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to strengthen the & reinforce their own efforts in great
cause of Israel. There is an exceedingly true and appropriate saying
of the Rabbis old Jewish tea teachers that [cursive Hebrew] that no
ignoramus cannot be in the tr [ ] highest sense of the term a
religious m man, so that even in the early days of our race
they real the leaders & thinkers realized what we moderns are just beginning
to recognize, that Education is indispensable to the proper
understanding and appreciation of Religion, although it must be
confessed that the Jews were am the very first to substantiate
& verify the birth of this [ ] in their own lives. The Jew
has always been known to drink in knowledge quickly & to
place the seal of Consecration the very stamp of God upon it.
[cursive Hebrew] And then shall teach they children diligently is
one of the primary educational injunctions of the Bible -- a
law that was sanctified by Moses & later on made one
of the grandest & noblest Jewish ideals, for the Jewish father
e stood ever ready to make the most heroic sacrifices
in order to ensure a splendid education for his sons.
To him one of the highest aims of life w has always been
the not as it is maliciously and erroneously assumed