Funeral orations. Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA. Oct 1892 · Sabato Morais Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Funeral orations. Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA. Oct 1892

Author

Morais, Sabato

Date Created

1 October 1892

Location(s)

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

United States -- Pennsylvania

Format

5 pages on 2 sheets

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Language(s)

English

Source

Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Sabato Morais Collection, Box 11, Folder 7

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Provenance

Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.

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S. MORAIS,
546 N. Fifth St.
Philadelphia,

For a funeral
Oct. 23, 92
Doubtless, there are here gloomy shadows here but to my vision there appear also bright rays, even res--plendent. To part with a dear loving father, though he be aged and feeble, is a cause of dis--tress. To bid the last farewell to a dear companion, with whom we have walked through the path of life for upward of half a century, is a cause of affliction. But how greatly is the grief ap--peazed of by the consciousness of having peacefully lengthened in peace the existence—whose termination on earth we lament—by a filial and conjugal devotion, unsur--assed! The wife who could best appreciate her husband's past history in its various phases; the wife who long shared his joys and his sorrows, she who knew, how, after of a series of changes, now inspiring glowing hopes, against occasioning sad disappointments, she the wife I say, who knew how J. N, having stepped beyond the bounds generally assigned to mortality, needed every comfort which unremmitting attention can procure,

must feel unutterably consoledion at the contempla--tion of all that she did to prolong the his days of her husbands in ease and calm repose. And the daughters—and I humbly crave not to be considered offensively partial—the daughters of J. N. who, as it is but natural, associated most intimately in home life with their patriarchal parent; the daughters carry in the depth of their hearts a source of exhaustless consolation. They have illus--trated the fifth commandment of the Decalogue beauti-fully, for they brought to bear on the performance of the Divine injunction industry and watchful care, sooth-ing consideration, and the refinement of culture. When I open the book of Proverbs, which to my mind, contains the quintessence of ethical teaching, I can read the inspi--ration of its author, as he uses the feminine gender to personify, wisdom and goodness. For, without disparaging the masculine male sex, recognizing on the contrary, the incalculable advantages derived from from those belonging to the male sex, men's exertions advantages of social, political and religious character, I am never--theless impelled to extol woman's virtues that heighten man's burdens by sharing them unmurmuringly,

and remove the weight of business troubles by gentle counsel and self denying affection.
Happy was my venerable coreligionist in having the enjoyment of such surroundings at all times, but specially during a stage of existence, when we stand most in need of tokens of love that sweeten the soul. I verily believe that if the lips now sealed in death could move and speak again as in the days of old, they would utter breathe words of recognition and of blessing. They would tell wife and children that to indulge in lamentations is ingratitude to God, that the bereaved should, in this instance, give thanks to the Almighty for having endowed them with a full measure of praiseworthy qualities, with a vast capacity to make the protracted winter of his a good father & husband's life as bright and gladsome as, under cir--cumstances, could be possibly rendered. I, inter--preting the sentiments of the imparadised departed, exhort the mourners to look up serenely—I need not say resignedly—upon this terrestrial separation; to cling together, as always, in unbroken attachment and mutual devotion, supported by consolatory piety, joyful in the belief that when our flesh moulders in the grave, God

is still our spiritual Redeemer Protector and sole Saviour.
Gracious art Thou O God Lord and most compassion--ate. Thou didst vouchsafe to make Thy servant J N the recipient of Thy signal favors in his declining years, that he might be compensated for sore trials which he bore in earlier days. We acknowledge Thy heavenly benefactions. Grant that those who experience a void in their midst, through the decease of a cherished husband and a father, may be upheld by Thy mercy and strengthened in their endea--vours to still obey Thy revealed will. Com--fort the sorrowful everywhere, and teach us all to lean upon Thee for support, when we feel as if ready to fall under burdens of trials, disappointments and sorrows. Pardon our sins, as Thou wilt for--give the trespasses of our brother, whose spirit soul has been ushered before Thy presence. And hasten the time in which the promise of Thy prophet will be fulfilled. “The Lord God will wipe off the tears from all eyes, and the reproach of His people He will take away from all the earth.” Amen

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