THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, Sep tember 2 8, 19 62 — 54 Glossary- for High Holy Days Gives Meaning of Traditional Rituals 3,000 Jews in Spain The Spanish Jewish commu- nity today numbers some 3,000 look" may give us a better custom of "shloggan kaporos," thoughtlessness and malice. But, persons, 2,500 of whom reside as the passage from Isaiah tells the act of transferring one's sense of direction. sins to a fowl. The practice is us on Yom Kippur, if we fast in Barcelona, 250 in Madrid with ROSH HASHANAH. Literal- merely symbolical of the fact and then fail to learn the lesson the remainder in Valencia, Se- ly, the words mean "the head that man can find. release from of dispensing justice to our fel- ville, Cordoba, San Sebastian of the year." The term points his faults, if he but makes the lowmen, then the entire process and Bilbao. Jews first settled up the need to pause in our effort. The word, kapparah, has been wasted. in Spain in Roman times. hurry-scurry through life and however, is fraught with valua- The Jewish holidays are start afresh on the task of ful- ble lessons, for it signalizes HAPPY NEW YEAR filling our finer ambitions. Judaism's proclamation that audio-visual and verbal devices designed to improve the caliber Originally the Jewish new year human beings can atone for MUSKOVITZ CT began in Spring, but gradually their misdeeds. This, perhaps, of our conduct. If we are alive the practice developed of re- is the greatest miracle of all, and alert to the meaning of PERSHIN garding the spiritual new year for it betokens a divinely-grant- these lessons, the holydays can PLUMBING & HEATING as more important than the ed power which can produce truly help us to d'shanah tovah, 2955 W. Davison natural one, a recognition of the marvels. The atonement, how- a term which literally means not fact that Judaism measures a ever, is not automatically pro- a happy year, but "towards a TO 8-8870 man by his deeds not his years. duced by any sacrament. It good year," So may it be. SHOFAR. The ram's horn is must be "sweated out." First, sounded to awaken us from our there must be acknowledgment tendency to stagnate morally. of one's wrongdoings. Then Happy New Year Originally the shofar was an there must be a declaration. implement of war; it was trans- Then there must be the quest muted into a call to war against of pardon. Then follows the evil. The shofar, then, is a sym- painstaking work of avoiding Industrial - Commercial - Institutional bol of the Jewish feeling that the errors in our life-pattern. 824 BAGLEY weapons of war ought to be WO 1-7777 AHL CHAYT. This is the changed into peaceful devices well-known litany of public and of the further Jewish be- lief that „belligerency in our confessional, often accompanied CLIUMSLSULLUISUL make-up should be channeled by symbolical beating of the breast. It is a valuable and into struggles for welfare not therapeutic custom, inducing warfare. humility and contrition. It's not SHABAS SHUVAH. The easy. How often in life do you Extends Its Heartiest Best Wishes Sabbath between Rosh Hasha- say Ahl Chayt, do you admit nah and Yom Kippur has a you are wrong? In most cases For a Happy New Year special name, S'habbas Shuvah. we rationalize our acts of 13501 Sanders VI 2-4115 Literally, it means the Sabbath shame. When you hear or take of Turning. Later it was deemed part in the Ahl Chayt procedure 5 611111515-0-1111-6111$1121 the Sabbath of Repentance, for remember that Ahl Chayt, lit- penitence, in Judaism, means a erally, on top of the sin, it is turn towards God. Whenever possible for you to plant rnitzvos Greetings on the New Year Happy New Year we hear the term it ought to or good deeds which will make hammer home the Jewish af- the spiritual deeds invisible. cfeo i firmation that man is always YOM KIPPUR. The Day of capable of rectifying errors and PHOTOGRAPHY • Bar Mitzvahs • Weddings undoing harm. The name and Atonement, that is, the day of Wholesale Beef and Boneless Cuts • Portraits • Movies the concept behind it is a vig- kapparah, forces us to set a Commercial Specialists TA 5-7580 2852 Eighteenth St. time, a day for the task of re- orous rejection of fatalism or 17590 Wyoming of any doctrine which says that generation. The term, Yom, or UN 1-1634 — UN 1-5244 man is doomed to certain inevi- Day, is important, for it re- table and inexorable denounce- minds us that often we put off ments. We subscribe instead to this chore. But there is a yom, Best Wishes on the Holiday the statement that man is fated a specified occasion, when we to repeat his history only if he .at least begin this assignment does not learn from it. But in self-discipline. learn he can. FAST. On Yom Kippur we Specializing in Windows — Door Frames - Sash KAPPAR A H. Often pro- are asked not to eat. In the Free Estimates nounced kappurah, this word is Bible we are urged to "afflict KE 4-4957 Livonia 12283 Merriman crucial to the holydays. True, ourselves." Abstention from it is often associated with the food brings discomfort. Discom- fort should make us realize the anguish we have caused. Realiz- ing the anguish we have caused Best Wishes for a Happy New Year Best Wishes for a Happy New Year others should induce in us To Our Friends and Patrons sympathy for the feelings of others and a consequent heal- Northland Center ing of the tendency of hurting others. Like the sukkah and the Eastland Center matzah, the fast is temporary, Broadway cor, Gratiot TA 6-5030 5454 W. Vernor Hwy. voluntary reduction in comfort to cause us to "taste" the harm we visit upon others by our By RABBI SAMUEL M. SILVER When the holy days come around we are immersed in a special world of ritual and liturgy. We hear various words and we use a number of terms. Each of them has a specific meaning and each has also a lesson which underscores the significance of the holiday. A mature person is one who can derive multiple aid from hearing certain words and let- ting their interpretation shape one's conduct. This, indeed, is the premise of the holydays themselves. They come to us to teach us that we are teachable, that if only we respond to the call and make use of the gifts and talents implanted within us by God. Each bit of holydayana has actually many interpretations. We will offer but one. There are other terms. too, besides those we list. 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