Letter from Unknown Author to Fleischman, S. M. Place of Composition Unknown; Dec 1888 · Sabato Morais Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from Unknown Author to Fleischman, S. M. Place of Composition Unknown; Dec 1888

Author

Fleischman, S. M.

Date Created

13 December 1888

Format

1 page on 1 sheet

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Language(s)

English

Source

Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Sabato Morais Collection, Box 4, Folder 14

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Link to Colenda

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Provenance

Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.

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content

Rev. S. M. Fleischman
Dec. 13 1888.
My dear sir,
In justice to myself and in obedience to a sense of duty, I must answer your note just received at some length. It was due to you that I should say what I knew to be the object of Mrs. Weiss' request. To conceal it would have been to do violence to the rules that have guided me through life, and to act offensively toward one to whom was committed the best interest of a Jewish Institution. But you will permit me to say that as a teacher of our people, who will never limit himself in the discharge of what he deems his religious obligations, I could not refuse to comply with Mrs W's wish. Naturally you were to be consulted, before her boy should come to me for instruction in an observance which she evidently values (and which I have always followed--crossed out) but to withhold my services when asked in sincerity of feelings, I dared not. It would be arrogant on my part to discuss the importance of the ceremonial injunction of the Phylacteries in a letter simply penned to place myself in a right light. I may regret that we differ, the more so for reasons which your clear understanding will interpret at once, but as I disclaim any right to act in the capacity of a public mentor, I shall say nothing further. With kind regards, and good wishes for the prosperity of the Home, I remain Yours truly

Identifier

p31z42c64

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SMBx4FF14_20