The first edition being exhausted a second edition has been prepared.
There is no cause for any change in the body of the book. Religion,
both “Glaubenslehre” and “Pflichtenlehre,” are given as objectively as
possible, and the most rigid examination of all that is taught in “The
Jewish Religion,” discovered no misstatement. A few unimportant errors,
which according to the Psalmist (Ps. xix) are excusable, are rectified
in the list of Errata. Questions concerning religious principles which
have arisen in the Community since the publication have been foreseen
and dealt with according to Law and Tradition. A few notes are added in
the second edition, where further elucidations seemed necessary. There
is also appended the bibliography of text-books of Jewish Religion, an
abstract of a paper on Religious Education, read before the Jews’
College Literary Society, and the prayer which in the Spanish and
Portuguese Synagogues is offered up by the Barmitzvah when called to
the Law. The latter practice is worthy of imitation.