Letter from Levy, David to Morais, Sabato. Charleston, SC; Jul 1886 · Sabato Morais Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title: Letter from Levy, David to Morais, Sabato. Charleston, SC; Jul 1886
Author: Levy, David; Morais, Sabato
Date Created: 1 July 1886
Location(s): United States -- South Carolina -- Charleston; United States -- South Carolina
Format: 2 pages on 1 sheet
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Language(s): English
Source: Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies; Sabato Morais Collection, Box 4, Folder 2
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Provenance: Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
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content: REV. DAVID LEVY,
CHARLESTON, S. C.

My dear Sir:-
Will you please inform me if you have known or heard of the custom being practised among Sephar-dic Congs., of wearing white (as shrouds) during the services of [Hebrew] With kind regards, Yrs Sincerely David Levy.
July 1st 1886.
Rev S. Morais
Phila

My Dear Sir
Though the practice of wearing white clothes like shrouds on Kippur (extended also to Rosh Hashanah) is mentioned by Spales[?] and not at all by Caro, still some of the Sephardim--specially in Eastern countries--have adopted it.
The Leghorn absolutely Sephardic, the Hazan wears on those days a suprlice over his garments, which adds to the solemnity of the service, but no shrouds or white cap.
Identifier: p3gx45d51
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