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The object of education is not merely to enable our children to gain their daily bread and to acquire pleasant means of recreation, but that they should know God and serve Him with earnestness and devotion.

— Hermann Adler

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Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.

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