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SOME OLD HOMILIES FOR
ROSH HA-SHANAH

the breast of every man. The firemen
can not extinguish the flames with
words, they have to apply the appara-
' tus and throw water on the burning
mass. Thus, must Israel apply the
apparatus of his tears to wash off
By DR. R. FARBER
the sins from his shameless face, when
he conies before his Maker on Rosh
The custom of explaining scriptur- the Harahan greater opportunities to Ha-Shanah and cool his passions by
al passages in homiletical form is strike with his eloquence and similes. their downfluw to such an extent that
deep into the heart, and even touch the whole fire ofthe Satan, the Yetzer
quite an old institution in Israel. It
the Jewish soul. It was always Ilarah shall become vanquished.
it attributed to Moses, who inaugur-
s cus- This was the method of the old Mag-
ated that the law should ho expounded tom to address the congrgeation be- , idim; their rhetoric was undoubtedly
fore
the
sounding
of
the
Shofar
began,
not so polished and finished as the dic-
to the people in open assemblies, be
t i i.. e modern discourse; they did
interpreted to them so that each shall and, as the Shofar and the tunes pro- lion
r:ths
with words and juggle
i
he familiar with the mode of Miser- dosed with it were considered of vi- n,u h ii,es; they spoke to the Jewish
van.. Of each and every festival, and tal importance in the service on thatiliiia, and knew how to touch it. It
not to violate the laws enjoined. Fes- day as symbols and symbolizing is after all the heart and the soul
T1,eii.is
hicA
h 1 iii,i it g
i shtt,he brought
tivals, with which observance many omens, it was not infrequent that the which
a sentiment
ceremonials were connected, required Harahan, or whosoever addr
e
ssed the'
greater elaboration, and, therefore, congregation, drew comparisons to , in religion which must be roused, and
these old Darshanim understood ho w
those portions in the Bible which nar-
rate the historical events which lead elucidate its important meaning. A to touch the heartstrings of their
up to the festival and detailed its ob- striking piece of homiletical ingenu- hearers and rouse them to aetion acid
ei
servance have been dwelled upon to a ity was attached to the verse from the to dned ''
greater extent than the others with
which there was not so much ceremon- fourth and lift verses of the Enghty-
ials and ritualistic observance connec- first Psalm which has been made the
ted. This fact any one acquainted keynote to express the significative of
with the Halacha of the Talmud and the day. Shofar and Mishpat were
By MIRIAM ZITAH
the Ila!chic Midrashim well knows and
need not be retold in this place. Rosh used, both indicative of the solemnity

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Ha-Shanah and Yom Kippur were not
festivals in the same sense that this
appelation is given to the other days
observed. The former has its desig-
nation in the Pentateuch as a special
day, as a "memorial of blowing the
trumpet" and a holy convocation, and
the rabbis, from times almost immem-
orial, interpreted this term "Memor-
ial" in a great many ways and
stretched their imagination, and gave
it great elasticity. The adoption of the
pericopal reading for both days was
already based on suggestion to give
the imagination full scope for exAr-
slops into domains from which
thoughts could be coupled with the
idea of seriousness with which the ob-
servance of the day was invested.
Chapter XXI of Genesis being desig-
nated as the Torah reading for the
first day, the masters of Midrach, who
understood combination of Biblical
verses did not allow anything to slip
by, which lent itself to bring out the
salient points and drive a strong mor-
al lesson, by way of simile or Mashal,
into the hearts of the people. In ad-
dition to the I'entateuchal sections,
the story of Hannah and Rachel was
selected for the additional reading
which made the verb Pakad the
strongest string no which the mean-
ing of "Memorial" could be played.
Starting out from the premises that
the narratives in the Torah are not
placed in the order of logical sequenc-
es, it gave the teachers of the Midrach
still greater scope to stretch the points
they wished to make in their elucida-
tion of the text; their efforts, however,
were only directed to collect the Bib-
lical verses corresponding to the
poem, as may be gleaned from the
Pesiquta Rabbuti editor Friedman,
chapter X1.11.,
The serious charcter with which
Rosh Ile-Shanah was invested gave

