Discourses Argumentative And Devotional On The Subject Of The Jewish Religion Delivered Chiefly At The Synagogue Mikveh Israel In Philadelphia In The Years 5598 5601 Ie 1838 1841 V3

Author : Isaac Leeser
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330166765
Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Discourses, Vol. 3 written by Isaac Leeser and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Discourses, Vol. 3: Argumentative and Devotional, on the Subject of the Jewish Religion Delivered Chiefly at the Synagogue Mikveh Israel, in Philadelphia, in the Years 5598 5601 The kind reception which has been extended to my first series of Discourses, published four years ago, and the frequent inquiries for a continuation of the same, have emboldened me to appear again before the public with this new claimant of their favour. - The present collection is rather less than a half of the former; since various interruptions, which I need not enumerate, independently of the shorter period during which they were delivered, prevented me from speaking as often as I might have wished. It is truly to be regretted that so far public addresses on religious topics have constituted but a small portion of our devotional exercises in all the countries where the English is spoken; and I believe that it may be said without any vanity on my part, that in our Synagogue was the first attempt made for about ten years past to give religious instruction in lectures. It can easily be imagined that there are many difficulties in the way of a successful pursuit of the calling of a public teacher among our people in this country, owing chiefly to the fact, that we are composed of persons from every European nation, and that therefore to many the English language is partly unintelligible, especially as in an oration the ideas cannot be always conveyed in very simple language, without divesting the subject of all dignity. Still much might be done in furtherance of the introduction and support of teaching by lectures, if those sufficiently well acquainted with the vernacular tongue of England and America would lend their countenance, and elect either ministers capable of speaking no less than reading after the accepted mode, or appoint public lecturers in addition to the usual officers of the Synagogue. No doubt the latter method would be more in accordance with the public wants; because the Reader proper has to perform duties sufficiently laborious without having to preach when the usual service is finished, or during the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.