Letter from Hartogensis, B. H. to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Sep 1889
- Title
- Letter from Hartogensis, B. H. to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Sep 1889
- Date Created
- 14 September 1889
- Format
- 2 pages on 1 sheet
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 5, Folder 5
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3vt1h83n/manifest.json
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3vt1h83n
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
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- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx5FF5_10.xml
- content
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The Jewish Exponent.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
17 E. BALTIMORE ST.
Baltimore, Sept 14 1889.
Dear Dr Morais
I have to express sincerely my gratifi-cation at the noble course you pursued in the cloak-maker's strike, it is so very different from the conduct of so many of the rabbis who preach so much and do so little. In my experience I have met at least one prominent minister who insists that his whole teaching and the only call for interference on his part is in the pulpit and school, and I know many others who act as if they think they thought the in the same manner. "My father has always taught me to look on the passage you shall surely rebuke your brother that you do not bring sin in him" as a triple injunction that for evangelical work among our own co-religionists. If however it should not be have that meaning it certainly means that we all must take a share in cor-recting public morals by seeing through the individuals and not as the rabbi above referred to who believes that the only time he can dare endeavor to change an individual's opinion is when he is called on asked by him to do so. I would we were all in a position to carry out the Mosaic injunction, even if we exchanged the meaning "rebuke" for "reprove"; but if
we the lay men can not or will not do so, I certainly think that the communal heads must represent us therein.
Besides the practical carrying out of the law I referred to, which I see in your excellent work just finished, I rejoice that you have been able to do so much for suffering humanity, that a representative of traditional Judaism was able to show the practical results of his belief on human endeavor despite the greater protestations of "liberality" by those who have abjured so many of our religion's principles. In wishing you then a New Year and all the good things that God vouchsafes to his beloved, I hope He may grant you a long lease of life and many opportunities to continue your many labors for the benefit of our religion and to bring honor to your self and our community as well as relief by similar efforts as those put forth in the recent strike; also that you may continue to find emulators in rabbis of your conception of Gimiluth Chesed as I notice you beg in to have already
I also want to say that it is a great tribute to your inspiring teachings that two of your pupils should be in-vited to come to our city to occupy a prominent pulpit in a great occasion and that a third one (Dr Adler) is an or-nament to our city & our community--and best of all to our religion
My kindest regards & compliments of the season to your son Henry and to your family Yours Truly B. H Hartogensis - Identifier
- p3vt1h83n
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- SMBx5FF5_10
Part of Letter from Hartogensis, B. H. to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Sep 1889
Hartogensis, B. H. and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Hartogensis, B. H. to Morais, Sabato. Baltimore, MD; Sep 1889”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/86839