Letter from Joseph Abraham to Isaac Leeser;September 05, 1865 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from Joseph Abraham to Isaac Leeser;September 05, 1865

Author

Joseph Abraham

Contributor

Isaac Leeser

Location(s)

Cincinnati

Philadelphia

Format

Letter. 2 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).

Type

Letter

Language(s)

English

Has Format

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3jw87d45/manifest.json

Link to Colenda

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3jw87d45

Physical Characteristics

Unlined Paper

Manuscript

Is Part Of

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Isaac Leeser Collection

content

Cincinnati 5 Sepr 1865?
Revd I Leeser
My Dear Sir
I send you a paper called the Christian Advocate containing some remarks on the late dedication of a “progressive Jewish Temple” in this city. Should you deem those reflections worthy of any notice in your publication I have to request that you will not in any way intimate that you recd the paper from a correspondent or any thing of that kind, because it is considered here now a henious offence to do aught which may in any way reflect on Reform or Reformers, and as I am marked, I do not desire to be publicly mixed with their

affair—Hashictures? are how=ever correct & true to the letter, the denial by both the Revd professors of all that we have been taught as constituting Judaism, was complete & emphatic—Rationalism is to govern, against the words of inspiration—Miracles such as the red sea dividing to permit the crossing of Judeas ?, are also mere follies, restoration to Jerusalem & the coming of a redeemer to Israel only old fogy notions—and all the landmarks of our faith entirely gone—and not to side with these tenets is to be ostracised: for all the people are led away nearly by heresies of the day. I wish you all the complements of the season that you may be inscribed in the book of life & that the coming year may be a year of joy & happiness to you & that your labors in the vineyard may bring forth abundant & good fruits—I wish send $10 herein as I know I must be indebted to you I do not wish you to acknowledge receipt in your paper as I shall then be pointed out & I candidly tell you that for policy sake I am compelled to be at least or seem passive, tho' I never disguise my disgust & abhor=ence of the schemes of those who call themselves here teachers in Israel— With regards I am
truly yrs
Joseph Abraham Esq?

Identifier

LSKAP0135

Date

1865-09-05