Letter from Simon Ahaland to Isaac Leeser;March 1862
- Title
- Letter from Simon Ahaland to Isaac Leeser;March 1862
- Author
- Simon Ahaland
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
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- March 1862
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- Letter. 2 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).
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- Letter
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- English
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Mr Editor
In your April number, there appears a communication, from California over the signature of “Theophilus” relating to affairs in that distant part of the Union, which from his statement appears to be every thing but what they should be, Among other things he says avers that “Dr. Henry then refused to make more proselytes,” and then proceeds and continues says “Two Hebrew applied to the Congre==gation Shearith Israel to be married to widows having no children, which Dr Henry refused to do, as he stated that the widows must have Hebrew.”
And after continuing his bill of complaints in the same style, finished by envoking your attention “to the right minded Israelites of Calafernia” Which you in a very kind and Philanthropic manner proceed so to do, much no doubt, to your own satisfaction, but perhaps without that strict reguard to the law which the question required. Where do you find any such a law as “The marriage of the two Hebrew is illegal.” Certainly not in the Even Haezer V 1 the place quoted by you in your note, and sir could you find it in any other place, perhaps not, and not content with simply answering the question propounded, you say “it would be the same if simple Israelites” Now no such a law as that can be found in any book of standard authority among any Israelitish authors in the known world, and why and for what
purpose do you answer “the right minded” people in that manner, when you know, if you know any thing about the matter at all, that in the way the case was stated, that there could be no objection to the marriage of the widows to the two Hebrew or to any other two Israelites.
“That a Cohen is prohibited from marrying a Chabuzah” as stated by you, with reference to the Iben Heazer V.1 is a most singular thing, for the word Chabuzah is not mentioned in that place and as to the word, perhaps you would have done much better in your “Note” if you had told the “right minded” correctly where it is to be found or what is the meaning of the word, but Mr Editor things both in Philadelphia and California appear to be much out of place, in one place a Dr refuses “to make any more proselytes” while in the other an Editor refers to places and laws not to be found, and writes about a “Chabuzah” which puts all his numerous readers on tip toe of expectation hoping that in his next number that he will tell them where the law is to be found which forbids a childless widow from being married without Hebrew and the meaning of the word Chabuzah.
S. A.
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The above text refers to Occident Volume 20 No. 1 pages 15 through 19. Click here to view. - Identifier
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Part of Letter from Simon Ahaland to Isaac Leeser;March 1862
Simon Ahaland, “Letter from Simon Ahaland to Isaac Leeser;March 1862”, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/65240