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An American Jewish Press Feature
But there was nothing in
Rome to give Bodo the security
he was seeking.
Bodo expended much time
and thought in coming to a
decision. In 1839, he made his
irrevocable decision - he re-
nounced his baptism and• pro-
fessed conversion to Jilidaism.
He severed old ties and confirm-'
ed his new status; underwent
circumcision, allowed his hat
and beard to grow, changed his
name to Eleazar, married the
daughter of one of his Jewish
friends, and persuaded his nep-
hew to adopt his- new religion.
When the news was relayed
to the palace at Aix, the royal
family was grief-stricken. They
could not believe their protege
had acted so incredibly.
"Bodo's action created an
alarming problem which had to
be met and many attempts were
made to explain the defection,
states Professor Cabaniss. "The
most acceptable explanation,
and of course, the easiest was to
ascribe it to diabolic glamor
cast by the inveterate Enemy of
mankind. Other motives, how-
ever, were intimated: treason,
avarice and concupiscence.
"It seems not to have occured
to the Franks that there might
have been stronger, more per-
suasive, reasons." Professor
Cabaniss states that treachery
may be dismissed as an explan-
ation because Bodo never gave
expression to it. "If it is treason
to alienate oneself from that
which no longer commands re-
spect or loyalty and to associate
oneself with a more worthy and
deserving allegiance, then Bodo
was guilty."
But like most converts, Bodo
overplayed his parts. He be-
came a zealot, and in ex-
changes of letters with a
prominent Mozarabic layman
of Cordoba, he engaged in
vilifying Jesus and Mary.
In the interval between 1840
and 1847, Bodo was cited in
Frankland as the horrible ex-
ample of what might happen if
the tolerant policy of Louis the
Pious (died in 1840) toward tht
Jews was allowed to continue.
Thus there was a general drift
toward restrictive measures.
Thus his dramatic conversion
and his activities in Spain
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"Grace After Meals" is one of 24 songs appearing in "Songs to Share" by Rose B. Gold-
stein, piano settings by Reuven Kosakoff and illustrations by E. Schloss, published by
United Synagogue of America. The songs a re serialized and syndicated by American
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papers by special arrangement with the United Synagogue.
There are many important
chapters in the history of relig-
ious conversion. Perhaps one of
the most important was the
mingling of the three major
religions in Spain during the
ninth century, Judaisria, Chris-
tianity and Islamic.
Whenever this chapter is dis-
cussed,' scholars constantly re-
fer to a most remarkable man,
named Bodo. In the latter years
of the decade 820-830, Bodo
appears in history as a sub-
deacon in the Frankish court
of Aix-la-Chappelle. Born about
the time of Charlegmane's
death and the accenssion of
Louis the Pious in 1814, he came
from a noble family. It was
quite natural that from earliest
childhood he should live in the
palace of Aix and be trained in
its school. There he received the
finest instruction in divine and
humane learning afforded by
the Carolingian Renaissance.
He became a favorite of the
imperial household not only be-
cause of his bright eager mind
but also because of his facile,
blond Teutonic charm. By the
age of 18, Bodo h a d passed
through the Minor Orders, had
achieved the rank of Holy Or-
ders, and was expecting a
smooth, promising future.
But the Frankish Court of Aix
was an uneasy place, fraught
with insidious and perilous, but
achingly attractive, temptations
for a restless, virile yOuth of
appealing personality and rea-
son. Bodo preferred not to re-
sist the luxuriating dalliance of
the Court. But, states Prof. Allen
Cabaniss in the current • Jewish
Quarterly Review, the sophisti-
cated youth began to experience
a moral revulsion and a spirit-
ual upheaval. He became dis-
gusted not only with the laxity
of the palace but also with his
own excesses. He became sus-
picious not only of the mockery
masquerading as Christianity,
but also of his own unstable,
insecure faith.
By the year 838, Bodo, now
a royal deacon and about 25
years old, was approaching a
moral and spiritual crisis. But
before taking any drastic
steps, he determined to make
a supreme final effort to stab-
'Hie his Christian position-
he decided to go to. the Eter-
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worked a disservice to his co-
religionists in the Carolingian
Empire.
In 1848, the converted Bodo--
Eleazar disappeared from re-
corded history, as he was still I
trying to convert Mozarabic
Christians to Judism, out of
sincere missionary zeal to have
others find the strength and sol-
ace that he had found in his
ancient, but ever new, faith.
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The Hebretb text, Psalm 18,51, is sung at the end of the traditional Grace After Meals.
The English lyrics are based on the general theme of the Grace After Meals.
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