Letter from Brace, S. C. to Morais, H. S. Philadelphia, PA; Oct 1881
- Title
- Letter from Brace, S. C. to Morais, H. S. Philadelphia, PA; Oct 1881
- Date Created
- 4 October 1881
- Format
- 3 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 3, Folder 1
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3cv4c980/manifest.json
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3cv4c980
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
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- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx3FF1_51.xml
- content
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At Mercantile Library--10th St.
Phil. Oct. 4. 1881.
Rev. S. Morais--
Dear Sir,
Last year I had the pleasure of calling on you, and afterwards of receiving one or two polite and kind notes.
I desire to ask you how you would translate, in Hebrew, the first word in this sentence:
"Grape-juice is not a pleasant drink until it is fermented."
Or—if one says to a child, eating grapes,--"Don't get the grape-juice on your clothes," what Heb. Word for grape-juice? What Hebrew word would have been used in the time of Isaiah?
The only answer which I have had from any good scholar is [Hebrew]. How does this accord with your views? Would you
prefer anything else? Please to favor me with your decision.
I have wished that some Heb. Scholar would write a truly thorough essay on the much discussed word [Hebrew]. I have read many arts. about it in Magazines, Dic,tionaries, and Encyclopaedias-- but I do not find these satisfactory to me. I wish to know what information can be derived from the Talmud and other books of later Hebrew. I have never been able to see, with entire clearness, what occasion the Hebrews had for such a word. For what precise mental conception did they employ the word?
I have been informed that there is, in the Talmud, evidence that the popular use differed from the Biblical; and that,
in popular use, the word was employed for fruits—as the fig.
When Zechariah said "Corn shall strengthen the young men, and [Hebrew] the maids," he felt that this was just the word to express his idea. Now what was that idea? For some reason he did not feel impelled to say [Hebrew].
The "Biblioteca Sacra" for Jan. last, contained an Article which I read with much interest, in which the Hebrew terms for the products of the vine were discussed with considerable ability. But I desire to know more about [Hebrew].
I am most respectfully
Yours,
S. C. Brace. - Identifier
- p3cv4c980
- identifier
- SMBx3FF1_51
Part of Letter from Brace, S. C. to Morais, H. S. Philadelphia, PA; Oct 1881
Brace, S. C. and Morais, H. S., “Letter from Brace, S. C. to Morais, H. S. Philadelphia, PA; Oct 1881”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/85149