The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-09-17
DR.. ACKERMAN WILL
CONDUCT SERVICES
At TEMPLE TONIGHT
CELEBRATION OF YOM KIPPUR
OR DAY OF ATONEMENT COM
MENCES THIS EVENING. WITH
APPROPRIATE SERVICE.

The celebration of Yom Kippur, or
the Day of Atonement, the most
solemn fast of the Jewish calendar,
and the one most generally observed,
will begin at Temple BETHEL this
evening. The first service will be
held at s o'clock, when DR.. William
Alderman win deliver reSture on
''The Message of the Day of Atone
ment." Saturday, there will be al
most continuous services at the Tenn
! pie, beginning at 10 o'clock, with a
talk on Immortality"
| Memorial services will be held at
o'clock Saturday afternoon. There
will be an excellent program of
music, rendered by specially
trained choir. Mrs. Ralph C. Holberg
of Mobile and Miss Fannie Waggen-
helm are the sopranos, Mrs. Heron
D'Alemberte alto, Messrs. Harry
/ Waggenheim and John Frenkel ten
ors, and Mr.. I. Hirschmann, bass.
Mrs. Flynn is the organist, and the
instrumental part of the choir con-
sists of Mr.. Max Heinberg, DR.. M. A.
Lischkoff, DR.. Bertram Dannheisser,
and Mr.. Bertram Coleman.
The initial service is held in the
evening of the 18th of September.
The entire day of the 18th of Sep
TENDER is devoted to it. The ritual of
the day is public and congregational;
but its significance is personal.
| The day brings the people together
because they share the limitations OF
human nature and because they are
equally aware of the fact that our
career, whatever they may be to
! others, satisfy or dissatisfy ourselves
in accordance with our moral or i'm
moral interests. This Holy Day gives
opportunity for earnest thought on
our inner life. The difficulties men
encounter in the course of a busy
year may prove, after self-examina-
ton, to be not "decrees" of God but
instances of their shortcomings. The
ancients frankly and humbly called
them "sins."
The "reminiscences of centuries
cling to this day of days and make
/ its sessions suggestive and impress
sive. In ancient times priestly SOL
emnities invested it with dignity and
the prosecutions of later times gave
it pathos and intense fervor. 1t is
always salutary experience to face
the facts of life as they are, to re-
alize that there are illusions and de-
lusions, to bring home to ourselves
the truth that we work under Sne
limitations of mind, heart and will.
Men who feel their responsibilities
will neither ignore this reminder nor
evade the appeal. They will frankly
avow the shortcomings of their COM
mon human nature in the midst Of
their fellowmen. The Day of Atone
ment is not for selfish privacies, as
little as for penitenee which is mere
ly penance. 1t is for moral uplift
by which we may acquire moral
strength. The first act of moral
: health is humility.
S The ritual of the day expresses
: openness, sympathy and a desire tc
e attain to a moral will. And so dc
the customs of the day. Fasting is
. meant as discipline of self-control
the sponsor of many virtues. Con,
centration upon the problems Of
character makes it easy and noble
Public confession of sins is an act 81
will, an assertion of the best in one,
self. The day brings men together
/ in a consciousness of their common
: mortality. Judaism makes men gen
6 timely democratic; it makes them re
alize that they are equal before God
/ One phase of the ritual of the da,
Z is the thought and memory of tn,
: dead. Each man thinks of the vol
:, that has come into his caree
: through the loss of kindred and O
: the obligations he has because of it
4 And all think of the Eminent Dead
e of the men of efficiency and world
t influence, who have served and ad
e vanced the good of the world. Il
! this too there is evidence of the de
+ mocracy of Judaism. Whatever thei
2 origin or place, the great and GOO
n are mentioned with appreciation.
= The day of Atonement is a day 70
I inner peace, and accordingly, tn
Jews reassert their loyalty to peac
i for themselves and for mankind. B
d the assertion of the better self the
broaden it into goodwill for fellow
q men. Know myself, and if thou dosi
= thou wilt understand, feel with an
: respect thy fellowman. This is tn
Se basis of justice and peace.