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[paragraph symbol] Brethren[.] To attain that blissful end, I conceived the thought
of establishing a Jewish Theological Seminary.
It has a claim on all the faithful, on all
who wish to hear from our pulpits lessons purely
Jewish; the history of our traditions, a history
inseparable to with from the written Law; a history in
obedience of to which Israelites throughout the globe
proclaim now that the Omnipotent spoke and
nature issued forth in all her radiance, causing
"the morning stars to sing together and all angels
to shout for Joy." [paragraph symbol] The study of that history is
assiduously sedulously cultivated in the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Together with proficiency in Holy Writ, in its
language and clear sense, acquaintance with the
interpretations handed down to later ages is demanded
of youths destined to propagate the knowledge
of the Law. Befre their minds the evolution of
ideas enunciated by a Ben Pakoda, a Saadia,
a Judah Hallevi, an Albo, is are clearly unfolded. Scholars
must the graduates be, but Jews in their their every of fibre,.
[paragraph symbol] I promise that the lips of the priests that shall
have imbibed Knowledge in the institution, in
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The quotation (in the lines of text now numbered 14 and 15 in the transcription) "the morning stars to sing together and all angels to shout for Joy" seems to be derived from part of Job 38:7; Rabbi Morais seems to have inserted some handwritten Hebrew between the 2 English-language lines of text which I have cited (toward the left) which I will not myself transcribe and have difficulty deciphering -- but the first 2 component Hebrew words written seem to me to possibly match the first 2 Hebrew words in the Hebrew text which I have found for the original partial verse -- at www.sefaria.org .
It seems to me that references to "Ben Pakoda", "Saadia", and "Judah Hallevi" are to Jewish scholars/authors known in English-language Jewish texts of more recent generations (at least sometimes) as "Bahya [or Bachya] ibn Pakuda" (circa 1050-1120) , "Saadia Gaon" (died 942), and "Judah [or Yehuda] Halevi [or Ha-Levi]" (ca. 1075-1141).