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The second department is the
Teach/11/s' Institute, founded to assist
in the training of religious school
teachers. The institute conducts sem-
inars for the training of teachers in
the presentation of Jewish religious
school subjects, in the principles of
pedagogy and in religious school ad-
ministration.
The third department is the He-
brew Union College Library, wnich is
intended both for the students and
professors of the college and is also
open to all scholars who desire to pur-
sue studies along Jewish lines. It
contains 58,000 volumes and 10,000
pamphlets.
The Hebrew Union College spon-
sors the New York School for Teach-
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tained by singling out one particular
part of the liturgy, and for this rea-
son, the following remarks will deal
only with one of the characteristic
parts of the liturgy of the Day i d
Atonement - the Abodah.
The Abodah in its present form is
the result of several centuries of
growth. It caw into the liturgy as
a result of the disruption of the .1e.v•
ish State. Originally the chief relig• •
ious functions of the Day of At .11,-
Inent laInterlId about the sacrifice. in
During
described in Lli • it XVI.
the second Temple the simple fuse.
lions of the High Priest assumed a
more complicated form and were sur-
rounded by numerous ceremonies us,
detailed in the Mishnah Yoram. In-
stead of the single confession by the
High Priest prescribed in Leviticus,
it became 1.11,terfillry for him to make
three confessions, one for himself, one
for the entire priestly family, and a .
third for the entire Jewish ample..
511111Y preparations were made before
the Da. of Atonement and during thy
day the elders or representative pen- I
plc of Jerusalem participated in the
ma vi :1 I. With the
•erenn Meg (
destruction of the Temple and the
consequent abolition of sacritiveg, the
liturgy became of paramount
tall,. And we know that as early ns
the time of Rabbi Akilia the people
, spent the whole Day of Atonement in
: prayer and devotis•, for it is related
of him that he allowed an interrupt bai
in the service to permit parents to go
home to feed the little children f To-
septha Tiara iv :21. We cannot say
definitely of what the earliest liturgy
consisted, but WO may safely state
that it gnat part of it was devoted
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can Ilebrew Congregations, an torso- York.. It opened in the autumn of which describes the funetion of the
, elation organized by a group of de-
,, .itni t the Temple on the Day of
t:f ents
u
k
1923 with 193 students. No tuition i
rout and energetic men for the pur-
fiosr in its
1 pose of strengthening progressive Ju- is charged.
The faculty of he Ilebrew Union
devo-
suita ble
daism in America.
mesca l
College
consists
of
Dr.
Julian
tier-I
Detroit, Mich.
The college has become the foun- genstern, president ; Dr. Kaufmann t band purposes, since it contains di-
Norman Frank, Prop.
tainhead and exponent of the hidori- Kohler, president emeritus; Dr. Louis vergent opinions of the various Tan-
t s hirs
te !
oat and prophetical interpretation of
nt ,l otihtse ailil;,(1.0,51 i t s ) t p ui t s e,in t (IT
Grossman, hr. David Neurnark, 1/r. Ifs, rill.nrgauri
the Jew's dostaly in history rather
than of the ritualistic interpretation
difficulty (mild etuily be overcome tip
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prevailing in the European countries
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from which the vast majority of Jews
ing only a straightforward account.
view
have emigrated. This point of
That this was the nature of the an-
the college leashes the students and
cient Almeah was long surmised by
they in turn transmit it to the con-
the fact tint the Cann, Rabbi Annuli
gregations, whose spiritual welfare
in his Siddur, says that on the Day of
they direct. The result is that the
Atonement s recitsol tie Alealah,
pulpits as well as the pews have been
i the
beginning
deeply influenced by this teaching of
s
hYn'n'h
n
American Judaism as developed by
this is no longer a theory, for the
Ilebrew Union College, the mod-
Genizah 1sts now yielded an Abodah
ern academy of Jewish literature and
I beginning "Seven Days," which is
nothing else but a modified term of
The Hebrew Union College in-
the Mishnah Turns.
cludes several departments. The first
In time, however, it was felt that a
DR. DAVID NEUMARK,
is a college for rabbis, the faculty of
dry account of the functions of the
p ro f o „ or o f J ow i.f, pso s , sp h y ,
which consists of 11 professors and
priest in the Temple as given in the
instructors, some of whom are the Jacob Z. Lauterbach, Dr. Moses But- Mishnah for in its n•alifiell form was
foremost in the world in their respec-
tenwieser, Dr. Henry Englander, Dr. not calculated to hold the attention
tive specialties. Dr. Julian Morgen- Solomon H. Freehof, Dr. Israel Bet- of the people and the Payyetanim be-
stern is president and Dr. Kaufmann
tan, Dr. Abraham Cronbach, Dr. Ja- gam to embellish it with various ad-
Kohler president emeritus. It has
sIt. Marcus ditions of their own. They felt that
graduated 248 rabbis who are offici- cob Mann, Professor Jacob
I the description of the Temple service
ating in progressive congregations in and Professor Samuel S. Cohon.
