Letter from Bernard Illowy to Isaac Leeser
- Title
- Letter from Bernard Illowy to Isaac Leeser
- Author
- Bernard Illowy
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Location(s)
- Philadelphia
- Format
- Letter. 2 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
- Letter
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- Yiddish
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3t727z3h/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3t727z3h
- Physical Characteristics
- Lined Paper
- Manuscript
- Is Part Of
- http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124516100
- content
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Yiddish
May God seek the peace of the man of his covenant I extend to him my covenant of peace. My friend, who is like a brother to me. The “Zaddick” of clean hands and a pure heart, the all-embracing wise man, our teacher Rabbi Isaac Leeser.
Honored Friend:
I have prevailed upon the trustees that it is time to send you money. No one had anything against it, but before they would pay, the people wanted to be urged on the matter, and I did not like to urge them for they might suppose I made a profit from this business, since the book cost them so very much. I should therefore very much appreciate your sending immediately a letter to the treasurers, Moses Bronner, of the firm of Bronner and Seburg?, and at the same time to me in which you earnestly demand money. In view of the fact that I had pro-mised to send you the money the first of this month. I am convinced that you will then receive the money by return mail.
I want to inform you that the organization called Harmonia, consisting of 18 of the most intelligent Jews of this town, which was organized only two months ago, sent a very handsome Purim gift to Dr. Illoway, namely a very pretty
silver cup. The outside bears a very fitting inscription and the inside was filled with a considerable sum of money. Since I am concerned with the honor and not with the sum. I keep quiet about it, but it any case I want you to know that it was no less than $150 and thus a fitting enough sum to show their appreciation of the doctor whom they made an honorary member.
I surely expect to see my Hebrew letter in the “Occident” this month, and I already have an answer to Einhorn in order to show him how unjustly he treats you, how false the charge is that original sin is a Christian idea. That may very well be but it was taken from the Jews. That sin is inherited, you may find in the Talmud, especially fre-quently in the “Ba'al Akaida.”
Yours devotedly,
Dr. Illoway
a mediaeval philosophical commentary - Identifier
- LSDCBx3FF14_21
Part of Letter from Bernard Illowy to Isaac Leeser
Bernard Illowy, “Letter from Bernard Illowy to Isaac Leeser”, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/66743