The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1951-04-20
Passover
Celebration
Starts Tonight

celebrated by the B'Nai Zfon
Congregation as well as by al
Jewery throughout the world be-
ginning with shutdown today and
continuing through Saturday
April 20.
Rabbi A. Schwartz Of Key West
announces services will be held
IL z O'clock tonight; at o'clock
tomorrow morning; at Z O'Clock
tomorrow night; and at 8 O'Clock
Sunday morning in the synago-
cue here.
Traditional Sader services will
be held at individual homes to-
night and tomorrow night, fol-
lowing the services.
All naval personnel of the
Jewish faith have been invited to
the services and the Sade1 Supper
ritual tables in the homes of t4fe
members of the congregations
families. Liberty for these ser
vices has been granted the Jewish
personnel through the request OF
Rabbi Schwartz.
Yiskor Memorial Services will
be held Saturday morning, April
% in the synagogue, the last day
Of Passover.
Passover is known by s:veral
names in the Bible, Chag ffa
Peesech, Chag Ha Nation and
Chag Ho-AviV," says r bbi
Schwartz.
''Chag Ha Pessech the E,stival
of Passover refers to the last OF
the ten plaques in Egypt, when
the Angel of the. Lord spared the
homes of the Israelites by Passing
over them, but Snlote the first
born in every Egyptian home. 1t
is called Chag Ha Matzoths and
it is called Chag Ho Aviv The
spring festival because it also
celebrates the beginning of the
barley harvest.
"All these names derive from
the one primary. event which
moulded, shaped and cofored the
destiny of the Jewish people,
namely the wonderful liberation
from Egyptian bondage. It's CLASH
fication as a spring festival signi-
fies not alone the season of the
year when it occurs. II also points
to the stage in Jewish history
when this event occurred. For
Passover recalls the springtirne of
our peoples life, its budding
period, when our people took
the first steps upon the arena of
this Israel which came into be-
ing.
'To begin with, Israelites were
only a group of slaves united by
dim memories of a distant past.
That this army of slaves was
transformed into nation can be
accounted for only by accepting
the Biblical thesis that the Holy
One interviewed. And he did so
because these tribes were 10 play
prominent role in the unfolding
history of mankind, to bear aloft
the torch of religion of ethical
monotheism. No wonder then that
the story of the departure OF
Egypt was adopted as a loving
refrain in the Jewish Ritual. II
kept alive a sense of mission in
the heart of a Jew and provided
for his trials and tribalations.
Passover also has a fresh
meaning for the jew, and all
living in these days of destiny"
continues Rabbi Schwartz. The
prayer which forms the climax oil
Sader, the prayer that we pray
for peace is about to be trans
lated into the reality of a long
lasting, long-existing peaceful
Jewish state. In their struggle tC
overcome the looming obstacles
at this turning point in history
the Jewish people will draw new
inspiratian. fTuGh the festival.
4 Jews living IN free lands, par.
ticularly thoseswho enjoy the pro,
lection of the Stars and Stripes
VIII again realize on This Pass:
over festival that freedom means
not only freedom from toll and
economic bondage, bat freedom
from political and social discrim.
ination.
There must also be a freedom
to live in keeping with the high
principles of the Jewish tradition
The ultimate test OF a free per.
son is whether he is liberated
from the shackles of materialisn
and lives in obedience to the die.
tates of religion"
Rabbi Schwartz tells his con-
gregation, "A very big lesson Of
inspiration for all people of free
dom loving peoples can be learn
ed from the Passover story. That
tyranny and dictatorship must
come to an end sooner or later, il
people of the world would only
realize that there is a leader
superior above all humanity that
has the main word and say ovei
every thing. We should not rely
upon the help of the atom bomb
alone or upon our own strength
and power of fierce, bat should &C
more to God in prayer as did the
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