needed an historic setting. So they R
began with a brief historic account I
from Creation t the appointment of
Aaron as Priest. later they prefixed I
an introduction in which the poets
ask permission to set forth their com-
positions. Having reached in their
account to the Prisethod, it was nat-
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The increasing rapidity with which tion—even tin se who lay claim to not in the old fashion Of copying the
people at large are becoming estrang- knowledge of Ilebrew—stand beavil- Misnah verbatim but by paraphrasing
ed from mediaeval Hebrew is at no
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time so strongly pronounced as during tiered before the writings of
It incubi take us too far out of the I-
:oval author. Translations may by
t he season of the high holy days.
adequate
to
convey
the
meaning
4 1 soy to show how the :Mishnah was
Even those to whom the daily prayers
texts, but they (I.1 not , paraphrased in the Payyetanie Aho- I F.
are as clear as their mother taiga° as a Ireligious
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I l the religious fervor dah, but anyone who will take the
stagger when they encounter the com- which inspired their authors, and! trouble of comparing, for ex
positions of the mediaeval poets. It
the originals are artifically can- the Ahedah of Rahld aleshullam ben
is not only the diction and style that which
plicat • I in structure and steeped in Kidonvnuis in the German ritual with
troubles them, but the very convep- allusions, even the best translation can this Mishnah will see how every state-
dens Of the poems are veiled in a
ment of the 'Mishnah has its parallel
f • I Mon
cloud of allusions through which they
This is not t' - c place to enter upon statement in the Abodah. by nay
cannot pen( trate. We hear a good
a d'scussian of the intrinsic merits of illustration the niethed of unro-
deal stout the renaissance of Hebrew.
of the Piyyut and its import/owe /1 phrasing may la It, be shown in the .4
Hut this has not led our youth hack
the religious scheme of things. But ease of a more minimal prayer. Tako
to the old sources. On the contrary, with the fact staring as in the face for example the prayer , Cl Baruch"
the endeavor has been to acquaint that many of those who are preserv- of the daily morning services (Singer
them with new terms and new forms
a
which contains the alphabet in n
safir
the ancient liturgy in the service p. 3S
of expression believed to be more in ing
are 11 t little acquaintel frith its his- an acrstic. This has 'wen para.
harmony with the new spirit of the torn oral deielopment, a few remarks phrased and formed into another al-
times. Thus far the result has been
on the subject may be webs ((Ti at this phalietic prayer "El Adon" (Singer
that a great many of us, brought up
time. It is out of themystion, of 129 for the Sabbat h Morning
on classical Hebrew literature, have
course, to deal here of the liturgy (Ti Prayer in such a fashion that, each
difficulty in understanding the new
general. The purpose of attracting word of the former is the beginning
literature, and very frequently stand
popular attentif may better be at- of n verse in My latter. Thug the I
in need of a dictionary; while the
former begins, "God the blessed great
in knowledge," etc. The latter reads:
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His greatness and goodness fill the
universe
Knowledge and understanding sur-
round hiss.
The parophrasis cannot la• shown
so well in the translation, but a com-
parison of the two prayers in the or
igisal will show that the first is the
: a ss of the second. The soinw rola-
can he shown to exist between
tl■ II
rho Abosiah and the Mishnah Yoma.
The •drier Abed t closed with the
I prayer of the High Priest. This may
have seemed t AI abrupt an ending and
the following foe sentences were ad-
ded:
the
1. in truth how glf rieus Was
High Priest as he came forth from
the Holy of Holies in perfect peace.
2. So was it in all these things.
while the Temple was on its founda-
tions, the holy sanctuary upon its
site, and the High Priest stm d min-
istered; his generation beheld and re-
joke.
3. Happy the rye that saw all
these things; verily to hear of them
' makf-th our soul sad.
J. Hut through the iniquities of
our fathers the Temple is in ruing,
:,ad our sins have prolonged the period
of its desolatif n.
5. But at this time and in this
hour it is reel aka in thy presence
, and known before Thy glorious throne
that we have no guide as in the days
I of old, no High Priest to otter sacri-
fice, no altar for burnt offering.
These five sentences, in their turn,
served to form the subjects of new
p , totie rnmpositions. Many poets who
dal not venture to compose an entire
Ahodah did, nevertheless, not refrain
from composing poems on one or in ire
of these five topics. Thus we bane
man• poems beginning, In truth h
glorious was the High Priest," Cr
"Harpy the eye that saw all these
things."
Among the poets who composed
the earlies t
Abedot are Yost. ben Yene,
known Pnyyotan, Einar ha-Kalir,
Saadish Gaon, Hai Gaon, Mashullam •
hen Kalonymes, Joseph ibn Abitur,.
Solomon din Gahirel, Manes and Abra-
ham ihn Ezra. In addition to these
there is a host of other poets who com-
posed "introductions" to the Abodah.
It may be interesting to note that the
latest Ahodah was composed in the
nineteenth century by the Italian
scholar and poet, Samuel David Luz-
zatto. Thus antiquity and modernity
join hands across the ages in the ser-
vice of the Synagogue.
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