The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. [51], No. [1], Ed. 1 Thursday, March 29, 1956 Page: 8 of 52
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JA 8-5534
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Kahn
Alfred's will serve Passover style meals
during the Holiday
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2408 Rics Boulevard
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of our zestful hot dishes or a cold plate of piquant
flavored delicatessen.
CORDIAL GOOD WISHES FOR A
JOYOUS PASSOVER
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Anniversary-Passover Edition
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GREETINGS AT THE PASSOVER SEASON
wastShop
Loula Leo- •
905 MAIN STREET
A child approaches him with the
question: “Where do you hail
from?" “From Egypt,” is the quick
response. “And where are you
journeying to?” “To the holy city
of Jerusalem," responds the old
man. After this little performance
all seat themselves at the table
and the Seder begins.
Samaritan Rites De Back
to Moses
While millions of Jews all over
the world generally follow a simi-
lar pattern in the observance of
the Seder, there is one small
group which has not experienced
a change in its celebration of
Passover since ancient times. The strictly observed the Torah.
Samaritans carry on in the rites The Samaritan religion is close-
and rituals as observed by Moses ly akin to that of the Jews, the
research insists that the present know it, are looked upon as dis-
Samaritans are not descendants of senters from the pure faith of Is-
the idol-worshipping colonists set- rael, and the forming of a center
the conquerors of Samaria. Nor, is condemned on the ground that where the religious rites are car-
are they to be identified with the the land of Ephraim, with the ried out. All their Passover cere-
opponents of Nehemiah who hin- city of Shechem and its moun- monies are observed in a camp
dered the rebuilding of the Second tains, figured in the earliest his- which is established on the side
Temple when the Jews returned tory of the Hebrews; that here the of Mount Gerizim.
from their exile in Babylonia, first Israelite altars were erected, The moral and spiritual worth
It is the opinion of modern re- and that these were the specific of Israel’s festivals have become
search authorities that the Samari- parts of the Land of Promise men- a vital part of Jewish life. Wheth-
tans of today are really a tiny tioned by Moses in the wilderness, er in Turkey or in Morocco, in
remnant of an ancient and great It is this strange group, now New York or in London in Ye-
Jewish sect, still in existence, who numbering a handful of souls, men or at Mount Gerizim, the
were always strongly religious, which continues to this day, to rituals of Passover recall the sym-
with faith in one God, and who observe, Passover in a manner holism of the Festival of Freedom.
which Jews ceased practicing al- Customs may vary and ceremon-
most two thousand years ago. To- ials may differ, but Passover has
day, on the eve of Passover, their always kept alive within the soul
, , v. - .... . . ..2 colony teems with activity, as they of Jews a love of liberty. It has
and the Israelites rather in the chief difference being tha e prepare to slaughter heathenism always been the faith of Jews as
ever-changing traditions that Jews cult of the former centers about such as that which influenced the expressed by Passover that has
have known for centuries. Gerizim, while that of the Jews Hebrews of ancient times. strengthened their devotion to the
At the foot of Mount Gerizim, centers a ut ion, an a the They have a high priest, who ideals of freedom in all genera-
Near Nablus, the modern name amaritan canon ° p e ser Ptu es assisted by lower priests, carry tions.
for Shechem, there lives today the restricted to the Pentateuch or
tiny colony of Samaritans. Al- Five Books of Moses and the Book
though generally described as of Joshua. The later writings, in-
Jews, their appearance and de- eluding the prophets, the Psalms
meanor distinguish them sharply and other Biblical books are re-
from others of the supposedly pudiated by the Samaritans as un-
same origin. inspired.
Much of the Passover that In view of the similarity in their
Jews have observed since the days beliefs and practices, it seems
of the Second Temple are still un- strange that there has existed the
known to the Samaritans. They fiercest animosity between the
know nothing of the use of wine, Jews and the Samaritans, but in
of the charoset, of eating the Pass- the animosity that invariably ex-
over repast comfortably from a ists. between an original and a
well laden table. They know no- schism. The Samaritans and other
thing about the practice of reelin- Jews became enemies who despis-
ing at one’s ease, or the many ed one another in the very same
other customs which came into manner as the Karaites and rab-
Judaism after the Samaritans had binic Jews hated each other in
separated from the rest of Jewry, later years.
The usual theory sis that the The Samaritans maintain that
present-day Samaritans are the they are the remnants and de-
descendants of the alien people scendants of the once great tribe
which was settled in Palestine by of Ephraim, and that the split be-
the Assyrians afer the Ten Tribes tween them and the Jews came
making up the kingdom of ancient about through the maladministra-
Israel were taken awy into cap- tion of the priesthood by Eli’s
tivity. However, modem historical sons. Followers of Judaism, as we
out the Paschal sacrifice in every
detail as prescribed in the Bible.
Since their Temple was destroyed,
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