The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-10-05
JEWISH NEW YEAR
=, ENDED LAST NIGHT
DR.. Newfield's Sermon at The
Temple Emanuel
MUST LIVE FOR TODAY
Rabbi Takes "Iurae1's Glory and Duty
As His Subject and Urges Hear
ers to Prove Worthy of Their
Forefathers.
MUST LIVE FOR TODAY

ROSn HaShonan, the jewish New ear,
closed yesterday evening at sun down,
after a day of abstinence from work and
general praise among those of Jewish
faith. The holiday was fttingly cele-
brated yesterday morning and Monday at
shutdown at the two Jewish temples In
the city, the Temple Emanuel and the
Synagogue K'Nesseth Israel.
DIR. Morris Newfield, the rabbi Of Con-
gregation Emanuel, preached both the
sermons at that temple. while Rabbi
Julius T. Loeb delivered the sermons at
the Synagogue K'Nesseth Israel.
Ten days from Monday, or Wednesday
of next week. will begin the Jewish Day
of Atonement' or Yom Kippur, when all
people of Jewish faith will abstain from
food and drink as well as from manual
labor for period of "a hours, which will
be spent in offering prayers In penitence.
The day of fast begins at shutdown next
Wednesday.
Stores of Jewish proprietors which were
closed yesterday on account of the holiday
will be open again today. and will not
be closed for another holiday until next
Thursday.
Temple EMANUEL Services
The celebration of Rosh Hashonah was
continued at Temple Emanuel yesterday
morning at 1890 with services both beau
tiful and impressive.
Taking as his subject "Israel's Glory
and Duty" DIR. Newfield again interpreted
for his hearers In an interesting manner
the symbolism of Rosh Hashonah.
mo day is so potent in its influence
or so powerful in the dominance of soul
fitness over selfshness. This day opens
wide the gates of memory. 1t is called
by the Jewish sages The Day of Re-
memberance.' because the name well
characterizes the spirit and the solicitude
with which the Jew meets the new year.
LAS a day of remembrance it has a
double significance-it resurrects past
pleasures, 1t softens the sorrows and as
suages the griefs that are but living in
memory, and 1t warns many a heart that
has grown benumbed with grief.
But memory has a still higher func-
ton along the lines not of the physical.
not even of the spiritual, but of the
moral. Viewed from the moral stand
point, the function of memory is to eter-
nalize the past-to emphasize the fact
that we of today are living upon the eff
fects> made eternal by generations of
long ago. Unless we realize this-our
debt to the passive can not live in the
present nor for the future.
Must Live For Today
while emphasizing the great import
ance of the past, yet we as men of today
dare not live in the past nor for the past.
We must live for today. We dare not
ignore the march of progress. Life is ever
rushing on. Whatever stagnates will de-
cay and die. Hence, while realizing the
past we must be ever facing the future
And this is the message which / am
bringing to the men and women of this
today"
DR.. Newfeld closed his sermon with
brief review of Judaism, in which he
said, ut is well to realize that Judaism.
though dating back to antiquity, is fol-
lowed by millions today. Thousands of
years before the sermon on the mount the
tenets of Judaism were proclaimed by its
priests, It's lawgivers and its psalmists.
The same faith that inspired the martyrs
and the heroes of the past inspires the
martyrs and the heroes of today. The
Jew has been pillaged and plundered and
murdered for more than 5000 years. but
his faith remains the same
The rabbi concluded his talk with an
exnortation to his people to build a
Judaism that we can glory and honor,
in the present, even as we glory and hon.
or In the judaism of the past"
The musical numbers throughout the
services were we'll chosen, and rendered
with exceptional beauty. Among the Sc
lections were: Prayer" solo by Mr.. Hef-
lin; "As the Heart Panteth," Mendel-
ssohn, by double quartet, and cornet solo,
nv Mr. We'll