Excerpt from Inaugural Sermon For the third time in my life I stand to-day on the threshold of a new ministry. With this hour I enter the arena of this world-Kehillah of New York as the spiritual guide, teacher and champion of Congregation Orach Chayim. Only too well do I know the difficulty of the task I have undertaken. Although a stranger to most of you, I am yet as home-born in this city, and realize as any the larger problems at least that here clamor for solution. It is in this city where in. my earliest years the ...
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Excerpt from Inaugural Sermon For the third time in my life I stand to-day on the threshold of a new ministry. With this hour I enter the arena of this world-Kehillah of New York as the spiritual guide, teacher and champion of Congregation Orach Chayim. Only too well do I know the difficulty of the task I have undertaken. Although a stranger to most of you, I am yet as home-born in this city, and realize as any the larger problems at least that here clamor for solution. It is in this city where in. my earliest years the inextinguishable yearning to interpret Judaism and cause its children to see the ineffable beauty of their religion seized me. This yearning brought me to sit at the feet of Sabato Morais, Alexander Kohut, Marcus Jastrow and Benjamin Szold - to name but those who have gone to their eternal reward. It is over a quarter of a century ago that these great teachers in Israel, with their fellow-workers still happily with us, began the good fight on behalf of an undivided Israel and on behalf of an unbroken connection with Israel's history and Israel's traditions. The Almighty, who shapes our destinies, has so willed it that I, the first graduate of the Seminary they established, was for thirteen years to toil under other skies on a distant sub-continent, in one of the youngest of the world's Jewries. But now, across many seas have you called me to become your rabbi, and I have bidden farewell to dear friends and dearer fields of labor to help in the grappling with the religious, educational and organizatory problems which, as nowhere else in the Diaspora, are concentred in the New York community. As the difficulty, so do I feel the vast responsibility that from this moment becomes mine. It is no ordinary congregation that I am to lead further and further into Judaism. A congregation is often nothing more than impersonal combination of individuals bound together by the accident of Jewish birth and the willingness to pay a certain fee for synagogue purposes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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