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Show JEWS TO CELEBRATE mxm FEJST Rabbi Freund Will Speak Wednesday Evening on "The Jew as Farmer." Services at Tomplo B'nai Israel on Wednesday Wed-nesday evening, preliminary to observance of the feast of tabernacles, will begin at S o'clock. Itabhl tthurlcs .r. Freund will .iuk on "The Jew ;ih Fanner.'' Tho fcasl of talinmacIcK Is to ho celebrated cele-brated by tho Jewish community on September Sep-tember It Is called In Hebrew "Succoth" and fa Ha uj)on the J 5th of Tlshrl in Iho Hebrew He-brew eiilntuifir, jitxl lasts right da vs. The eighth day is called "Tho Day of Solemn Assembly." i This fr-nst is ordained In Exodus NNIII.. C: XXXIV., U2. v.hero It la culled "Tho te-ist of Ingathering." and In LtVitk-U3 XXIII., JU and Dent. XV. Tlie lsnillto who. in obedience to tho I divlno command, left his house for the ! week of the foatlval. and took up his abode In a booth or tabernacle, and lived through ns it were, an important epoch of., his people's history, thereby repltm-ished repltm-ished the springs of Jowlsh sentiment. Ho was nlso. thereby taught to remember that Just as Israel In tho wilderness waa protected pro-tected by Cod, so J a he being guarded in his earthly pilgrimage. God's love is evor with his children like a protecting cloud. Tho second name of the fostlval, the Foast of Ingathering, almost explains Itself. It-self. The holiday comeH In the autumn, at a time when the huHbandman in Palls-tlno Palls-tlno had safely garnered tho produce of his lands. It was the timn of thinking of God a.s the giver. And so tho lesson .of gratitude for the blessings ho had received re-ceived and of responsibility for the right to use of them was each year written upon his heart. |