PAGE FOUR &Demos; /Ewlmi OEM ICLE ROSH HA-SHANAH IN LITERATURE AND LEGEND A Happy New Year By DR. S. N. DEINARD Brede & Schroeter DECORATORS Specialists in correct decoration and home furnishings. Our staff, compe- tent through talent and experience, Brill talk over your problems with you and furnish estimates. 80 W. Canfield Glendale 8501 Highland Park Creamery Co. (INCORPORATED) 13739 Woodward Avenue te. Milk, Cream Buttermilk BUTTER AND COTTAGE CHEESE No Jewish institution has under- gone a greater change during the period extending between the close of the Old Testament canon and the compilation of the Mishnah than our New Year's Day, Rosh Ha-Shanah. In the Mosaic law the day celebrated as Rosh Ila.Shanah is designated as the first day of the seventh month, and is to be celebrated by the char- acteristic act of the blowing of the ram's horn. The first day of every month was to be celebrated as a holy day. The reason for the greater con- secration of the seventh month, which bears the special designation of "Yom Truloh," the Day of the Sound_ ing of the Trumpet, or "Zichron Tru- loh," the Memorial of the Sounding of the Trumpet probably is that on the tenth of the month is the most sacred day of Yom Kippurim, and on the fifteenth to twenty-second days the feasts of Succoth and Atsereth, the oldest and must gladsome feasts of the Biblical calendar. The Mo- saic law also provides that every fif- tieth year, on the tenth of the seventh month (Tishri), the year of Jubilee is to he proclaimed through. out the land by the sounding of the ram's horn. That probably was the original meaning of the blowing of the horn 011 Rosh Ila-Shanah, a memorial, either to remind the people of the approach of the other sacred days in the same month or by analogy of the blowing of the trumpets on occasion of war, to be remembered before the Lord your God" (Num. 10:9). Additional significance was given the day by two important events re- corded in the Bible. The returned exiles under Zerubbenel began the sacrificial service on the restored al- tar of Jerusalem on the first of the seventh month. That is all the significance that at- taches to Rosh Ila-Shanah, as far as our Biblical sources are concerned. It is, therefore, a far cry from this character assigned to it in the Bible to the statement of the Mishnah (about the close of the second cen- tury of our era): There are four New Year's Days . . . the first of Tishri is New Year's Day of the civil year, etc.;" and further on: "The world is judged at four different sea. sons of the year . . . on New Year's Day all human beings pass before Him like the sheep of the fold." How to explain this remarkable develop- ment in the character of the day is one of the puzzles of Jewish archae- ology. The opinion of the Mishnah re- garding this day is the one that has prevailed in the synagogue, and in Jewish life. Rosh Ila-Shanah, togeth- er with torn Kippur, are the two holiest (lays in the Jewish calendar. In the Jewish home and in Jewish life its aspect as New Year's Day stands out very prominently, while in the synagogue ritual its character as Day of Divine Judgment is empha- sized. All the customs observed on this day bear on this its two-fold character. Beginning with the first day of the week in which Rosh Ha- Shanah occurs, special supplications for forgiveness (Seler loth) are of- fered up in the synagogues early in BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPPY NEW YEAR itk r Jacob Roth FOR QUALITY AND SERVICE Metal the morning before the regular pray- ers. On Rosh IIa-Shanah afternoon the ceremony of Tashlich (of late mediaeval origin) is carried out, the symbolic shaking off and casting away of the sins into a body of flow- ing water. At home fruits and sweets, and other viands of symbolic value, are eaten on Rosh Ila-Shanah expressive of the wish for a sweet and happy year. Nuts are not to be eaten, for two numerical value of the Ilebrew word meaning "nut" is equivalent to the numerical value of the Hebrew word that stands for "sin." The cus- tomary greeting exchanged on this day is "L'ithonoh tovoh tikkosliv"— May you be inscribed for a good year." The celestial program for thin day, as elaborated in the exuberant fancy of the Talmudic rabbis, is very awe inspiring. Says one rabbi: "There books are open (in the heavens) on Rosh Ha-Sheilah, one for the perfect- ly righteous, one for the utterly wick- ed, and one for all those who belong to neither class. The perfectly righteous are at once entered in the Book of Life; the wicked are imme- diately inscribed in the Book of Death; while the judgment of the others is suspended until the Day of Atonement, when, according to their merit, or lack of it, they are record- ed with a sentence of either life or death. A sentence of death, or the punshrnent, may be averted by re- pentance, prayer and charity. Hence the 10 days from Rosh HaShanah to Yom Kipper are known as the 10 days of penitence. To enhance the importance of Rosh 11a-Shanah, the following legendry statements are given currency by the rabbis: "On the first of Tishri the universe was created; on the first of Tishri Adam was