Life, letters and addresses of Aaron Friedenwald . MERLE FRIEDENWALD About 1865 aJAWl/l3a3IRl 3JR3IV1 i)han Asy-. Family Antecedents. 21 from a letter which my father wrote to me under date of January1, 1888. I saw grandfather this morning and he inquired after you. Hehad a cold, he told me, and regretted very much that he could notgo to synagogue early in the morning, particularly as for the firsttime they failed to get minyan.^ Just think of it, at his age, on asleety winter morning, upbraiding himself for having neglectedwhat he considered to be a duty! It is refreshing to see a manclinging
Life, letters and addresses of Aaron Friedenwald . MERLE FRIEDENWALD About 1865 aJAWl/l3a3IRl 3JR3IV1 i)han Asy-. Family Antecedents. 21 from a letter which my father wrote to me under date of January1, 1888. I saw grandfather this morning and he inquired after you. Hehad a cold, he told me, and regretted very much that he could notgo to synagogue early in the morning, particularly as for the firsttime they failed to get minyan.^ Just think of it, at his age, on asleety winter morning, upbraiding himself for having neglectedwhat he considered to be a duty! It is refreshing to see a manclinging to duty throughout a long life, and praying for strengthto continue to do so. His ninetieth birthday was celebrated in the synagogue by animposing service, at which a number of prominent rabbis deliveredaddresses fitly commemorating his services to his people and tohis faith. He died on September 2, 1893, having nearly reachedhis ninety-first birthday. His wife had died long years before, on July 9, 1871. Her deathwas a great blow to her husband, then a man of seventy, who madea two years voyage to Europe t
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