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Show vROSHIMfl RITES TO OPEN feSEPip: Salt take Jews Prepare for New Year's ; Celebration ., Tha ceremonials attendant upon tha Jewlah New Tear, which begin - In every aynogogue and temple throughout tha world en Monday evening. September 10, win be ob-eerved ob-eerved by tha Jewlah reaidente of Salt Lake with aolemn rltea according accord-ing . to bnnouncement by Adolph Sterner, rabbi of Temple B'Nal Israel. The eeremonlee of tha "Roah l ' , Haahanah" will cloaa at aunaet i Tueaday, September 11. I Rabbi Btelner aald that aarrlraa Jwlll ba held at t o'clock Monday f evening, September 10 and 10 o'clock ' Tueaday morning, September 11, at tha temple B'Nal Israel. Fourth Eaet and Second South streets. Dr. Stel-ner'e Stel-ner'e aermon topic for Monday will be "What Doea New Tear Mean to l i at TMi Day and Age. and on Tueaday. "How Can We Have Our Wlahea Fulfilled V P-ah Halhsnsh la lierrlhrl f followa: . L "Roah Haahanah regtatara - tha profoundeat convlctlono of tha Jew-lsh Jew-lsh people. Together with the day I of atonement which occure tan daya ' later It haa alwaya had a unique bold oa tha Jewlah people tha world over. . TIME FOR MORAL LESSON. "Blblral erholara maintain It waa Instituted after tha time of Exra at leaat four hundred yeare before the common era. It la natural to aup- poaa that throughout tha agea tha holy day underwent cetala rhangea aa to Interpretation and mode of observance. At no other time however, how-ever, did It reeemble tha celebration which oehere an tha eaeular new year. According to the Jewlah teachera. New Tear waa an excellent payehologlcai moment to Inculcate a moral leeaon and remind men and women of their obligation to Ood and man. . v- "Tha Blblral baata for tha New Tear la found In Lavltlcua tX:!4 where It la aald: 'In tha aeventh month, in tha flrat day of tba . month, ahall be a aolemn rant Unto you, a memorial poclalmed with tha blaet of horna, a holy convocation.' "Thera are avldencea that Babylonian Baby-lonian rltea did at one time prevail In the celebration of tha New Tear. But the leadera of Jewish thought In ancient and modem tlmea counteracted coun-teracted them and eought to make the flrat day of tha Hebrew month Tftihrl a day of divine Judgment. -Thl daea not mean a day of fire and brimstone and tha rod of chaa-, chaa-, tlaement. Purging tha day of hllar-ilous hllar-ilous rltea, a pagan euetom, the J leadera traaefortned It lntoan occa-w occa-w alon for high reaolva and alncara pelf-aearchlng. REPENTANCE EMPHASIZED. "Tha symbolism of tha day waa used with great off eetlveneea . In driving ome tha moral leaeoa of repentance. re-pentance. The sounding of tha ram'a horn (Hhofar) waa to remind tha congregation to repent of their alns and to Improve their waya that they might rise on atepplng atonea of V their dead aalvea to higher things and worthier alma "Tha Shofar blasts ware Intended to aigntfy three dominant Ideals of tha religion of larael. Three blasts proclaimed the fact that Ood la King all over the earth, -thae He la Judge of man'a deeoa and thoughts and that Ha tg Ruler who ' proves throughout tha agea that rlghteoueneee and Justice are ultlr mately triumphant. "Tha New Teaf a day la therefore there-fore a sort of Judgment day. According Ac-cording to Judaism. Judgment Day la not held after man baa departed thla world. Such decisions would ba of no value In influencing eonduct. But on the contrary Judgment Day takea-placa annually In thla Ufa in order to make man the better prepared pre-pared for eervlce to humanity. "Legend would have It that thla la tha MMth year el nee the world haa been created. Tbia fiction la no longer seriously entertained. Tha medieval custom of going to a river or any body of water to cast one's sine Into tha deptha of tho aaa la likewise obsolescent and only halfheartedly half-heartedly carried out. On Roah Haahanah greetlnga are exchanged raonir. friend and k!ndrl and houho1d ties r knit firmer. Nw Year cards ars mailed to friends and relations. and often, telegrams art sent by dear ones to their kindred kin-dred conveying; best wlahea and hopes for a year of health, happiness happi-ness and worthiness.' |