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An incident, poignantly illustrative
of the older Magidim starts out on
of one of the modern Jew's greatest
this very text while attempting to
recently. Such inci-
rouse his congregants to penance with
the following simile. Once a poor vii- losses,
place
r everywhere, but
dents took
happen
daily,
lager, who had lived in dire poverty, their common occurrence does not
became suddenly enriched through make them less melancholy. The typi-
winning a large sum in the lottery. cal emancipated irreligious Jewish
The sudden change in his life begot graduate students at a large univer-
the desire in him to leave his confines oily were to be married. In deference
to see the world, and heroine acquaint- to their old-fashioned parents — a
ed with the life of larger cities. To civil il ceremony was thought sufficient
satisfy his sudden cravings he betook t the couple—they consented tohave
himself to the capital of a great coon- what they facetiously termed a
try to observe the conditions prevail- "chaseneh" with all the ceremonies
ing in the metropolis. On his arrival .
he sought the most luxurious hostelry pertaining thereto. They were frank-
he
s amused at the prospect and took no
with a view of meeting the most rep- pains to conceal their contempt for
awn. Not having been the mummery which the beliefs of
us
ed to the ways of the world, and their parents necessitated. The guests
naturally very timid, he sought, the invited were for the most part like
first night after his arrival, his rest- themselves graduate students and in-
ing place, and retired to his room very structors to whom the forms and de-
early with the intention to rest up mends of the Jewish religion were
from his long and wearied trip, and
either unfamiliar or long discarded.
he refreshed for the next day, to take
The atmosphere in the spacious tra-
in the sights of the great city. But
he had hardly closed his eyes, and
to be solemnized,
was the
obviously
one
of
while drowsiness was creeping on him, ternity
house, where
marriage
was
merriment. A great joke, a sweet, a
he was suddenly aroused by the sound
tender joke but a ioke nevertheless,
of an unusually shrill horn, and while
was to take place. Only the old folks,
pricking his ears to hear whence the
the old woman with her wig and the
alarming sound came he was still ter-
old man with the long beard and
rified by the noise of rolling wagons
skull cap, curiously out of keeping
and trampling horses in their gallop-
with the enlightened group and the
ing march to quicken their speed to
flower-decked rooms visibly touched
reach some place. Not knowing the
by the liberal influences of the uni-
meaning of that noise, he feared that
versity near-by, seemed keyed to the
some danger must be near by and he
hurriedly (*heft his cl othes and came gravity of the occasion. The rest, par-
the bride and groom, were
down
down stairs terribly frightened, ready
to flee for his life. The guests who
the
hotel
the in stranger
in his great
tribal
a relic in
of a the
(lark ages
were
still saw
sitting
the corridors
of about
to ritual,
participate
meaningless
whose observance was still desired by
fond and foolish relatives. When the
predicament and almost in a state of
who
f renzy, accosted him with the question
reformed but something
0 to his unusual (1 e m e a n o r , and n a t - orthodox
i ta
. o, arrived, '
n
orally after much persuasion he
wail was clearly struck. The rabbi was
convinced that there was no danger I siaisty displeased by the skeptical
as all this noise was only in conse- '
quence of a fire which started in some nonchalance of the pair. A certain
part of the city and the shrill noise 1 degree of uncomfortable tension was
evident. The bride did not hesitate
came from the fire horn which called
the firemen to their duty, and the peo-
"silly nonsense."
ple inquisitive to know where the fire
began. Somehow
was, followed the fire department to to The
call ceremony
the proceedings
about to the
be
Chuppe h and the whole paraph ey-
the scene of the conflagration. See- e
in g that th e ether guests made no nabs
move to leave the place, he finally re- diculous and insincere in anticipation
inexpressibly
beautiful so
and
turned to his room and retired for the became
I of tradition
which sounded
ri-
rest of the night and slept soundly un-
til morning. This was the first exper- canopy where the groom woo waiting;
tense of the villager in the metropolis solemn when dramatized. The father
tan city, and he kept in his mind, in- and mother escorting the bride to the
tending to apply it in his own village
gravely
joined
the pair as
in the event of a similar occurence. the
earnest
benediction
of individuals
the rabbi
when
as taking
members
of the
community
of
After a short stay in the same city
he and
who,
dignity
from
his office,
continued his journeys, and gained ex- Israel; the drinking of the wine; the
made
his
way
homewrad
to
settle
breaking
of
the
goblet
in
commemora-
perience wherever he went, andhen
tion of the destruction of the temple
people and
he became weary of his itinerancy
he

