Letter from Morais, Sabato to Unknown Addressee. Philadelphia, PA; Jan 1888
- Title
- Letter from Morais, Sabato to Unknown Addressee. Philadelphia, PA; Jan 1888
- Author
- Morais, Sabato
- Date Created
- 8 January 1888
- Format
- 2 pages on 1 sheet
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 4, Folder 8
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p30000k32/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p30000k32
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx4FF8_1.xml
- content
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To the President and Board of Trustees of the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of New York.
Respected Gentlemen
It is not an exaggeration in which I unduly indulge, when I say that Judaism in America, never stood in greater need of support from a religious body as that which you represent, than at the present time. The love that you bear our ancestral religion, and your own discernment must arouse create in your minds, serious apprehensions, regarding the maintenance of the principles, which you have uniformly upheld. It was a deep conviction that you would exercise a blissful influence towards my carrying out an undertaking aiming at the preservation of our faith, that inspired me with courage. Nor were my hopes ill-founded, for your liberal appropriation in behalf of the Jewish Theological Seminary proved an effectual incentive.
One Year's working has strengthened my expectations that, under God, the institution for which I plead may counteract the evils-- which wrought by unscrupulous "Radicalism". So believing and praying, I ask that you will evince again the same spirit of righteous consideration, in order that the scholars now taught may receive the requisite aid, and proceed in the sacred studies meant to qualify them as future instructors in the belief which we have inherited. To know that the sp ancient and respectable body called "the Spanish and Portuguese Con-gregation" of New York, has again practically signified its approval of my efforts will occasion heartfelt satisfaction.
With the assurances of high esteem, I subscribe myself
Yours very sincerely
S. Morais
Philadelphia
Tebeth 24th 5648
January 8th 1888 - Identifier
- p30000k32
- identifier
- SMBx4FF8_1
Part of Letter from Morais, Sabato to Unknown Addressee. Philadelphia, PA; Jan 1888
Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Morais, Sabato to Unknown Addressee. Philadelphia, PA; Jan 1888”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/88998