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By DR. MAEANNA CHESERTON-MANGLI

For Our Young People

Director, NCJC Religious Press Committee

David and Jim Launch the New Year

hushed silence as the stirring call sounded. Jim sent up itc:,
'It isn't used now, is it?"
It was a beautiful, sunny fall day. Just the right
silent prayer that the peace and happiness which the
"Oh,
yes
and
it's
blown
during
the
New
Year
cere-
kind of day for a visitor to see New York at its best. As
shofar heralded would indeed come that year to the er
David Levy walked up Fifth Avenue with his new mony and it means we should plan for a new year of
tire world, and that the brotherhood of all men, wheth(
friend Jim, he felt a personal pride in this wonderful peace and brotherhood for all men."
they celebrated their New Year in September or la
city in which he lived. The fact that Jim was so awed
"Gee, I'd like to hear it and see the ceremony and
January, would become a reality.
delighted
David
no
end.
everything," Jim said. "But it won't be blown now till
by everything he pointed out,
As they walked home, he told David what he'd..been
"You know," David was saying in his friendliest January, will it?"
thinking. Jim's sincerity and warmth made a deep im-
manner,,2,:M„gm often told me about your mother. They
"Oh yes it will. You see. the Jews had a calendar
pression. That afternoon, when the house was full of
long before the Roman calendar was thought of—in fact,
,.vent to school together, didn't they?"
visitors
who had come to wish the Levys a Happy New
the year 5708 is coming up soon. At first, spring was
Jim grinned. "Yes. That was when she was Mary
Year, Jim drew David aside for a few private words.
celebrated
as
the
beginning
of
the
year.
But
sometime,
Billingsley before she married Dad and moved to Ohio."
"Say, Dave, I've had a swell time, being here at
long ago, the celebration of the New Year was changed
David chuckled. "I suppose they're talking their
your New Year! Why don't you plan to come out to
from Nissan, the first month of the Jewish calendar, to
headS off about old days."
Ohio at Christmas time and spend our New Year holiday
Tishri, the seventh month. No one seems to know just
As the boys strolled along it suddenly started to taro
why this happened. Well, that brought the New Year to
with us?"
and they looked around for shelter. David's eye caught
the fall, and since the Jewish calendar is figured by
"Thanks, Jim." David smiled his gratitude. "I'd like
a familiar sight. There on the corner of 92nd Street was
both the sun and the moon, New Year's Day depends
that. As a matter of fact, then I can celebrate our
the place he and his dad had visited one day last sum-
on when the new moon appears."
Hanukah with you."
mer. "Come Jim. Follow me."
"SOunds complicated," said Jim with a bewildered
"Hanukah! That's a new one on me. Guess I still
In no time the boys ran inside the massive doors,
look.
have a lot to learn."
David laughed. "All you have to remember is that
breathless.
And the boys rejoined the guests, full of anticipation
the Jewish New Year, called Rosh Hashanah, usually
Jim looked around. "This is a beautiful place," he
for
the
days of friendship ahead.
comes about the middle or the end of September."
said. "What is it—a museum?"
Then
it's
right
soon,
isn't
it?"
"Yes," David answered. "But a special kind. It open-
"Yes, it's next week so you can go with us
ed last spring. It's a museum of Jewish culture—from
to the synagogue and see the ceremony and
the earliest Biblical times down to the present."
hear the shofar blown if you want to."
"May we go around to see it?"
"Gee, that's super, David. But you better
tell me something more about it. What does
"Surely. It's for anyone."
Rosh Hashanah mean?"
Jim was fascinated by the various exhibits and
"It's Hebrew for 'head of the year' and 'is
David proved to be an instructive guide. They saw the
the first of the two High Holy Days in the
Sacred Scrolls and some remarkably accurate copies of
Jewish Calendar."
third-century frescoes on Biblical themes, which re-
minded Jim of the Biblical history he'd learned in
'What's the other?"
Sunday School. They also saw many of the ancient
"Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. That
Jewish symbols — among them the eight-branched
comes just ten days later. On those days,
candlesticks called the Menorah, and an unusual musical
people kind of take stock of themselves and
instrument. This particularly intrigued Jim.
repent of their wrongdoings."
"What's that strange looking horn over there,
"You mean something like the way we do
David?" he asked.
during Lent?"
"Yes, sort of. On Rosh Hashanah, we Jews
"Oh, that's called a shofar."
believe that God looks down and judges each
"A chauffeur?" queried Jim. "But that's a man who
one; and on Yom Kippur, ten days later, He
drives a car."
makes the final judgment. The days in between
- "No," laughed David. "This shofar is a ram's horn.
are called the Ten Days of Penitence."
It's a very ancient musical instrument, dating back to
Jim interrupted: "But where does the Shofar
hollow
reed
a
the old days when a shepherd played on
come
in?"
or on a flute which he carved from a thin, growing
"That's at the Rosh Hashanah service. You'll
sht."
oo
s
hear it next week."
"What does it sound like?" Jim asked, "and what's
Jim could hardly wait. His visit w*s full of
These
illustrations for the High Holy Days are reprinted
it used for?"
such wonderful discoveries. The week passed
from a manual entitled "Jewish Designs," published by the
"It's got a kind of weird hollow sound," David
quickly and when they were attending the
National Jewish Welfare Board, containing illustrations and
answered. "And, believe me, it takes plenty of lung
services in Temple, Jim immediately recog-
decorations for all Jewish festivals. They are designed for
power to blow it. In Biblical times in Palestine, the
nized the Menorah he'd seen in the museum.
reproduction in publications issued by Jewish Community
wak
used
to
proclaim
the
crowning
of
a
king,
or
But it was the blowing of the shofar that im-
shofar ∎
Centers, YMYWHAs and other Jewish agencies.
announce the Sabbath, or to call the people to arms.
pressed hm most. The congregation stood in
o
also announced the New Year."

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