no. 1680. JEWISH CHRHMONIALS—ADLER AND CASANOWICZ. AL 
child, and, after reciting several passages of the Scriptures, pro- 
nounces a blessing over the wine, then over the spices, smelling them 
and passing them to the others present, then over the light, closing 
with thanksgiving to God for the distinction He made between 
Sabbath and workdays, between things sacred and profane, ete. 
The cup is then passed around among the members of the family 
and the candle extinguished with drops of wine from the cup. This 
ceremony is called habdalah, 1. e., separation or division, because it 
divides or separates the Sabbath from the other days of the week. 
68. Smnver CANDLESTICK USED ror HaspauanH.—The base is in the 
form of a leaf, 2# inches long and 24 inches wide; height of the can- 
dlestick, 1 inch, with an extinguisher. (Plate LX XIX, fig. 4, No. 
154586, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
69. Spice Borrir, usep ror HaspataAn.—Made of china, with neck 
of oxidized silver. Measurements, 44 inches high; 12 inches in 
diameter. (Plate LX XIX, fig. 3, Cat. No. 154587, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
70. Spice Box.—Made of brass in five pear-shaped compartments 
resting on five legs. The cover of each compartment is surmounted 
by a lion, while in the center stands a peacock. Measurements, 5 by 
44 inches. Plate LX XX, Cat. No. 248920, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Hadji Ephraim Benguiat. 
71. Stuver Spice Box.—Made in form of a tower resting on a base. 
Supposed to have been manufactured in Laupheim, Germany, about 
1740. Height, 8 inches. (Plate LXXXI, fig. 4, Cat. No. 130297, 
U.S.N.M.) 3 
THE NEW MOON. 
(2. TABLET IN GILDED FRAME, INSCRIBED IN GOLD LETTERS ON A BLUE 
GROUND WITH THE Hrsrew worps: New Moon.—In the Pentateuch 
the new moon festival is enumerated among those which were ob- 
served by additional sacrifices, Numbers xxvii, 11-15, and whose ap- 
pearance was heralded by the sounding of trumpets, Numbers x, 10. 
The day is referred to as a sacred one also in I Samuel xx, 5-18; I 
Kings 1v, 23; Isaiah i, 13, 143 Ixvi, 23; Ezekiel xlvi, 1, 3; Hosea ii, 13; 
Amos vill, 5. Some modern Jews observe the new moon day by re- 
citing, in the open air and facing the moon, special prayers, which 
devotion is called “ Blessing of the Moon” (birhath ha-hodesh), 
and abstaining from unnecessary work. Dimensions, 11 by 6 inches. 
(Cat. No. 1429, U.S.N.M.) 
Lent by Mr. David Sulzberger. 
PASSOVER. 
The feast of Passover is celebrated in commemoration of the deliv- 
erance of Israel from the bondage of Kgypt, as related in the first 
