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Jacob Voorsanger represented the best fruitage of the generation of European-born and European-trained rabbis who served American Jewry. Little Holland furnished but few of the significant men in the synagogue life in this country; but whatever lack there might have been in numbers, her gift of Jacob Voorsanger was so valuable as to make it good. From his Dutch environment, Voorsanger brought for his work an evenness of judgment, a clearness of vision, and an exaltation of view-point, associated with practical common sense, which balanced his warm Jewish temperament to a nicety.
His thorough early training in the traditional literature of the Jew remained one of the fundamental facts of his thinking throughout his life. His love for this literature - the mirror of the Jewish soul - never waned. He remained a student in this field as well as in other branches to the very day of his death. His mind, vigorous and splendid by nature, retained its receptivity to the very end, indicative that though he grew old in years, he remained young in spirit. Yet whatever he added to his mental and spiritual equipment, he remained the tradition-loving Jew. In conversation, he once contrasted his position with that of certain other leaders in American Jewish life. He held that n. n. was a Jew, primarily, philosophically, but that he was such traditionally; and he then went on to compare the power of transmission of the Jewish ideal along these two lines. An ardent Reformer - in fact, the trammels of European orthodoxy sent him to America - he never lost sight of the value of the tradition for modem Jewish problems and their solution.
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