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Spanish town is locale
for debate over Kabbalah
BY MICHAEL FOONER
Gerona (JTA) — A
Spanish rabbi who died 750
years ago is the topic of a
lively local debate that
shows signs of growing into
an international con-
troversy.
The convention involves
two names relatively little
known in the world at large:
"Gerona" and "Isaac the
Blind." Gerona, today, is an
industrial town in the nor-
theast corner of Spain; Isaac
the Blind, in religious his-
tory, was an early advocate
of the Kabbalah the
medieval system of Jewish
mysticism.
What now brings them
into a juxtaposition that has
been attracting attention
beyond the borders of Spain
is the claim that Rabbi Isaac
practiced in Gerona and
that the site of his Kabbalis-
tic activities can be iden-
tified-in that town. Thus a
"new" cultural resource and
historic landmark has been
discovered deserving -the
widest dissemination — so
it is claimed.
The leading advocate is
Josef Tarres, a Salonica
born resident of Gerona,
who says he has been work-
ing on this for 12 years. He
envisions major recognition
for Rabbi Isaac and his con-
tributions to spiritual liter-
ature. Tarres envisions also
the establishment of a
"school of Kabbalah" in the
rabbi's name to advance and
teach the master's brand of
mystical religious philos-
ophy in tht, contemporary
world.
The other side of the de-
bate is mainly expressed as
informal skepticism by
Spanish intellectuals who
Hasidim plan
$12 million
synagogue
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Jerusalem (JTA) — The
Belz Hasidim will erect
what they claim will be the
world's largest synagogue
on 1.75 acres of land in
Jerusalem. It will be built at
a cost of $12 million and,
when completed some time
in 1987, will accommodate
up to 4,500 worshippers.
Cornerstone-laying
ceremonies will be held
Sunday, with most of the
10,000 Belz Hasidic
families living in Israel
attending. Some 8,000 will
be flown to Israel for the oc-
casion on 27 special flights
by El Al.
The architect who de-
signed the synagogue,
Yizhak Blatt, said it would
be a close replica of the Belz -
synagogue in Galicia which
stood on a hilltop from 1843
until it was destroyed dur-
ing the Holocaust 100 years
later.
feel that, scientifically, the
claimed discovery is full of
holes and unanswered ques-
tions. The "opposition" is all
good-natured, however,
without the rancor often
found when experts dis-
agree.
Visitors,
especially
foreign visitors, are often
impressed, however, when
Tarres explains the historic
landmark and guides them
through the site of Isaac the
Blind's "original Gerona
synagogue of the Kab-
balah." The building itself
is reached through a very
narrow street of undoub-
tedly ancient structures in
the middle of what scholars
have . identified as an au-
thentic district of the Mid-
dle Ages.
Gerona - may be second
only to Toledo in the
amount of Jewish commu-
nity relics from the Middle
Ages actually in place, as
distinguished from de-
stroyed locations that can
be identified by records in
the archives. In the 13th
and 14th Centuries, Gerona
was a very important
Jewish community, famous
for learning and one of the
first centers of the Kab-
balist movement.
Report officials
let neo-Nazi
leave Germany
Bonn (JTA) — The
Jewish community of Lower
Saxony has accused the
West German authorities of
allowing wanted neo-Nazi
leader Michael Kuehnen to
travel freely and leave the
country despite several
warrants for his arrest is-
sued by various courts.
Michael Fuerst, a Han-
nover lawyer who is chair-
man of the Jewish commu-
nity, told reporters this
week that legal proceedings
have been initiated against
still unknown persons who
deliberately prevented the
prosecution of Kuehnen. He
said the intention is to find
out who is responsible for
the failure to arrest . him. ,
Kuehnen was inter
viewed on West German
television from Paris sev-
eral days ago and at a house
where he is staying in a re-
mote part of France. He said
he had little difficulty leav-
ing West Germany for Swit-
zerland. Asked why the
German authorities were so
lenient, he replied that
there was "some, though
limited level of understand-
ing the need to promote na-
tional elements," meaning,
presumably, neo-Nazi ele-
ments.
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