Book/Printed Material Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902.
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Image 1 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF SOLOMON SCHECHTER M.A., LITT.D. (Cantab.) AS PRESIDENT OF THE FACULTY OF THE JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA DELIVERED NOVEMBER 20, 1902 NEW YORK- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 2 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PRESS OF S. S. ROSEN, 721-723 BROADWAY, N. Y.- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 4 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902.- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 5 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS OF Professor Solomon Schechter* Among the regulations relating to the benedic¬ tions which the Jew is bound to utter on various occasions there is one running thus: Dmn Dsn…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 6 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 6 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. by its own laws and moving round its own sun. It is this individualism which practically makes each man a profound and complete mystery to the…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 7 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 7 statement on my part, but even so far as my short experience goes I can safely say that New York alone could furnish us with an…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 8 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 8 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. difficulties of the Torah, and removing doubt, but also in bringing back the forcibly estranged, ar¬ bitrating between conflicting opinions, and giving peace to the world.…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 9 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 9 Methodology, and even when death was already overshadowing him spared himself not, and impart¬ ed instruction to the students of the Seminary. I am further thinking of…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 10 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 10 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. With such models of energy and conviction, of activity and saintliness, the Seminary should not be at a loss to continue the work which these great…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 11 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 11 ing or scholarship we understand a thorough and accurate knowledge of Jewish literature, or at least of parts of it. The duty of accuracy, even in…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 12 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 12 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. mistranslations mean with the student in the do¬ main of literature what lawlessness and anarchy mean to the citizen in common life. And much as we…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 13 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 13 way. All these movements are solemn facts, and they can as little be argued away by mere silence as pain and suffering can be removed from…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 14 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 14 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. God, passed upon us for allowing our inheritance— especially the Bible—to be turned over to strangers. At the same time the follies and extravagances, oc¬ casionally…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 15 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 15 total of truth, which, by the grace of God, is in a process of constant self-revelation. I may, perhaps, point out in passing, as I did on…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 16 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 16 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. slay this soul again. Unless you choose to become another Cain you must be the keeper of your brother and give him a fair hearing. You…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 17 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 17 was consumed in fire. Said R. Phineas ben Yair: “Since the day on which the Holy Temple was de- troyed the Socit and the sons of…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 18 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 18 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. reminiscences, conscious and unconscious,” while in our actions we are largely executive officers, car¬ rying out the acts passed by a wise legislation of many years…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 19 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 19 ministers, and suggestive and stimulating to them as prospective scholars. It is hardly necessary to remark that the Jewish ministry and Jewish scholarship are not irreconcil¬…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 20 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 20 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. religious tendency this Seminary will follow. I am not unaware that this is a very delicate point, and prudence would dictate silence or evasion. But life…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 21 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 21 sin. It insists upon the observance both of the spirit and of the letter; spirit without letter belongs to the species known to the mystics as…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 22 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 22 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. constant amputations if we do not wish to see the body of “Israel” bleed to death before our very eyes. We must leave off talking about…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 23 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 23 rather, not thinking; and after being equipped with a few devotional texts, and supplied with certain catchwords, will be let loose upon an unsuspecting public to…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 24 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 24 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. phrase a passage from a Midrash: “Behold now, how the voice of Sinai goes forth to all in Israel attuned to the capacity of each; appealing…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 25 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 25 and thus largely confined to the exposition and elu¬ cidation of historical Judaism in its various mani¬ festations. But as I have hinted before, not everything…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 26 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 26 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. the whole earth in Thine honor, and shine forth in the splendor and excellence of Thy might upon all the inhabitants of our world.” We can…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 27 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 27 In the famous Praise of Wisdom the Sophia or the Torah proclaims: “I am the mother of fair love and fear and knowledge and holy hope.”…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 28 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 28 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. sympathy which they evoke crowd years into mo¬ ments, and form, so to speak, portions of life in condensation. These occasions have always been controlled and…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 29 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER’S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 29 ure, and all classes of the community shared it. With regard to visiting the sick and ministering to the dying, I will only call to mind the…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 30 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 30 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. hoods had thus to disappear, and their work mostly devolves now upon the minister. But how should we approach this part of our instruction? It should…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 31 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 31 and seminaries goes. Parents and guardians still object to their sons or wards attending funerals in¬ stead of lectures. But there is also another grave consideration.…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 32 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 32 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. Thy hands I commit my spirit; Thou hast re¬ deemed me, O Lord, God of Truth.” If he felt the need of religious comfort he read…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 33 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 33 My friends, in a letter by Maimonides, addressed to the Wise Men of Lunel, there occurs a passage to the following effect: “Be it known unto…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 34 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. 34 JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA. is very nearly in extremis; while it is the West that is throbbing with life and healthy activity, which is full of men of understanding and…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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Image 35 of Inaugural address, delivered November 20, 1902. PROFESSOR SCHECHTER S INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 35 (in the world). At the root of the lofty morality of this people is a longing that is never satisfied. The true Israelite is he who,…- Contributor: Schechter, S. (Solomon)
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