greatest personal joy might be mind-
down again among his
the the
tragedy
of the
his hour
people—all
arrange his domestic affairs in accord- ful
so of that
Jew in
of his
aeri these made a series of impressions not
Once
holdd with his financially improved
night while deeply clasp- lightly to he forgotten. The rabbi,
condition and the experience he had
conscious of the attitude which eon-
g
!du
oneng his travels. But lo and
fronted him, had spoken feelingly and
be in
.
e in the arms of Morpheus he was pointedly of non-believers who robbed
lage seemed
mined. Looking ceremonies of their significance. His
awakened
by to
an have
unusulal
y alarming

noise in which all the peopl e of the

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Though Goldsmith's familiar penta-
meter, carried
"And those
who came to scoff
out through
his window he beheld a words
home.
. .
at remained to pray" is too extreme at
(la me l c !rig up and consuming a cer-
le
both
ends
for
accurate
application to
tain part of the village; he hurriedly
who had to
formed
themselves
into a , the present instance, the line some-
hastened
the scene
and shouted
ex- , what describe the reactions of the ma-
the pitch of his voice to the people

bucket brigade and attempte he told affected to tears and the eyes of the
m t company—as
the
lady novelist
a
the flames, telling them
of the ,jaritY at the
wedding.
The bride of
was
former day might remark—were
uselessness of their labors; d to
moist. The. marriage had been truly
to
th em
sound
the fire alarm
the shrill horn and return to their cons'eCrated. It had been consecrated
in be the open, solemn recognition of in-
homes and go to sleep; procedure
they did as
such
they were told, for he insisted that
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had observed the same pr
the metropolis of such and su , people. Personal caprice had been
the village
on he
the
following
mornin
given
and significance
the
country
and
was
told there
was , no
tone depth
and religious
past of a by
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The whole section which was engulfed could have given the sense of continu-
in the flames was entirely destroyed ity with the generations before and
and the peasants lost everything they the generations to come, with the ben- .r
this . edietion of the rabbi, hallowed and
had.
The poor people stormed the home I authoritative through his post, of-
and
as man
he had
of
the
who become
was the suddenly
cause o ..1. rich feted. Yet the children of the couple,
total loss, and demanded reparation having no orthodox parents to pla-
nt the place in which he cate, will probably have no contact
was born
and raised,
the to
first
through
accidental
luck, and
he had
Ilse with Judaism other than the accident
people are That is a great loss, for
for his life from
the customs and ceremonies of a vital
thing he did was to return to the same le are not the dusty increments of
he met
the same in people
and an outworn past, but are the body
city and took
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the same
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was caused in the place cient sorrow; a usage which the race
where he had came from,
found fittest to express the inner
all
account he believed them, and afto ea r, , meanings of an act, take new mean-
the alarm is sounded there is no fur- ' ing from the races present good or
the
mean-
they danger. Amazingly stood they I Present sorrow, and give new mean-
retorted:
ing to and
the
individual's
present deed.
whom he thus addressed,
finally
•
y. —(The Day.)
"Friend! You entirely misunder-
stood our statement. The signal which
THE PRAYER OF AMRAM
caused you so much fright when on
your first visit is not to awaken every
citizen, It is a call for the firemen to
hasten to the scene of conflagration. Amram Ben Enoch, as the day de-
spotsd to the place and MVP life and
dined,
It is to rouse them to quick action, to'. His fervent heart at peace with hu-
property, but the signal alone, as you
mankind,
advised your people, is useless. The Bowed down beside his Testament and
flames know no bounds when once gin - .
prayed
en an opportunity to burst forth."
, (His silver locks a-shimmering in the
Thus the old homiletician continued
shade):
it is with the whole household of Is- I God grant the morrow find ace swift
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rael, who is indifferent the whole year
and keen
to the behest of God. The Yetzer. '
To solace and to strengthen those
Harah is the burning flame within'
who lean! ...... .... ... ....
him, threatening to consume him; he,t
in spite of the occasional shrill that : That night the Spirit AZRAEL, the
reaches his ears to be good, goes back',
dread,
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to :sleep. But, on Rosh Ha-Shanah : Caressed him with his finger and then
the first shrill sound heard from the,
fled.
Shofar awakens Israel from his , But as he reached the Gates of Pearl
drowsiness and lethargy, for this is a
he heard
Bakery, 533 Rivard
day on which God judges the universe', The hymning of the angels and God's
The Shofar sounds the alarm and calls:
Word:
Israel to Repentance, Prayer and ' Amram Ben Enoch's saintly life I
R i ghteousness,
teousness, but this alone dses not
spare;
suffice to extinguish the burning Add twoacore years, Recorder, for
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his prayer!
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