Letter from Morais, Sabato to Unknown Addressee. Minneapolis, MN; Jul 1893

Title: Letter from Morais, Sabato to Unknown Addressee. Minneapolis, MN; Jul 1893
Author: Morais, Sabato
Date Created: 31 July 1893
Location(s): United States -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis; United States -- Minnesota
Format: 1 page on 1 sheet
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Language(s): English
Source: Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies; Sabato Morais Collection, Box 7, Folder 2
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Provenance: Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
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content: PUBLIC LIBRARY.
JAMES K. HOSMER,
LIBRARIAN.
Minneapolis, Minn., July 31st 1893
The book printed in Amsterdam in beautiful types and dedicated to four eminent officials in that city, is illustrated in each of its treatises by pictures indicating the subject discussed therein. Thus, by way of explanation, to signify that a treatise refers to the obligation of bringing the first ripe fruits of the Holy Land to the Temple, the picture represents men carrying their baskets, ornamented, as described in the Mishnah; the priest receiving them, and listening to the declaration of the faithful, who obeyed the ordinance, as prescribed in Deuteronomy. Every page contains the Hebrew text, which occasionally presents some slight inaccuracy, but which is generally correct. Opposite to it is a clear Latin translation, under the Hebrew and its translation, is found on one side Maimonides comment, and on the other Bartmore's exposition, which generally embodies Talmudical decisions. Surenhusius enriches the whole with pertinent and erudite remarks.
Looking further it will be observed that each volume of the six Sedarim, or orders of the Mishnah, is dedicated to different persons standing socially high, and each is prefaced by a very learned introduction written by Surenhusius. Worthy of the man is his appreciation of the treatise Aboth, or "sentences of the Hebrew Sages", which compare well with the moral sayings of Epictetus, or other authors on Ethics. Valuable and very convenient is the Hebrew and Latin Index, at the end of every volume, and much is Surenhusius to be commended for the thoroughness of his work. Not infrequently a word or a phrase in parenthesis, in the course of his version, facilitates the under--standing of the original. When consideration is made that the work was printed in 1698, one may well wonder at the excellency of its typography and the splendid state of its preservation. S. M.
Identifier: p3rf5m15h
identifier: SMBx7FF2_15

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