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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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A very Happy, Healthy
and Prosperous New Year

to all our family and dear friends

DR. and MRS. MATHEW BOROVOY,
MARC, CINDY & DEBBIE

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Wishing all our friendsand
relatives a year of health
and happiness

MR. and MRS.
ALLEN CHARLUPSKI & FAMILY

Rosh Hashana Tashlikh Rite
Has Diversified Meaning

are sometimes caught in
a net just like humans
It has become a Jewish who might be caught in a
tradition to offer prayers at net of sin.
It had also been said that
the water's edge on Rosh
Hashana afternoon. This going to the water's edge
ceremony has become reminds us that kings were
known as "Tashlikh" annointed at the water's
edge. This would tend to
(throw).
The name comes from a make everyone feel like a
verse in the Psalms which royal person who had the
says, "You shall cast all power to cleanse himself of
their sins into the depths of the past and proceed 4- a
the sea" (Micah 7:18). This royal future. -aimed that
Some have
would tell us that the water
tc " le water's edge
symbolizes the hope and the going
.,,,is us of the Midrash
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prayer that the Almighty
vriich tells of Abraham hav-
-would cast off our sins into ing been cast into the water
the sea and give us Hip for- as a means of preventing
giveness.
him from accomplishing his
The water, thus, bicomes mission of faith in the Al-
a symbol of a ;;leansing mighty. Abraham's devo-
agent. This ;, meant to con-
vince uP gnat the possibility tion is a source of grace for
us in earning the trust and
o f f" giveness exists.
Some explain this forgiveness of the Al-
ceremony by noting that mighty.
Water is also regarded as
it was a custom to go to a
body of water that had the universal connector be-
fish in it. The fish may tween all parts of the uni-
have been a symbol of verse. This tells us that
fertility, indicating a Rosh Hashana is the day
fruitful year to come. when we pray for all man-
They may also have been kind no matter where they
a symbol of beings that may be.

By RABBI SAMUEL FOX

(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)

By RABBI SAMUEL FOX

(Copyright 1980, JTA, Inc.)

Some make the Rosh
Hashana halla in the form
of a ladder. This has been

one of joy, happiness and

prosperity for all mankind

The Jewish News Staff

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Extends heartiest greetings to the entire
Jewish Community of Michigan, with
gratitude for the splendid cooperation
that has enabled us to work to-
gether for good community spirit.

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Mr. and Mrs. Philip Slomovitz
and son, Gabriel

Mr. and Mrs. Carmi M. Slomovitz

and son, Randy

Dharlene Norris
Drew Lieberwitz
Ben Gorney
Danny Raskin
Seymour Schwartz
Curtis DeLoye
Donald Cheshure
Catharine Ciccone

Alan Hitsky
Heidi Press
Marlene Miller
Marjorie Newberger
Tedd Schneider
Phyllis Tyner
Sandra Main
Ralph Orme

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Wishing all our friends
and relatives a happy and
healthy New Year

Halla and Honey Retain
Special Meaning on Holiday

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explained as symbolizing
either the ascension of man
or his fall.
This is characteristic of
the traditional impression
of Rosh Hashana which is a
day of judgment in which
some rise and others fall.
Others claim that the
ladder shape tells man he
can always climb if only he
wishes to ascend the ladder
of faith, no matter how far
down the ladder he finds
himself.
The halla is dipped in
honey at the Rosh
Hashana meal.
The diet on Rosh
Hashana was designed to
symbolize good tidings in
order to raise the optimism
of humankind on the Day of
Judgment. The honey,
being sweet, then, sym-
bolizes good news and
pleasant occasions during
the year to come like the
sweetness of the honey.
It also teaches the Jew to
face the future with op-
timism and courage instead
of with hopelessness and
desolation.
There are some who
point out that the numer-
ical value of the Hebrew
letters that spell the He-
brew word for honey
(D'vash) is the same as
the numerical value of
the title of the Almighty
as the "Merciful father"
(Av ha-Rachamim).
This, of course, sym-
bolizes to the Jew that the
Day of Judgment would in-
deed be tempered with
mercy by the Almighty, the
merciful father.

Few enterprises of great
labor or hazard would be
undertaken if we had not
the power of magnifying the
advantag we expect from
them.
— Johnson

Wishing all our friends
and relatives a happy and
healthy New Year

ROSA & JULIUS SCHAUMBERG

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Wishing all our friends and
relatives a year of health
and happiness

PETER & CLARA WEISBERG

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