The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-20
WILL CELEBRATE
 ATONEMENT DAY
CONGREGATION H'NAl BIRTH TO HOLD SERVICES THIS EVEN.
 ING AT THE TEMPLE.
Something of the importance Of the Observance of This Day to the
 People of This Church.

| Cong. House of Israel will celebrate the Day of Atonement in it's Temple.
 corner Quapaw and Market streets. by special services to be held tonight rat 1880 o'clock, and an ali day ser vice on Saturday. beginning at 10 am. Special music has been arranged for this festival, and Rabbi Rhine will of- ficiate and preach both at the morn ing, afternoon anu evening services. A special memorial service will be held Saturday at 4 pm. You are cor dially invited
 When the first star appears in the heavens Friday evening, September 20, they will usher in the day holiest
 to the Jew in his entire religious cal-
 endar From that hour until the
 evening of the following day, Sep tember 21. the devout Israe,ite will
 give himself entirely to God, and to
 the purifying of his soul by repent
 ance. It will be a~ day spent by him
 in meditation and prayer, with no
 thought of the world, it's profits or
 pleasures. It is the great White Fast.
 when, abstaining from all food. from
 sundown to sundown, the people of
 Israel "aflict their sous" for the sins
 of the past year.
 The holy day is mentioned in the
 Bible in number of places; Levitt
 GUS XVI describes the elaborate
 priestly ceremonial of atonement. {.
 ibid XXIII, 26-32, 1t appears in the
 list of festivals where the rafflic-
 ton of the soul" (fasting) is ordained: ::
 ibid KY, 9, announces that on the
 Day of Atonement. each fiftieth year,
 the trumpet sound shal usher in the
 jubilee year; while Numbers XxIX,
 7-11, describes the sacrifices of this
 sacred day From these references
 and later accounts in thes Talmud we
 can get picture of this Day of Ave
 as 1t was celebrated in Biblical times.
 The holy day on the tenth day Of
 Tishri was observed by abstention
 from food and drink and by an elab-
 crate ceremonial in which the high priest was the central figure. He besought forgiveness for his own sins and those of his own household, then for those of the wider household of
 priests, then for all the people. Of two goats, he slaughtered one as a sacrifice for the Lord and set the
 other aside flor Azazel" The blood of the sacrifices he sprinkled upon the
 curtain of the Holy of Holies, to puri- | fy it from the sins of the people.
 l From this Biblical ceremonial i which throughout seeks for forgive
 ness of the community as whole. the Day of Atonement has been some what changed in Rabbinic Judaism and in the modern service and em- phasizes only repentance and person al prayer for the forgiveness of each l individual sinning soul. It completes | the penitential period of ten days that had begun with the New Years Day. The celebration of the Day Of Atonement begins in the synagog with the evening service. called Kol Nidre from it's opening formula, which re- fers to vows concerning the individ- ual and his conscience With it's strongly marked melodies and songs, this service assumed In the course ,f time very impressive character. Throughout the following day con- tinuous series of services is held, which toward the middle of the aft , ernoon is heightened in impressive ness by most solemn commemora tive service for the dead. This is fos- lowed by the Neilah or closing ser vice in which the main ideas of the
 day are especially emphasized re- pentance conditioning forgiveness and
 Gods sealing the decree of man for
 the ensuing year. The service ends with a solemn invocation of Gods name. the Shema and the seven fold exclamation, The Lord. He is God" AS a signal of the close of the sacred day, the trumpet tshofar) is blown once and the devout worshiper turns homeward from Gods house with the assurance that in reward for his true and sincere repentance the sins of the past have been forgiven.