created, and on that (lay, too, he ate of the forbidden fruit, hence the character of the day as a day of judgment. In Tishri Ab- raham and Jacob were born, and on the first of Tishri Sarah, Rachel and Hannah, three barren women, were blessed with child." FEIGELE (A Sketch.) By BERTHA WIERNIK Feigele's twelve - year - old mind worked hard. Her childish imagine- tion shaped and painted Akiba, the ' neglected youth, and the Gehenna. I Then she cried out: "Father, I am sure your soul will never go to the Gehenna; I could swear by my life that you never did a wrong, never, never!" Leaning back in his chair, with his eyes fixed on the floor, Nochum said gravely: the all sin at some time or other. No man leaves the world as sinless as he came into it. I am nearing the end of the story and there are two facts I want you to bear in mind for always: That the daughter where there is no son may say the Kaddish, and that the Kaddish period lasts eleven months." It was still in the room; a solemn, , sacred stillness. Suddenly Nun-hunt drew Feigele to his breast, took her head between his hands and said: "Feigele, remember, where there is no son the daughter is to say the Kaddish. Now comes the minute I have been waiting for since I first be- held you in your mother's bed; now is the minute in which I am going to prepare you for the keeping of a holy oath. Swear, Feigele, swear, that af- ter I'll leave this world, you will say the Kaddish every day for eleven months no as to redeem my spirit from the Gehenna—will you swear?" For a minute not a sound broke the stillness. The eyes of the two nun tiled VSS ligui'vo gleamed like black stars in a gilt sky . . . The child-girl experienced a transformation—in that one minute she changed into a young woman; she comprehended the mean- ing of her father's request; she real- ized that there is life after death. "I swear, father, I swear," Feigele exclaimed. The words rang like the tolling of a silver bell. To Nochum they sounded like a message from the Great Beyond. A happy light kindled in his eyes and he spoke almost breathlessly: "I know you will not fail to keep your oth. I will educate you like Akiba educated the neglected son, and then, after I am dead, you will come among a worshipping as- sembly and say the Kaddish, and peo- ple will bless you, and they'll say: "'This is Feigele reciting the Kad- dish; her father left no sun behind him. Long life to her." And my soul will listen and will sing from joy. -- I will assign your first lesson tonight --memorize the Kaddish. Now say these words after me;--"Yitgaddal . • . . weyit Kaddish . . . " etc., etc. Feigele does nut remember whether she saw her .mother that night. It was twilight when she fell asleep. cAnniosiminwiemoos ■ 04sonsosinneoweimen ■ onosumosoilmotemteoteossin Season's Greetings : : from : The Palace Theater 130 Monroe Avenue The Best in Vaudeville and Pictures. Eight months ago Feigele's father died. Punctual to the hour, she enters every morning the nearby Shul where- in a large assembly is already wait- ing for the morning service to begin. "Sh! Ilene comes Feigole to say Kaddish." they whisper to one an- other as she approaches the lowest prayer-desk in the Shul. Soon the mournful sounds of her voice reach their ears. They listen attentively, shake their heads, and Feigele's tears mingle with their deep sighs. Many in the assembly stop to look after her tall, graceful figure as she slowly ad- rarities toward the exit of the Shut. "Lang leben sol sie," says one. "A guten mazel not sie hoben," re- marks another. "Der Can-Eden wart auf ihr," as- 1 sures a third. Billions of seconds are drifting in- visibly around the angelic figure of, the (orphan, tenderly shrouding and carrying away her sorrowful presence' in to the past She is beholding the morning of her life like the earth beholds the rising sun. It pleases Feigele to fancy that the sun is under oath to the earth never to leave her in darkness! It seems to her that her father's spirit it looking clown at her through the sun's rays—looking, and blessing her for keeping the Kad- dish oath!—(Jewish Woman's Home Journal.) A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL I The house which was until eight months ago the home of Nochum the Mediums), is situated on the side of the street nearest the synagogue. It has small shiny windows, and a narrow door admitting to a low, wind- ing staircase and to the rooms on the top floor. The most attractive thing about the house is the grassy spot i n front of the ground floor, guarded by a wooden fence. This adornment, in strange contrast with the surround- ing neighborhood, was once the sim- plest means by which Feigele, the only (laughter of Nochum, could show her love for nature. Today the green spot soothes her sad eyes and frequently inspires her imagination. When Feigele, now in her twentieth year, looks buck over her past life, a certain (lay and hour glides out of the darkness and stands out with moon- light brightness against the dusky background of her child-life. How well she remembers a little scene painted S on her memory in indelible colors. She can see it so