ABSTRACT
Every association of men is, necessarily based upon the idea of obligation. Each of the individuals composing it owes it certain duties directly springing out of his membership. Every member of a religious community is bound to it by the ties of interest and sympathy, and, consequently, by the bond of duty also. In contributing to the support of the communal Schools the Jew will remember that Rabbins is promoting the holy and the time-honoured cause of Religious Education, with all its historic traditions and all its significance for character and conduct. The warning thus implied is addressed to every Israelite. For however obscure he may be personally, however lowly his station, he necessarily represents Judaism to his neighbours. The Jewish martyrs of olden days, who bore witness to their God at the stake, are described in the Prayer Book as having “yielded up their lives for the sanctification of the Divine Name.”.
