Judaizmus és közösségtörténet Kecskemét rabbijainak működése történetszociológiai aspektusból
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description: Thirty centuries ago, the ruler of a long forgotten empire put some thoughts down on paper. Even after nearly three millennia, his thoughts still provide spiritual support and teach the modern man wisdom. During the ages, an adjective describing a human quality was added to the king's name. The (Midrash) has a story explaining this quality. When a young prince is born, Archangel Gavriel descends to the child to carry out the will of the G-d Almighty, Creator of the World, and asks him what he would choose, if the choice was offered: might and riches or wisdom. According to the legend, King Solomon, who later becomes a great ruler, chooses wisdom. The story ends by telling us that the All-creator awards him not only with wisdom, but also with might and riches, since he made an insightful and astute choice befitting a ruler. The first citation in my essay is based on ‘Wisdom of Solomon’. The summary is also quoted from the T'nach, the Holy Book. "A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; ...a time to keep silence, and a time to speak..." Reading through the previous pages, one could review the historical ages of the Kecskemét Jewry, the system of their society, organisation, divisions, life – and their perishing. In order to have a future, we need to be aware of the past. This striving has been a quality of the thinking man ever since the dawn of time. During the past decades, the religious and cultural life of the Hungarian Jewry has become more and more concentrated in the capital, Budapest. From the 1980s on, we can barely find a dozen bigger towns in the countryside with an active Jewish community. In the 90s, after the political system change, religions enter an era of neo-renaissance, while provincial Judaism keeps stagnating and even disappears from many settlements in regions overall the country – in the Great Plains, North Hungary, West and East Hungary. I have been in service of the community for …
abstract: Thirty centuries ago, the ruler of a long forgotten empire put some thoughts down on paper. Even after nearly three millennia, his thoughts still provide spiritual support and teach the modern man wisdom. During the ages, an adjective describing a human quality was added to the king's name. The (Midrash) has a story explaining this quality. When a young prince is born, Archangel Gavriel descends to the child to carry out the will of the G-d Almighty, Creator of the World, and asks him what he would choose, if the choice was offered: might and riches or wisdom. According to the legend, King Solomon, who later becomes a great ruler, chooses wisdom. The story ends by telling us that the All-creator awards him not only with wisdom, but also with might and riches, since he made an insightful and astute choice befitting a ruler. The first citation in my essay is based on ‘Wisdom of Solomon’. The summary is also quoted from the T'nach, the Holy Book. "A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; ...a time to keep silence, and a time to speak..." Reading through the previous pages, one could review the historical ages of the Kecskemét Jewry, the system of their society, organisation, divisions, life – and their perishing. In order to have a future, we need to be aware of the past. This striving has been a quality of the thinking man ever since the dawn of time. During the past decades, the religious and cultural life of the Hungarian Jewry has become more and more concentrated in the capital, Budapest. From the 1980s on, we can barely find a dozen bigger towns in the countryside with an active Jewish community. In the 90s, after the political system change, religions enter an era of neo-renaissance, while provincial Judaism keeps stagnating and even disappears from many settlements in regions overall the country – in the Great Plains, North Hungary, West and East Hungary. I have been in service of the community for …
author: Róna, Tamás
language: hu
keywords: BM Judaism / zsidóság
identifier: Róna, Tamás (2011) Judaizmus és közösségtörténet Kecskemét rabbijainak működése történetszociológiai aspektusból. PhD thesis, OR-ZSE.
date published: 2011-09-22
date modified: 2026-07-24T06:21:36Z
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