Show NEW NE IS WITH HIS flOCK Rabbi Joseph Hevesh Takes Charge of Congregation CongregationS S Montefiore lore IS WELCOMED BY MANY THE DUTiES OF RABBI AND FUNCTIONS FUNCTIONS FUNCTIONS OF SYNAGOGUE Rabbi Joseph Hevesh who came from the east a few days daya ago to take tate charge of ot the Jewish Congregation Congre atlon M at nt No Sao J 3 D South Third East street met the members of his hils for tor the first time Sunday afternoon at an in informal informal informal formal gathering which took place ai al althe a athe the synagogue when a welcome was wall ex extended extended extended tended to the tha new head of the congre congregation Congregation congregation gation The synagogue was Wail well filled when the exercises e were opened shorty after aCter 5 3 by President S Spiro of the con congregation congregation After the formal opening of t f the tin program G M Lewis LaMS L wi on 01 ot the te congregation made a e brief address a s in which he referred to o the tiie importance of ul the event to the Congregation Monte Montefiore flore fiore He referred briefly to the work which had bad been accomplished in the paSt pact by the congregation and expressed the hope that even more might Wight be done un under under under der the direction of the new rabbi who had come to take charge of or the affairs of the Rabbi Charles J Freund of the Temple Brat Israel of this city was next intro introduced introduced Introduced and amI made a brief address of wel welcome welcome welcome come on behalf of that congregation co and the adherents of Judaism in general He lie said the Congregation Montefiore was to tobe tobe tobe be felicitated on obtaining the services of Rabbi Hevesh h who is i a man of letters and of high education Wants His Peoples Aid Ald Rabbi Freund said that a new rabbi most needed the material and moral aid of his people using u as u an illustration the manner menner In which the hands of Moses MOlle were uplifted in the days of Israel He Ho said Rid some som sacrifices of a material tDa character might be necessary ary at times but said the history of oC the adherents of oC Judaism had been one of sacrifice from the first At the close of his remarks Rabbi Freund formally presented Rabbi Hevesh to the members of his congregation and the new rabbi made a brief address addess in when he be took as u a topic The Functions of the Synagogue and the Duties of the Rabbi saying that he be would attempt to toIve give Ive a crude outline of oC the duties of the rabbi as he saw them Rabbi Hevesh said Rid it was the place of the rabbi to act as a In bringing together the tho past and the tM present presen pr ent the things thine of ancient times con conform conform conform form to present day conditions He Ht called attention to the fact fael that the rabbi was wal supposed to be a So teacher to the tho youthful members of o his hill Hock flock instructing them in inthe Inthe inthe the history and meaning of Judaism Judal m He referred to the fact that the basement of the synagogue structure contained rooms room for other than the toe main religious reli u pur put purposes poses po es of the church among these being a schol for the teaching of the young School Is Necessary It is not mere coincidence said the speaker that the synagogue ia is built upon the school below for without the school and the instruction which it imparts to the coming corning generation the synagogue could not exist exial The speaker also called attention to the place which the home borne occupies in the con conduct conduct duct of the work of the congregation and this was wu mentioned as one of the rabbis spheres of work He said eaid that the mothers mother of or Israel could get some of their best belt Inspiration from the synagogue and its Ita services At the don cloa of the remarks of the new rabbi thos present took the opportunity of him personally to the city |