
David de Aaron de Sola
David de Aaron de Sola or David Aaron de Sola (1796 – 1860) (Hebrew: דוד אהרן די סולה) was a rabbi and author, born in Amsterdam, the son of Aaron de Sola. In 1818, D.A. de Sola was called to London to become one of the ministers of the Bevis Marks Congregation under Haham Raphael Meldola (who would also later become his father-in-law). De Sola's addresses before the Society for the Cultivation of Hebrew Literature led the mahamad (board of directors of the congregation) to appoint him to deliver discourses in the vernacular, and on March 26, 1831, he preached the first sermon in English ever heard within the walls of Bevis Marks Synagogue (all previous ones being spoken in Spanish or Portuguese). His discourses were subsequently published by the mahamad. Of his style, one observer wrote: "Though a scholar and a thinker, yet he...used the most unpedantic terms and assumed a quiet, colloquial manner.
British East India Company | British Empire | British Jewry | Colonialism | Hindustan | Mughal Empire | ocean | תחינות teḥinot | travel by water | traveler | Indian Rebellion of 1857 | 19th century C.E. | 56th century A.M.
תפלת הים | Prayer for a Seaship Voyage, or During a Storm at Sea (1837)
Contributed by Isaac Leeser (translation) | David de Aaron de Sola | Unknown Author(s) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
A prayer for those traveling over water on a sea or ocean voyage. . . .