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Our father took great pride in being 31

a member of his TA class.

He would proudly pull out his 1947

yearbook and point out the

achievements of his classmates, many

of whom had achieved greatness in

their Torah scholarship and

assumed positions of

“prominence in their respective fields.
by his Children

Morris and Miriam (Friedberg) Siegel, and the close-knit
Jewish community in which he was raised.

Judaism in General - Sabbath in Particular
The groundwork for the growth of Yiddishkeit in Baltimore
had already been laid in the early 1900s by the first gener-
ation of American-born men and women, many of whom
had sacrificed any prospect of financial gain in favor of
keeping the holy Shabbos alive.

R’ Shmuel Dovid’s parents, Morris and Miriam Siegel, z”l,

”had been at the forefront of the Adas, the grassroots initia-

tive formed after the First World War for the purpose of
fighting against the missionaries who preyed upon those
Jewish children whose parents felt compelled to work on
Shabbos. The Adas leaders provided the children with an
alternative in the form of Shabbos groups and social pro-
grams. Armed with nothing more than their passion for
Shabbos observance and their deep commitment to their
sacred cause, the young men and women of the Adas
organization created a movement whose effects are still felt
in Baltimore to this very day in the form of a thriving Torah
community, with an abundance of shuls and day schools
for boys and girls, where individuals are no longer penal-
ized professionally and financially for their Sabbath obser-
vance.

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