vividly—evening; th e little parlor, bright and warm; out- S side the snow falling, a soft white 004 shower. Her mother and her aunt had gone to theater, though grumb- ling and protesting against the weath- er, while ()Ober and Feigele had been left to amuse each other, Nochum proud of being left in charge of his 104 little daughter. She sat huddled up on a low chair, her father fondling her brown locks. "Father," she exclaimed suddenly, By MARK TWAIN "when I grow up I mean to be a man. Mother says that a man can do great "The Jew is not a disturber of the things.' PC:=-4 A faint smile passed over her fath- peace in any country. Even his ene- mies will concede that. Ile is not a er's face, then he replied: "A girl cannot become a man," and loafer, he is not 11 sot, he is not noisy, it seemed to her that fur an instant he is not a brawler, nor a rioter, he is his face darkened. She stretched out net quarrelsome. In the statistics of crime his presence is conspicuously her little hand to him and asked: "Then— then are you sorry because rani, in all countries. With murder .0.1 .0■ 04.0.1.00.1.0...0.1.04 ■0■04■0■0■ 0.am 5 I am a girl?" Her father held her and other crimes of violence he has -light fingers and she thought his but little to (10; he is a stranger to the 6 1 0.1 ■ 11,‘ M\ 111 0■1 4 1 1 N OW I 1 1 0 1. \\ W IM110 1 I • Ik\ IIMW M411 hangman. In the police court's daily niowth trembled as he answeresl: "Once I regretted it, but now I long roll of assaults and drunks and disorderlirs, his name seldom appears. love you more than life. I am happy when )i.ou are near me, my little, little That the Jewish home is a home, in I Fei•ilii," and he kissed her on the the truest sense, is fact which no forehead. oar will dispute. The family is knit- knit- % "I wish I could do something for ted together by the strongest litre:- r you the way a boy would—if you lions, its members show each other r i had one," Freigele said after a short every due respect, and reverence for , pause,..atal staid up. Everything was the elders is an inviolate law of the quiet for a minute, them NO011.101 drew house. The Jew is not a burden on the/ her tenderly to his Juices, passed his charities of the State, nor of the city; , hand over her floating hair and said: Illesti could cease from their functions 0 r "There is one thing you could, do, without affecting him. When he is 1 0 well enough, he works; when he is A and in it at once, i00. " incapacitated, his own people take Her ht autiful eyes were lifted to- ward hint and with sonie sudden im- care of him. And net in a poor and Ionise sF.e t •tiched with her soft lips stingy way, but with a fine and large I t hand he had place tin her shoul- henei.tolentie. His race is entitled to ier. "Wl at, farther--what is the thing he called the must benevolent of all I could do?" the races of men. A Jewish beggar' "I want you to memorize a short is not impossible, perhaps such as thing story which I am gluing to tell You may exist, but there are few men that ig right away. Anti later in years, per- can say they have stain that specta• • / haps in !ninths, when you will grasp tile. The Jew has been staged in many the inner meaning .d the story—I uncomplimentary forms, but so far as .0 want you to use it as a guide for a I know, no dramatist has done him certain service which you will be the injustice to stage him as a beg- bound to do me—it is the moral serv- gar. Whenever a Jew has real TINA ice that all Jewish sons owe 1, par- to beg, his people save him from the A ents." necessity of doing it. The tharitable She threw her arms round his neck, institutions of the JeWs are supported g and whispered: "I am listening, fath- by Jewish money, and amply. The er." Nochum began: Jews make no noise about it; it is 0 , they do net nag and pi, "Many years ago there lived a great dune uietly; Jewish 1`, 111,11t ir whose name was Aki- ter and harass us for contributions; low. Ile experience d ninny sorrows in they give us pen, e, and set us an ex- his life, but through all his sufferings ample which we have not found our- ; he remained kind and just toward ev- selves able to follow. " ery man he met, and consoled the NV .1 pel pie as well as the virtuous YOUR HANDS ones. Once Media met a spirit in the guise of a man carrying wood; the , bitter t dd Akita that the wita d was By SAMUEL IMBER for the in Lehr nna in which he was burned, daily in punishment for Tranalated by Marie Syrkin. hi , iniZ been cruel t , the p nor, an% --- at he would be released front hi s Child, the music of y our hands a vful t !lure if he had a son to !T- I would hear, soft-playing; ie•do the Kaddish—a reedtation to The still mars io of your hands wihich is ascribed the power of re- On my hot brow straying. deeming the dead from the suffering if Gehenna, and which is recited be- The still goodness of y cur hands, fore a worshipping assembly that re- Child, I would be feeling; p lids with the praise of God's name. The still goodness of your hands, N iiv Akil a learned that the man he All nip anguish healing. met had utterly neglected his son. 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