Letter from Brace, S. C. to Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA; May 1888
- Title
- Letter from Brace, S. C. to Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA; May 1888
- Date Created
- 1 May 1888
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- 1 page on 1 sheet
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- English
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- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 4, Folder 9
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- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
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Philada. Record May 1888.
The Talmud and Dr. Morais.
Editor of The Record:
The Richmond Religious Herald of this week contains the following article, which may not be out of place if transferred to your columns. S. C. B.
THE TALMUD ON LEAVEN.
Editor Religious Herald: The French trans-lation of the Talmud by Schwab, which is in course of publication in Paris, opens vol v. with the treatise on the Passover. Amusingly minute directions are given for clearing the house of leaven in anticipation of this great annual feast. Every apartment into which leavened bread can possibly have been carried must be searched by the light of a lamp. The wine cellar must be searched, because in the course of a repast a servant may have been sent to draw more wine, and may have had bread in his hand, of which pieces may have been dropped. Search must therefore be made around and among the casks of wine, so that all such pieces of bread may be removed. But what of the wine itself? Must this be removed, as a leavened thing? There is not the slightest hing that such a thought ever came into the mind of any rabbi or casuist. In a somewhat extended discussion of minute points pertaining to the search there is no shadow of a suggestion that anyone ever raised the question of whether the wine was leavened by its own fermentation. Comment on this evi-dence is unnecessary.
The learned and highly respected Dr. S. Mo-rais, of Philadelphia, who is prominent among the Directors of the Hebrew Theological Semi-nary, established within a year or two in the city of New York, has given to the public his clear declaration that, in the view of Israelites, "the prohibition of fermentation extends no further than to farinaceous substances." In a note re-cently addressed to the writer of this communi-cation he repeats this declaration and adds: "In my native country, Italy, I habitually drank or-dinary wine"--meaning in Passover observ-ances.
The readers of the Religious Herald will have noticed that Rabbi A. P. Mendes, whom Mr. Denison consulted, does not make any objection to the imported "strictly kasher or proper wine" on the ground that it is a fermented wine (as we all know that it is), but because it is "necessarily expensive and beyond the reach of any but the affluent." No matter what substitutes are al-lowed by the Jewish teachers, the point remains unmoved that these teachers do not regard fer-mented grape wine as a leavened article.
By S. C. Brace. - Identifier
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Part of Letter from Brace, S. C. to Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA; May 1888
Brace, S. C. and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Brace, S. C. to Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA; May 1888”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/85155