Oldest Printed Edition of Bible New Year Greetings Mr. and Mrs. Maurice J. LOWE CHINCHILLA SALES Feldman & Family 16483 WOODWARD Highland Pork TO 8-3875 PAUL FAUST 18493 Santa Barbara ,,, Wish Their Relatives & Friends A Warm and Joyous and Happy New Year The first complete edition of the Old Testament was printed in Soncino in 1488 C.E. A book of the Psalms was printed in 1477 in Bologna. A book of the Pentateuch was printed in this same place in 1482. A book containing the five Megiloth was printed there in 1482. A book containing the prophets was printed in Son- cino in 1485 and a book con- taining the Hagiographa was printed in Naples in 1486. There is no record, however, of any complete Bible being printed before the 1488 Son- cino edition. Rosh Hashanah Greetings ROSE'S DRIVE-IN FREDSON'S 20931 Joy Rd. TI 6-7983 Rosh Hashanah Best Wishes J. LEVIN & SONS CO. ■ ••11111.1•11•14.!0•11=11.111• ■ 0 .11 ■ .0•11111•11.111111.1)1 ■ 041111 ■ • Happy New Year to Our Friends and Patrons 1 EASTERN POULTRY Holiday Greetings COBURN STUDIO HAWKINS APPAREL SHOP INTERIOR DIRECTORS Draperies - Furniture Re-Upholstering - Slip Covers 3143 r 41111 2542 RIOPELLE WO 1-0707 Season's Greetings KELL' S Beverage Store Money Orders FREP. DELIVERY KE 1-7371 Beer, Wine, Pop, Chips, Nuts Bread, Milk, etc. 19815 W. 7 MILE RD, at Evergreen MICHIGAN VEAL & LAMB CO. 1545 WINDER Eastern Market Heating and Cooling Residential & Commercial 13130 PLYMOUTH WE 3-0209 Greetings on New Year's J .Simon & Sons Electrical Contractors Wiring & Fixtures 17190 WYOMING UN 4-0303 Best Wishes for A Happy New Year Advance Plumbing & Heating Supply Co. H. Chernick, President 2984 W. Grand River TE, 1-7770 • Happy New Year Magic Textile Weavers * * * I " Bible Study at Night (Copyright, 1958, JTA, Inc.) Some Jews refrain from studying the Bible at night. These Jews restrict their night time study to the oral law of the Talmud. Some conunen- 17395 LIVERNOIS taries base this pattern on the UN 2-2988 , experience of Moses at Mount • Sinai. When Moses spent his 40 days and 40 nights on Mount Sinai he had only one way of Best Wishes on New Year's telling whether it was day or night. During the daylight hours the Lord taught him the Written Law, or the Bible, as we know Reasonable Prices it. Some contend that the writ- 15321 West 7 Mile Rd. ten Scripture represents the BR 3-0010 strict spirit of justice since it is a matter of the letter of the law. The Oral Law represents the quality of mercy since it is Best Wishes on New Year's a matter of interpretation. To Our Friends & Patrons The Kabbalistic contention is hat the forces of hard justice re strongest at night. Thus the tudy of the night should be Carpets - Linoleum he Oral Law which can be used Asphalt Tile - Formica 1 o temper the harshness of the 8170 Livernois TY 7-9514 ritten Law. In the daylight ours the forces of mercy are perative and then the Written .• • s cripture is studied to remind Greetings of the Season - s of the need - to adhere to the etter of the law in order to be JOHN J. FANNON - ' , v orthy of the Almighty's mercy. Thompson Cleaners & Tailors PRODUCTS 04 10.1 Harry 41 iI IMIN41 1111110. 0.11 11 Be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words ... nor be dismayed at their looks . . . But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee —Ezek. 2:6,8. C. Hayes Prescriptionist W. CURTIS BLDG. Grand Blvd. at Hamilton TR. 1-3464 New Year Greetings GLOBE AGENCY Mr. Sam Zack 20030 JAMES COUZENS BR 3-8616 01111•11.11, Best Wishes for a Happy New Year COLBERT Candy Company • 7751 HAMILTON TR 5-4497 • New Year Greetings LIN BOULEVARD Laundry & Cleaners 6546-50 LINWOOD TY 6-1010 041=1.0 1 ■0 •11■ 0 ■ 141 .1111M0 ■ 111.0 ■ 04111M04111111111, 0•111 ■0■ 1.01 A Happy Holiday PHENEY GLASS CO. 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Mac Ewen & Sons VIVIAN'S PASTRY SHOP All Types of Beauty Service The oldest manuscripts we Specializing in Tray Catering possess of the Bible- as a whole, Featuring Wilno Products date no earlier than the tenth "For the Finest in Food" century of the Common Era. 18277 WYOMING The absence of earlier manu- UN 4-2961 scripts is said to be due to the Jewish custom of putting aside old and worn copies of Best Wishes to Our the Torah, concealing them and Friends and Patrons finally burying them, so they New Year Greetings to for a Happy New Year have deteriorated. If the I My Friends and Patrons opinion of the majority of criti- Margolis 5- Reznick Compliments of cal scholars is accepted, the Kosher Meats manuscript of the Book of & Poultry Isaiah may be said to be about Civil Engineer & Surveyor `.• 11738 Dexter, near Tuxedo 2,000 years old and this docu- 501 GRISWOLD BLDG. TO 8-8118 DETROIT, 26, MICH. ment, which was among those .■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, ■ would become our oldest Bibli- cal manuscript in incomplete New Year Greetings form. Happy New Year It is generally assumed that while a fairly constant con- sonantal text existed of our Bible at least from the begin- 13430 West 7 Mile Rd. ning of the second century of DI 1-2840 the Common Era, the pointings 13311 LINWOOD -......................................... and accents which now appear in our texts were only formal. ized and achieved in the ninth New Year Best Wishes to or tenth centuries. Two factors Our Friends and Customers influenced the formalization of a voweled text. The Jews in HY LOPATIN Palestine and Babylonia were Kosher Meats and Poultry Choice Quality Products living under Arab rule and 20434 W. 7 MILE the Arabs had then introduced KE. 5-8888 their vocalization of the Koran. WE DELIVER ENterprise 6742 Also, the conflict with the Ka- raite movement in the 8th century made it necessary to ■ ■ ■ A Happy New Year establish a formally accepted 10.11 •11■0411110.0 ■ to Our Friends & Patrons way of pronouncing the Bibli- Season's Greetings DEXTER-CORTLAN D cal text in accordance with Rabbinical tradition. It is said "House of Bonds " KOSHER MEAT & that punctuation began in Abe Hertzberg POULTRY MARKET about the year 700 C.E., and ;Surety Bonds License Bonds Nathan Somotnick reached its full status in the I 1401 BEAUBIEN 12222 DEXTER 9th and 10th century. ■ =111 .0■ 04.1111141i0.11 ■ 1-041 ■4 1 ■ 11.4)1•11 ■ 0•111•110. •111 Holiday Best Wishes SHERI-SUE BEAUTY SALON (Copyright, 1958, JTA, Inc.) —.0....••—...o.—.,......,,......o....,,,, Holiday Best Wishes Our Specialty Extra Heavy Malts Carry-Out Service 1 By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX z........0.................—.....,.....„....--- 0 . I Best Wishes for a Happy New Year to Our Relatives and Friends 1 MR. and MRS. 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