolds said
about this festivals "The new year
day in the Jewish church N festlVal
based upon the mention made In the ola
testament OF the day Of memorial or
blowing OF the trumpet. II was origin
ally an autumn holiday, when the vast
changes In nature were 10 symbolic 10
man the mutabilty of his own destiny
II later became associated with the
Jewish chronology and was designated
the first day OF The year. Perhaps no
other festival on the calendar so dis
tlnctly brings out the peculiar religious
temperament OF the Jews. To him
everything wears a moral aspect The
blooming fields In the spring and the
whitening flowers In the autumn are re-
minders and emblems Of the progress
md retrogression Of mans life, win
the other nations and races the new
| years day Is day OF rejoicing, W
| ousing, and merry making-with the
Jews II Is n day Of stern reckoning. IL
is balancing OF accounts-a serious
retrospection for considering the deeds
done In the past and q day OF resolu-
tIpns, 10 resolve TO do better IN the
future. II Is because OF this that II us
considered 10 be festival Of extreme
sacredness and solemnity when all as
semble TO pray. TO contemplate, to think
and 10 resolve. II Is continued for ten
DAYS, known as the days OF penitence
and ending with the day OF atonement
"The Jewish new year has Increased
| greatly In Importance, and to the faith
| fil Jews has meaning more greatly
! cherished than has any other FESTIVAL
! The day Of atonement Is day for fast-
| ing and at It's conclusion the sincere,
| whole hearted, honest. jew has fixed
| within his mind firm resolve to tread
| the noblest life of which he IL capable