Letter from "A Reformer" to Isaac Leeser;January 24, 1865 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title: Letter from "A Reformer" to Isaac Leeser;January 24, 1865
Author: "A Reformer"
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 24 January 1865
Location(s): Saint Thomas; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 1 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).; Letter
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3jq0tb6h/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3jq0tb6h
Physical Characteristics: Lined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: St Thomas, 24 January 1865
To the Editor of the “Occident”
Philadelphia
Dear Sir
I had the pleasure to enclose an article translated from the Curacaosche Courant of the 24th Ulto, which you will oblige me to publish.
I would further request you to answer me the following questions either by private letter or in the “Occident” as they refer to a case happening at present in our Cong:
Which do you consider of greater importance “Confirmation or Calling up to the Sefer?
Can a Minister be justified in refusing to call up to the Sefer a lad who has attained his religious Majority, because he has not been confirmed?
This Mr Editor is happening here, a boy who completed his 13th year since April 64 has not yet been called up, because he has not been confirmed. I blame the parents who blindly submit to such arbitrary decision.”
I am Mr Editor Your Most Obedt. Servt
A Reformer
Enclosed please find my card.
Identifier: LSDCBx2FF12_5
Date: 1865-01-24