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NEW YORK—During his
lifetime, Rabbi Raphael
Hayim Isaac Carigal, a
rabbi of the 8th Century,
seemed destined for the
anonymous ranks of his con-
temporaries. Instead, he
will be welcomed to his spir-
itual home this spring,
when his portrait by Sam-
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yfIrTIFY
uel King, commissioned by painstakingly translating
Ezra Stiles, first president the Latin Bible. By the
of Yale University, will be time Carigal arrived in
on festive display at The Newport, Stiles has master-
Jewish Theological Semi- ed the Psalms. Genesis,
nary of America during the Exodus, and was , beginning
month of May.
his exploration of 'the Zohar
Mrs. Richard Prouty of and other Kabalistic writ-
Holden, Mass., who donated ings, studying with a succes-
the final piece of this histor- sion of Newport rabbis. Yet
ical jigsaw puzzle, recalls none so thoroughly cap-
that the portrait had circu- tured his heart and mind as
lated in her family for gen- Rabbi Carigal, "like Joseph
erations surrounded by an of a comely aspect and
air of -neglect. Yet as a beautiful Countenance."
young child, she was capti-
It was a case of "amor in-
vated by the rabbi's kindly tellectualis" at first sight;
eyes and enormous hat, and the two men attended each
requested the portrait from others' services, studied to-
her parents upon her mar- gether, and would often be
riage. In her living room it , seen strolling on the New-
would have quietly re- port Parade, reading togeth-
mained, had not Rabbi Ar- er in the Touro Synagogue,
thur A. Chiel, a historian, or at Stiles' home.
whose own roots in the
When Carigal departed
story also begin in child- for Barbados, a correspond-
hood, been in fast pursuit of ence in Hebrew, initiated
the painting.
by Stiles, ensued until the
Spiritual leader of Cong. former's death in 1777.
Bnai Jacob in Woodbridge,
So profoundly did Stiles
Conn., Rabbi Chiel ex- appreciate his friend, that
plains, "The remarkable upon the fourth anniversary
Rev. Ezra Stiles first came of Carigal's death, a por-
into my orbit when I was trait was commissioned
11." Early love grew to ma- from the artist, Samuel
ture study, and his pulpit in King. In another com-
suburban New Haven great- memorative act, Stiles de-
ly facilitated Rabbi Chiel's clared Hebrew a manda-
research into the life and tory course for all fresh-
times of Ezra Stiles. His de- men, claiming that it would
voted research reveals a be the tongue heard in heav-
great friendship spanning en, and that "he should be
centuries of American Jew- ashamed that any of his
ish history.
pupils should be entirely ig-
The story of Rabbi Carig- norant of the Holy Lan-
al contains many surprises, guage."
not the least of which is his
Both endeavors were
birth in Hebron in 1733, beset with difficulties; the
which implies the existence language requirement was
of a Jewish community in rescinded, but after innu-
that part of the Land of Is- merable delays, the por-
rael at that time. He trav-
trait of Carigal hung secu-
eled extensively through rely in the Yale Library for
the Middle East, Europe
12 years, until 1795.
and England before coming
With Stiles' death, the
to the New World, in a fate of the picture becomes
route not unusual for the
obscured. In an apparent
itinerant rabbi of his day.
dispute with Yale over her
During a brief five month
father's papers, Stiles'
sojourn ip the bustling colo-
daughter took those belong-
nial city of Newport, R.I.,
ings deemed especially valu-
he met the Rev. Ezra Stiles
able, including the painting,
of the Second Congrega-
into her own home. Thus it
tional Church, who so
began its pilgrimage from
changed his fate.
house to house, to new
cities, while its- legacy
Stiles' own journal
faded. That the picture was
recounts his efforts to cor-
missing was not discovered
rect his language deficiency
until 1900. This spring,
by teaching himself rudi-
Rabbi Carigal's legacy will
mentary Hebrew through
be welcomed to its spiritual
- home.
By HASKELL COHEN
(Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.)
Layehudim Hoyesoh
Orah V'simcha Vsosson
Vikor."
"With the Jews was light
and joy, and gladness and
honor."
Only these ancient words
from the Megilla of Esther
and the Saturday evening
Havdala service can ade-
quately describe the ecsta-
sy and excitement that pre-
vailed in Israel on the night
of April 7 when the Tel
Aviv Maccabi basketball
five defeated Varese of
Italy for the European Cup
basketball championship,
78-77, in Belgrade, Yugosla-
via.
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The folk dance seminar,
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age, features three weeks
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New York, N.Y. 10022.
"Habit is a cable. We
weave a thread of it every
day, and at last we cannot
break it."
—Horace Mann
tuous series of eliminations,
which saw the Tel Aviv
quintet beat such teams as
the Russian Red Army,
Czechoslovakia's top team
and Real Madrid of Spain,
did the European Cup cham-
pionship come to Israel for
the first time.
Tal Brody. the young
American playing his last
year for Maccabi Tel Aviv,
led the Maccabi team in its
astounding upset victory
over Varese.
It is fitting that Brody led
the Israelis in their victory
since this is his last year of
competition. "The legs are
going on me," Brody said
in January, "and I don't
see myself playing any
more after this year."
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