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6[fol. v.] 5 Concerning woman, the Mosiac Law adopts neither unbounded liberty | 6Concerning woman, the Mosiac Law adopts neither unbounded liberty nor seclusion. It doesn not bestow upon her the solemn functions of priesthood which exclusively belong to men; but on the other hand it does not permit her to live a life of asceticism, in a grave, though in the midst of society. THIS SENTENCE WAS CROSSED OUT (to live apart from the world, with the object of meditating upon heavenly things while she is upon Eart and subject to Earthly wants of feelings.) Judaism does not violate laws of nature. Thus woman has no public religious office & she will have none as long as Judaism is not undermined by rash & unreasonable changes. But a lovely graceful office is reserved for her. She is the priestess of her home it depends upon her whether or not (the house), the home become a house of prayer, scred, inviolable, (a house in which our religious observances are sincerely adhered to a house), in which spiritual Judaism, morality & virtue is practised. It is to you, mothers of Israel that I direct my remarks on this sacred day, tht the obnoxious leaven return not into your houses when once it has been banished. the leaven which I refer to is not the material, but that which symbolises the moral imperfections which often degace our families, those imperfections which are one of the causes of their misery, just as physical |