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Joseph H Hertz
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A book of Jewish thoughts: Selected and arranged by the Chief Rabbi |
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Unknown Binding |
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1937 |
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B0008CXUN4 |
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Eyre & Spottiswoode |
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Sixteenth impression |
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE JEWISH WOMAN IN the days of horror of the later Roman Empire, throughout the time of the migration of nations, it was not war alone that destroyed and annihilated all those peoples of which, despite their former world- dominating greatness, nothing remains but their name. It was rather the ensuing demoralization of home life. This is provedit cannot be repeated too oftenby the Jews; for they suffered more severely and more cruelly by wars than any other nation; but, among them, the inmost living germ of moralitystrict discipline and family devotion was at all times preserved. This wonderful and mysterious preservation of the Jewish people is due to the Jewish woman. This is her glory, not alone in the history of her own people, but in the history of the world. M. Lazarus. THE Jew's home has rarely been his ' castle'. Throughout the ages it has been something far higherhis sanctuary. J. H. Hertz. BE careful not to cause woman to weep, for God counts her tears. Israel was redeemed from Egypt on account of the virtue of i(s women. He who weds a good woman, it is as if he had fulfilled all the precepts of the Law. Talmud. THE JEWISH MOTHER JEWISH custom bids the Jewish mother, after her J preparations for the Sabbath have been completed on Friday evening, kindle the Sabbath lamp. That is symbolic of the Jewish woman's influence on her own home, and through it upon larger circles. She is the inspirer of a pure, chaste, family life whose hallowing influences are incalculable; she is the centre of all spiritual endeavours, the confidante and fosterer of every undertaking. To her the Talmudic sentence applies: ' It is woman alone through whom God's blessings are vouchsafed to a house'. Henrietta Szold, 1893. YIDDISH CRADLE SONG O! HUSH thee, my da...
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