Letter from Morais, Sabato to Unknown Addressee. Philadelphia, PA; Undated
- Title
- Letter from Morais, Sabato to Unknown Addressee. Philadelphia, PA; Undated
- Author
- Morais, Sabato
- Format
- 2 pages on 1 sheet
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 8, Folder 13
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3pg1j743/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pg1j743
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx8FF13_20.xml
- content
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I return you [?] with many thanks. You will perceive that I have put a mark to some paragraphs which have struck me either for the depth or for the [?] of the conceptions they disclose. I compared the English with the Hebrew version, and prefer the latter, though I was unable some of the ideas seem to me to be there more clearly expressed conveyed, still I was unable to dive into the meaning of one or two of them. The third part of the work does not demand much acumen to be comprehended, but for that very reason it is likely to interest and perhaps to convince the generality of readers. Altogether I was much gratified to re-peruse a production of a coreligionist of ours, who, when he speaks as a philosopher, as a [?], or as a literali, carries with him the mind and heart of every well rightly-thinking person.
I return you also the seventh number of the Jewish Chronicle. The quotations cited in the lecture where the colonization of our people in the Holy land is argued and advocated, are correct, except in a few typographical [?]; never-theless they are individual opinions, and not as the lecturer would fain make us believe, incontrovertible authorities, for you we do not accept as dogmas every utterance of the Rabbis in the Talmudical dis--quisition, nor the single expositions of commentators touching the sacred writing. Besides, I could prove that the passages quoted, have been rendered by other Teachers
in Israel in a very different manner, and in some case, with more plausibleness. Not that I disapprove of the idea expressed by the lecturer, for, if a large number of our Brethren could carry to the holy land East the fruit of Western civilization, and elevate those, whom a despotic sway has reduced to the lowest ebb of misery, I should indeed rejoice, but it is presumptuous in any of us to lay down as facts things which entirely have been purposely concealed from every one. You remember the words of David. "These things are closed and sealed up," and our Rabbis have added the following sentence "The minds of such who continually speculate about the our final restoration, will become impaired" Let us do our duty, and leave the issue to the [?] of all events *
I trust to see you next Sabbath, and find you well I lend you the work lately issued by my learned countryman Isaac Reggio, and translated by my intimate friend M. H. Sre-ciolto. I shall not forestall you opinion of the same, but I wish that you will let me know the impression you have received in perusing it. - Identifier
- p3pg1j743
- identifier
- SMBx8FF13_20
Part of Letter from Morais, Sabato to Unknown Addressee. Philadelphia, PA; Undated
Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Morais, Sabato to Unknown Addressee. Philadelphia, PA; Undated”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/89048