South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-09-15
ATONEMENT DAY TO
BE OBSERVED HERE
Jewish Feast Will Begin at
Shutdown Friday and End
After "a Hours.

Appropriate services for the day of
Atonement will be observed Friday and
Saturday at Temple Bethel. The sub
iect of Friday evening for the I:45
o'clock services will be AN Earnest
Word: for the Saturday morning ser
vices at 10 O'Clock Il Know" These
sermons will be preached by DR.. A.
Cronbach. Saturday afternoon services
will consist of a memorial service and
conclusion service, all without preach
ing children's service Will begin
at 1870 o'clock Saturday afternoon,
which will not exceed a half hour IN
duration.
The Jewish day of Atonement be
gins at shutdown Friday. Sept. Il. and
ends at shutdown Saturday the follow
ing day. The date, according TO the
Jewish calendar is the 10th day OF
Tishri. Mention is made Of the holl-
day in Leviticius. chapters Is and p,
and in Numbers, chapter %.
In ancient DAYS before the destruc-
ton of the Temple at Jerusalem the
observance was marked by certain
special celebrations of the sacriticial
ritual This was the day when among
other things, the scape goat bearing
the peoples sins was sent from the
temple TO the wilderness. This also
was the one occasion in the year when
entered None might enter the Holy
of Holes excepting the high priest
and he might enter it only after hav-
ing arrayed himself in certain special
garments and having performed GER
tain special ceremOnialS of ablutlOns,
sacrifice, and incense. Within the
Holy of Holes the high priest would
beseech forgiveness for his own sins.
for the forgiveness of the sins of his
household, and then for the sins of
all Israel. He would further offer
supplicatiOn, says tradition, that
there might be love and brotherhood
and peace and friendship.
Observed Fast.
After the destruction Of the Tenn
pie at Jerusalem, the only feature of
the original Atonement day that con
tinued TO be observed was the "a hour
fast. Supplanting the ceremonials of
the ancient temple. special prayers
came to be offered i'm the synagog.
These prayers. many of them marked
by extraordinary sublimity and inn
pressiveness. have as their themes
such ideas as those of sin, forgiveness,
human fraility, divine Justice divine
mercy, the brevity and vanity of hu-
man life, the eternity of God, the ma
tional restoration of Israel, the hope
of hereafter and kindred thoughts.
A custom which has obtained
among the Jews for many centuries
and which still exists among extremely
orthodox Jews is that of wearing on
Atonement day. robes Of white. SYM
bolic of purity and the joy of for
giveness and also suggestive of death
with it's burial shroud of white. It
is also a custom as Atonement day
approaches to ask and to accord for
givenesS where injuries have been
afflicted or suffered and TO effect the
restoration of broken friendships.
Besides the lengthy evening service,
there is in the Orthodox synagog a
day service lasting continuously from
early morning until shutdown In
some European localities. the service
is continuous all night and all day
from shutdown to shutdown.
Very few of these traditional usages
survive any longer among Reform
Jews The Reform Atonement SER
vices while elaborate and impressive
and invariably well attended are brief
and simple compared with the tradi-
tional Orthodox services.