Sukkot: Feast of Tabernacles Commemerating the Harvest
' THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Sept. 27, 1974
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Beth Abraham-Hilllel Celebrtes
Rabbi Halpern's 25 Years Here
the prayers of the day. The
land."
The seven-day dwelling in hoshana prayers for a good
booths became the central harvest in the year to come
custom of the feast; in Jeru- are recited during a proces-
Rabbi Halpern, who is mar-
The Beth Abraham-Hillel
salem this was carried out sion seven times around the
at the Temple square. As the bima after which five aravot Synagogue family will pay ried to the former Hinda
main feast of the year, Tab- (symbols) bound together, tribute to Rabbi Israel I. Hal- Rabinovich, has three chil-
pern with a weekend anniver- dren: Shimshon, an attorney
ernacles was the occasion for are beaten.
in Israel; Rella of New York
the consecration of Solo-
Shemini Azeret is the eighth sary celebration Oct. 11-13 at City, and Eli, a senior at
the
synagogue
culminating
in
mon's Temple.
day of Sukkot, and treated by
It is customary to use the rabbis as a separate fes- a silyer anniversary testi- Wayne State University; and
leaves or straw as the roof tival. The memorial service monial dinner on the occasion four grandchildren call the
For reservations,
covering of the 'sukka; the and a special prayer for rain of Rabbi Halpern's "outstand-
walls, however, may be of (Tefillat Geshem) are recited ing leadership and service to synagogue, 851-6880.
any material. The sukka during Musaf in the syna- the congregation and to the
must be so well covered that gogue. The Book of Ecclesi- community during the past
there is more shade than astes is read in the syna- 25 years."
Rabbi Halpern who came to
open space but the covering gogue on the intermediate
should not be so thick that Sabbath of Sukkot or, when the Beth Abraham pulpit in
Editor's Note: David Ro-
even a strong rain cannot there is no intermediate Sab- 1949, previously held pulpits
g
rein.
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penetrate. It must have at bath, on this day. Among the in Canada and Massachusetts senberg, whose interpreta-
least three walls (the third reasons given for the read- and was a chaplain in the tion of Psalm 23 appears be-
need only be one handbreadth ing are: , It's melancholy Canadian Army during World low, was the only University
in width), and beneath the nature, which makes it ap- War II. Ordained at the Rabbi of Michigan student to win
open sky, not under a tree propriate reading for- the Isaac Elchanan Theological. a double Hopwood Literary
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sukka. In modern times, in the
lulav are traditionally
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Psalm 23
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often there are pictures and dah and Akiva Hebrew Day for his name
no sukka of their own.
The lulav is held with the tapestries on the wall. Some School, Mizrachi, Internal and tho I pass thru cities of
pain, thru death's living
spine facing the holder. On of these pictures are called Relations Committee a n d
Broadcasting Commission of
shadow
the first day it is necessary ushpizin.
t\
the Jewish Community Coun- I'm not afraid to touch
for
each
person,
to
take
his
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to know what I am
cil.
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own arba'ah minim, `(four Kosher Crown
Dr. Robert Schlaff, past your shepherd's staff is
symbols
of
sukkot)
but
on
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president, and Nelson Dembs,
always there
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ISRAEL, U.S.A.,
Arba'ah minim purchased by Lefkowitz has been named includes President Menasche in my body
Reservations
Haar,
past presidents Irving You set a table before me
and EVERYWHERE
the congregation can, how- manager of the Crown Hotel, Adler, and
Louis Ellenbogen, Fred
ever, be taken even on the the third generation of the Erlebacher, William Genser, in the presence of my
enemies
Benoit Gorge, Sam Kaufer, Sig-
first day, since each con- Berkowitz family to be in- mund
Lowenthal, Dr. Harry New-
gregant has had a share in volved in the management of man, Henry Pokart, Herman you give me grace to speak
them. The arba'ah minim the largest kosher hotel in Strassburger, Henry Thumin; and to quiet them
Cantor Shabtai Ackerman, Max to be full with humanness
are waved while the Hallel Miami Beach.
Blum, Joseph Bienenstock, Paul to be warm in my soul's
Dr. Samuel Cowen, Ber-
is recited. They are waved
Lefkowitz is the son-in-law Boraks,
nard Dach, Leonard Farber, Jules
lightness
first toward the east, then of Murray Berkowitz, head Feldmesser,
Cantor Israel Fuchs, to feel contact every day
Aaron
Goodman,
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the south, the west, the of Abonro, Inc., operators of
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J. Kaufman, Irwin Klar, Carl love coming down to me
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Langer, Bernhard Lichtenstein,
ward the end of the service
In
addition
to
its
strictly
Rev. Joseph Mermelstein, Aaron in the air of your name, Lord
in the synagogue, a scroll is
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cession
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bima
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The seventh day of Sukkot
are among the 43 members
founded
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The festival of Sukkot
(booths or tabernacles), be-
ginning on the 15th day of
Tishri (Oct. 1 this year),
commemorates the sukkot in
which the children of Israel
dwelt in the wilderness after
the exodus from Egypt.
The festival lasts for seven
days of which the first (and
the second in the Diaspora)
is a yom tov (a festival on
which work is prohibited)
and the other days hol ha-
mo'ed (intermediate days on
:AB
ION
which...work is permitted).
Immediately after Sukkot,
is the festival of Shemini
Azeret ("the eighth day of
solemn assembly") which
also is a holiday.
According to the Encyclo-
pedia Judaica, the "feast was
celebrated by, the Israelites
at the time of the ingather-
ing from the threshing floor
and wine press "at the end
of the year." The last of the
three Israelite feasts con-
nected with the agricultural
year. Tabernacles was from
ancient times one of the most
important feasts of the Is-
raelites and is therefore
called "the feast of the
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