Show JEWS CELEBRATE IMPORTANT FEASTS a October will b be he a day of ot great significance to 0 all orthodox Jew Jews I Cor for on on that day the feast of Torah will be observed ed This feast Is In commemoration of ot the delivery of ot c th the ten commandments to Moses by the hand I of God S Services will be held In the Jewish I rna SYnagogue ue Thursday evening followed by bya a doctrinal sermon b by Rabbi R hey hey- y- y Last Thur Thursday day the feast of ot h I e or J harvest har festival was observed ed wIth r relIgious fervor enor b by the orthodox Jews Jew o ot the fhe world In all places where there thero I 1 a Ii large larKe Jewish population the har- har vm tit festival lasts three days day but In B Salt lt Lake It was observed only one flay day On this holy hob day ds- every ery good Jew th the I world orld over o gives fervent thanks for tor the blessings he has enjoyed during the last Year About this da day there Is a n liar lar Significance of which the adherents o or of other religions have little knowledge v I and no da day In the Hebrew calendar la is lamore ismore more mor zealously I ob observed than this on one on Th The celebration of or Succoth Is a general general gen gen- cn- cn eral ral thanksgiving for a bountiful har bar vest It denotes a tenet of or the faith as old oid as the religion It itself I el So In all orthe of or the synagogues In the world the day of oC ot thank thanksgiving was as as religiously observed ob oh- served as it wa was many hundred years ears earsa a ago o In ancient Pae Palestine The Initial service continued for three hours without Interruption Every de devout devout dp- dp vout out Jew repaired to his temple and at sunset began his chanting prayer In one hand he be held a branch of ot a Q palm that grows only In the Ho Holy Land Inthe Inthe In Inthe the other a like lemon fruit which Is a Q symbol moo of or p plenty nt With his hand handt ral raised and head bowed he gave save thanks for tor all bussing blessings At the close of or this religious ceremony cere cere- mon many mony er e every one of or the faith goes home and holds holdo a a. f feast teut ast But at sunrise a again on the following day they all alJ go again to the temple and the thanksgiving chant Is III continued As I sunset of or the thc second e ond do day Approaches pr the religious ceremony Is ill repeated and that closes I the harvest thanksgiving The records of the Jewish faith show how that this peculiar rite was generally observed d as ear early as 2300 years ago Its celebration is In accordance with the th laws of or Moses Between the ceremony eremon of or the earl early days dag and that of or today there Is IR little If an any difference But Du t there wa was wag a lapse of or th the rite at the time of oC the Babylonian Imn Invasion lon of or Palestine It was near nearly 2300 years ago that these invaders laid ald alda a waste te the land landof of or the children of oC Israel They carried their war of oC devastation to the gates of or Jerusalem anti and then entering the hot holy cit city the they destroyed the first Jew ish t temple mple Fin Fifty years ears afterward the he second temple temple tem tern pIe was waR as built Four hundred and fifty years rs later this second temple was w torn down b by a n. faction In the Jewish faith That marked an epoch In the religion The temple proper was never ne rebuilt and the of or high priest t In Inthe Inthe Inthe the church was was' abolished From that time to the present prep day the head of oC the church Is known a as the chief rabbi To 10 him the Jews all over the world orld do proper homage It Is the chief rabbi who supplies the palm pom branches and holy fruit that Is used In the celebration of or Suc Succoth oth |