Letter from G. Middleman and Ansel Leo to Isaac Leeser;September 20, 1849

Title: Letter from G. Middleman and Ansel Leo to Isaac Leeser;September 20, 1849
Author: G. Middleman | Ansel Leo
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Location(s): New York City; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 5 page(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English; Hebrew
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3nc5t485/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3nc5t485
Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Wax Seal; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: New York 20th Sept. 849.
134 Elm St.
Hebrew
G. Middleman
134 Elm St.
Septr 20th 5610
Dear Sir/
I would have replyd to your request immediately upon knowing you had written but Mr DeYoung only placed your Letter in my possession yesterday—altho he mentioned to one some long time since that you had made some request for a Book or something (he could not remember) of me.

which he would inform me off In respect to the Letter, you wish of me Mr Middleman's Letter will explain—I have some other matter to communicate to you which I will attend to immediately after Hebrew in the mean time receive my best wishes for your happiness and believe me to be yours sincerely—Ansel Leo
If you wish to publish Mr Middleman's Letter I must request you will do so without extracting one word from the original otherwise neither he nor I wish to see it in print
Yours
AL
Revd I. Leeser
&c &c &c

private
Revd I. Leeser
371—Walnut St
Philadelphia

Hebrew N. Y. Sept 20, 1849
134 Elm St.
Mr. Leeser:
Mr. Leo has indeed shown me your letter, asking that he send you the letter of the Rabbi of Warsaw, and from the Bette Din with regard to the law of the *Get which was sent by post. This letter was sent by the Rabbi and the court of Warsaw to the undersigned at the address of Rev. Mr. Leo. I was the one who arranged this Get and sent it by post to Warsaw, but God forbid that I should be the cause for the stumbling of many by having this letter translated into English and published in the “Occident,” so that every wicked and ?fulous man who never studied and doesn't know what to do with a Get of this sort, nor even with an ordinary Get, hearing that a Get of this kind was written will pride himself by paying. “I, too, can do so,” and he will send a Get from a husband to his wife. The fact is that legally this woman who asked for a divorce is still
*Bill of Divorce

married and has never been divorced, because the one who arranged the divorce, knows nothing about the law governing such cases. That is why I refrain from sending you this letter to publish in the “Occident”, for I have no desire that evil should come through you and a stumbling block for Israel, so that through me illegitimate? illegitimacy should increase through me.
Your friend,
Godol Middleman
Identifier: LSDCBx1FF6_58
Date: 1849-09-20

Part of Letter from G. Middleman and Ansel Leo to Isaac Leeser;September 20, 1849

G. Middleman | Ansel Leo, “Letter from G. Middleman and Ansel Leo to Isaac Leeser;September 20, 1849”, 1849-09-20, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/69509