Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-04-08 | Page 10 | Jews Celebrate Independence Day of Israelites

I I JEWS CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY DM OF oi THE I Passion assion Ceremonies P Par Par- ar- ar taRe taKe Largely of Nature of Family Functions The feast of or the Passover r will wi begin next Wednesday At 6 o'clock that evening even even- Ing special services will wi bo be held hell In the tho Temple Israel In this el city The Passover or Pe Pesach ach IH ix tiC the lie seven cn days days' festival al observed cd b by the Je Jew Inthe in inthe the tIme car early spring In commemoration of the exodus from B Egypt In ancient Jewish life It was QS tho lie first frt of ot the three pilgrim festivals upon which every cry male Jew was required to present himself In person per per- son soil at the central sanctuary In Jeru Jeru- salem solem Although tho the Passover Passer has c certain features tea fea tures In common with wih the universal spring festival festIs-al fRt al It Is It Its I historical significance cance which gives eR It Jt lasting l vitality lt It ItIs ItIs I Is tho the great Independence da day clay of the tho Jew the first event In lila his national history his hl- tor tory an event which became fundamental fundamental fundamental funda funda- mental In iii all al his thinking too as ns evidenced evi l by the frequent reference teel to the great deliverance The festival festl al Is hI ushered In by b- ba a ram family I I service called caled tho the Seder at which certain certain tam tain symbolic ceremonials are observed ed Each Ench participant participant and and and the lowliest Is Ig privileged cd to sIt nit It at th the table that nl night night- ht- ht Is required to drink four our cups of or wine In memory of ot tho the four promises made mad h by bythe bythe the Eternal to redeem Israel from bond bond- age On the table are tho the unleavened cakes cake matzos tho lie shin bono bone of a a. l Iamb roasted on the coals commemorative of or the Pos Paschal hal sacrifice a roasted e egg J a mixture of or apples and nuts to symbolize the mortar with Ith which the lie Egyptians made mado bitter the lives of the tho fathers and bitter biter herbs J e re reminiscent re re- of or the unhappy days das In Egypt In song and story tho the talc tale of the oppression oppression op op- op- op and tho deliverance del elance Is If rehearsed Psalms Palms of thanksgiving haileD strike the keynote of the tho happy occasion The services Interrupted forr forthe tho family dinner din din- nero ner co close o with a number of met merry folk nIh fal songs S. S expressive of or the tho character of ot the celebration During tho the festival unleavened ened bread brear Is eaten caten Instead of the usual IC leaven ICen en I In Iii orthodox homes great care Is taken that tha all al traces be removed before th the beginning of the Sots Sets o ot a. dishes otherwise unused are arc pt provided vices Set are held In the an and ant sermons preached In keeping with wih th the thoughts thoughts' of or the tho to festival I from fron rom or or In some cases case the tIme whole holo of or the boot boo of the Son Song of Son Songs s are arc read