ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about Holy Days which are widely different in character from the three Festivals: Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles They are New Year and the Day of Atonement. They are unlike the three Pilgrim Feasts in being not joyous, but solemn occasions. They are different from them in another respect also, for they neither have an agricultural character nor commemorate any historical event. Their message, indeed, is less for the race than for the individual. New Year falls on the first of Tishri, the seventh month of the Hebrew year. This is the traditional and most familiar name of the Festival. New Year's Day joins its appeal to that of the Day of Blowing the Trumpet. New Year, say the Rabbins, should inaugurate a new life. Thus the voices of the Festival blend themselves into one message. The admonitions of the Day of Memorial are interpreted by the note of the Shophar-interpreted to every heart.
