The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-10
'YOM KIPPUR,
SOLEMN FAST OF
JEWS, BEGINS
Day of Atonement, Most Sacred
Observance, Goes Back to
Worship of Golden Calf.

Alta sunset tonight, or, as the older
Jewish writers had it, when three
stars are visible in the horizon be-
gins the fast of the Atonement, the
Yom Kippur, the most solemn observ-
ance OF the Jewish calendar.
With the ending of Rosh-ha-shanah
will end the joyful celebration of the
Jewish New Year for 1914, according
to the Hebrew calendar, and the feast
ing Will be followed by twenty-four
hours of fasting and atonement for
sins
There win be services in all jewish
places of worship beginning this even
ing at first star shine and these SER
vices will be continued during Satur-
day On Yom Kippur the greatest
the country make special addresses.
1T Is q day OF spiritual revival as well
as of ritual
The ritual OF the observance is very
elaborate and in part reproduces some
OF the ceremonies of the old temple
at Jerusalem Some authorities hold
tthattThe, Day, as the Talmudfcal writ
hers ofken refer to it, was perhaps or
1ginauY meant only as temporary
hday of ,expiation for the sin of wor-
chipping the golden calf It Yves.
thoweve1 permanently instituted by
Moses as q day of atonement for sins
I'm general 1t became in ancient
s71u9es. the great day of national hui
#Eu1lzE1nOng and the only one CC60Qan<1-
ed Ins1he3HGosaic law.
SUnes have inferred from Lev. XVII
that the day was instituted on account
of the SIN. OF ,Nadaab and Abil1u- Mai
mnn1aess regards 1t as a connemora-
1iDn 014fhe day On which Moses came
tdoWu~ from the mount with the sec
Ao1sd ta.hBef. of the flaw and proclaimed
20 the People the forgiveness of their
great sin In Vz0rsh2ppdng the golden
caa1.
-
ruD6eEn obSeHwauceS are based were
very 1aborf0us, especially for the high
Hprfssf, who had to prepare himself
zur1uE Sthe previous seven days in
zae&r7y SOLITARY Confinement, for the
sss1vzcess which srEaieed him, and abb
Gtafnr during that period from all that
#cou1d render him uncIean or disturb
his dev0tionR- The day was kept by
1heGVhofe people as q solemn Sabbath,
much a. 1t Is now, and the people
SEere., commanded to set aside all work
#ande ITO afrl1c4 'fheir, souls" under pain
of being ~cut on from among the
peopze.'s Ttswas the Day of Atone
sEnank fnat the high priest was per-
Knitted. 30 enter the Holy Of HollieS.
nowadays in preparation for the
&fea<t of@Yom Kippur, many Jews par
&4ake Of a feast before going to the
Meynagugue for the first service. 1t is
kcustonnaxy for the worshippers to dress
Fin their best or IN new clothes
or the modern meaning OF the Lay
kof At0nement, Rabbi Alexander Ly-
ons sof. New York says:
The idea IL that by fasting one
Rxives; evidence of his desire to atone
for wrong that may have been done
Kin the, past year The Atonement as
ktaughtt today insists upon the con-
kfession of wrong by the individual
land the making up to the best of his
liability of whatever wrong he may
khave done Many or most of the
Jews abstain from food and drink dur
/ ing the twenty-four hours of the OBJ
servance.''
The period of observance of the fast
win end at sunset tomorrow.