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Show JEWS CELEISAIE EARLY HARVEST IN, "ffASI OF WEEKS" Relifoas Exercises and Confirmation Are, Parts of Festival. At th aenkrea for th Feaat of Weess. at Tempts B'nal Israel, next Thursdar nlfht at U o'clock, th theme of Rabbi C. J. Freund s discourse wMI be "Liberty Throu-h Ijiw." Conftrmatibn exercises, which usually are held i-loae to thia data, will be held the foltowlna Sunday morn Ins at JO:So o cUxk, 'when the following program will be rendered: Welcome .. The Rabbi Opening prayer ,r..Iehe1a Hamuels Floral onrin(f (Sertrude rkaten Song, "Oh, Heavenly Father". . . .Gounod Mrs. Corlnne Harrie'Hajnmer. Sianlflcance of the day. . Beatrice' Meltxer Song, "Ob. Lxv IHvlne"..,. Nevln Robert H. Slddnway. Bar M'tsvah Milton Frumkfn Conftrmaifon Elsa Wolff "Prayer Before the Ark". .Laurence Ctlne The Tn Command mrta Crowning of the scroll.. .Herbert Ievfsnn Song. "Hold Thou My Hang . . .Brlggs iMlis Edna Dwyr. Address to parent Knehces Da via Song. "The Better Iand" Co wen Charlee hnt. " Address. Rabbi Charles J. Freund I Hnna Valedictory Norrts Boehmsr I Cloaing prayer , Kate Klein Tfw etas consiata rf Tforrts Behmer, laaiurenre Ctlne. Frances Davla. Uertrude Kckaieln, Milton Frumkln. Kste Klein, Herbert Levtsnn. Beatrice Me User, La-heln La-heln Samuel and Elsa Wolff. - . Jewish 'ntcoat.'v . Hhebuojh (the Feast of Weeks) Is so called bcauae It is- celebrated seven weeks after the second day of the Peas-over Peas-over festival. It Is sometimes called the Pentecoat;. as It falls on the "fiftieth" day after the above mentlonededate. The days between the two festivals are ceremonially cere-monially counted (Onier). and are ob-1 served by the .more orthodox as a season of abstinence, no meniagea being contracted con-tracted In that season. Shebuoth is the festival of the 'first fruits, the early harvest festival. la the ancient temp), a sheaf of barley waa presented at the altar, together with other sacrifice. The day ha been associated asso-ciated In Jewish tradition with tbe Sinai tic revelation. It 1 In this character char-acter that tt ha been selected by the modem reform synasjog for the annual confirmation day. It shares the joyous character of the other pilartra festivals. It Is only obaerved one day (orthodox custom add a second). It Is regarded as the corner stone of the Jewish faith. I the memorial of the giving of the ten j words. The harvest character of the day Is preserved In the floral offering brought by the eooflrmants also byreadlnsrs from the book of Ruth, the idvl of the eerry aarleultural life of the jew. Its deeper alfmlflcanc la emphaalsed by the solema confirmation of the adolescent boys and girls. |