Excerpt from Judaism: Its Doctrines and Duties
5. Therefore Judaism is the religion of the future generations, as it was the teacher of the past ones.
As a text-book for self-instruction, it explains itself. It gives an answer to every query at the bottom of the pages, and the answers I believe to be as clear as they are concise. I can only advise the reader to have the Bible before himself, while he reads this book, and to appeal to his own judgment, not to his prejudices, to decide whether the author has been guided by Sacred Scriptures.
As a text-book for teachers and pupils, some special remarks might be proper. I believe that the Bible, to be taken out of the public schools, must remain the principal text-book of the religious school, and this is to be treated as a guide to a proper understanding and classification of the Scriptural doctrines and law. Furthermore, I believe that the Hebrew is essential to the preservation of Judaism in its purity, and a correct understanding of the Bible. Therefore the Hebrew language must be the principal study in Hebrew religious schools, to occupy two-thirds of the time; and the balance to be equally divided between Catechism and History, so that most of this time be given to History in the first three years, and in the last two or three years to the Catechism. In schools of five divisions, this book is to be used thus:
1st Division. The Scriptural passages added to the paragraphs, to be memorized, and to be the basis of one weekly conversation on religion between teacher and pupils.
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