Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-09-30
DAY OF ACHIEVEMENT
CELEBRATION OF HEBREW ANNI-
vERsARY BEGINS TONIGHT.
Fasting and Prayer for Period of
Twenty-Four Hours-Program
Of Local Churches.

Services of Yom Kippur, or the day of
atonement. which marks the end of the
season of repentance for the year SEGA
wherever the Hebrew race exists, will be-
gin in the orthodox churches at sunset this
evening, and will continue until nightfall
Thursday evening. Throughout the period
intervening between sunset today and
nightfall tomorrow, the time will be spent
In fasting, prayer and other abnegations.
Not only will the fasting season be literally
observed. but all human desires will be put
aside. and only the face and hands of the
Hebrew person will be cleansed with water.
In order that the prescribed time set by
the ritual might be observed, the services
at Adath Israel Synagogue, orthodox, at
9th and G streets. will begin before
o'clock this evening with the chant of Kol
nidre. Following the chant the sermon OF
Yom Kfppur will be delivered by Rabbi j.
T. Loeb of the congregation. The regular
service consists of the singing of various
hymns, confessions of sin and prayers fol-
lowing the sermon. 1t is expected that the
ceremonies will continue until about 10
O'Clock. The following day the services
will begin at $40 o'clock in the morning,
continuing until nightfall. The days devo-
lions will consist of four sermons, the
saph. or additional the Minchah, or even
ing and the Neilak, or concluding service.
Following the morning service is the
perusal of the sixteenth chapter of Levitt
Gus and the seventh to eleventh verses of
the twenty-ninth chapter of Numbers. In
the afternoon exercises the eighteenth
chapter of Leviticus will be read.
The portion of the prophets that are
tateuch is also in the order of the day of
atonement services. Perhaps the most
striking admonition in the book of Isaiah
Is the lesson selected for the reading of
fom Kippur. This is to be found in the
14th verse of both the 57th and 5Sth chap
ters-a sermon on sincerity, charity. free
dom, kindness and benevolence intoxicating
the manner of true repentance and atone
ment enjoining the observance of the He
brew Sabbath.
In Eighth Street Temple.
The services In observance of Yom Kippur
pur at the Eighth Street Temple will begin
at o'clock this evening and will last prob
ably several hours. The regular services
peculiar to the day will be held. which will
include sermon by Rabbi Louis Stern
Arrangements have been made for a spe-
cial music service. which will consist of Sc
lectfons by the choir duets and solos, The
services will begin tomorrow morning at
$50 o clock, continuing throughout the day
until o'clock in the evening according to
w
will deliver an address. The Temple Choral
Society will participate in the concluding
services which are especially impressive.
The day of atonement is the most impor-
tant event in the Jewish calendar, and oc-
ours the 10th of the seventh month Tishri.
According to the Both verse and the 18th
chapter Of Levittcus it is the day on which
God will forgive you, to cleanse you, that
you may be clean from all your sins before
the Lord"
One of the customs among communities
of the Hebrew faith during this solemn sea-
son is to visit the graves of the departed.
In compliance with this custom the congre-
cation of Adath Israel Synagogue held me-
mortal services at the burying grounds of
the synagogue last Sunday. The exercises
consisted of prayers, the chanting of psalms
and an address by Rabbi j. T. Loeb. The
congregation of the Eighth Street Temple
also observed the day by holding services
over their dead.