Show I fE ST or Of PASSOVER V ll 8 BE KEPT RELIGIOUSLY Observance in Commemoration Commemoration ration of Exodus From FromI I Egypt Begins Sunday I I ti I I i 1 H i On th the fourteenth day dav of 1 t the Ike he first month mouth at even is the Lord s 's passover passo crAnd cr And nd on the fifteen day of the tue same month is the feast of I. I unleavened bread unto the Lord Seven days ays yo ye e must eat unleavened bread Leviticus chapter verses 5 and 6 t H I H I H The Jewish passover celebration one of the most sacred sawed and interesting fes' fes on the calendar of tho the Jewish religious us year will begin next Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day evening April 23 at sundown rho Tho meaning of tho the event and the significance of the various services am and customs observed ed by the yi JC Jewish h people in m its celebration as explained by Rabbi Charles J. J Freund to THE TEL TEL- makes of it an 1111 occasion well worthy of tho the impressiveness and sincerity sin sin- c rity with which it is regarded by those of the faith As stated the tho celebration of the passover passover pass pass- over oer begins at sUD sundown on next Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day which marks the full moon of the first month of the tho Jewish religious year By the liberal branch of the church the festival will bo be con con- tinned for seven days while those oi of the ho orthodox bran branch b will for eight full days The Tho beginning beg of tho the passover is coincident with the first full ful fullmoon noon moon after the vernal venial equinox so that thai it is also a sort of spring festival celebrating cel eel the tho awakening of nature from its ts winters winter's sleep Ordinarily the event comes conies before tho the Easter week of the tho Protestant churches but this year which according to the Jewish calendar is leap year there bein being seven such suchy y years ars in each cycle of nineteen years the he celebration is late late late-as as late in fact as it over can come The first day o otho olho ol 01 ho tho passover and Easter Sunday fall fallon fallon on the same day once in in every years This was the case last year so that that hat such ti il coincidence will not occur aga again for four centuries Exodus Prom From Egypt The passover festival commemorates the he exodus of the tho children of Israel Israe from Egypt and the deliverance of the Israelites from Egyptian bon bondage age During Dur During in ing the week of its celebration those thos who observe the feast must partake of oJ no food or beverages of a leavened leavene na na- ture this ure this mandate being according to tho ho scriptures as aro are all in fact of the practices indulged ed in durin during the ccle- ccle bration ration On the first evenin evening of th the festival tho the Seder Sedor service is ob observed served in the Jewish homes The fain fam family ly thy is gathered at the table which bears ho tho symbols which arc are an adjunct to the he festival and there is told in song and prayer the tho Hagg-adah Hagg or story tory of the exodus This story is told by jy the tho father to the children who ask aska a series of prescribed questions regard regard- leg inA ng its meaning meaning- tho answers bein being illustrated il- il by reference to the tIle symbols which are placed for that purpose These symbols consist o ot oS a roast of lamb to designate the pascal bone tho the unleavened bread bitter herbs indica indica- tive i of the life ife of a a. slave unfermented wine and an egg symbolical of the resurrection There Thero is also placed at athe atthe atthe the he table the tho cup of Elijah which is s reserved for the welcome stranger Eat Unleavened Bread On tho the first evening eninA of the passover in u the homes in in which tl this is service ii is observed tho those c partaking of the service are ro obliged ld to eat cat of the unleavened read bread and to drink four cups of the wine After tho the first evening even even- ing lag tho the e eating ting of the tIle unleavened bread breads is s not obligatory torr thou though h nothing of a n. leavened nature either food or drink must pass the lips during the period o of 01 celebration In the orthodox homes this lis Seder S 'S der service servie is is often repeated on n the second ovenin evening Following the theSe Se Seder Seder er service l and nod the regular eular meal the he evening is spent in tho the singing OJ of special songs the songs the s-the tho Passover Mel Melodies Melo Melo- dies ics The first regular synagogue ue ser ocr vices ices during the passover will be bo held at til Ii 1 0 o'clock Sunday mornin morning The passover fest festival i val celebration is sometimes called tIle the festival of unleavened unleavened un un- leavened bread this food being significant sig sig- because the Israelites were forced to leave in great Areat basto hasto an and hadnot had had hadnot not ot time to wait until the brea bread had become be be- come ome leavened The rhe orthodox Jews Jows remove re re- move ovo every evry leavened thing from their homes omes prior r to t the he festival though in inthis inthis in this lis practice as in other features of the thic church lurch celebrations the tho members of the thic liberal beral branch of the tho faith arc are less strict The Tho unleavened bread is known as s matzoth The Tho Tho Seder service is is significant to Christians because it was in in this service ec that lat Christ was enraged engaged when he lie was apprehended and it if i was while observing in ing ig this service also that he was catinA cating cat cat- ing inA ng his llis last supper |