Efraim Yehoud-Desel

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Efraim Yehoud-Desel

Efraim Yehoud-Desel (born June 3, 1952 in Rishon Le Zion ; as Efraim Yehoud) is a rabbi , chasan , teacher of religion and author. He is the first rabbi to be ordained in the synagogue of the Jewish community in Münster , as well as the first officially recognized religion teacher for Jewish studies in the Münster administrative district after the Shoah . Since 2005 he has a teaching position for Jewish Studies at the Philosophical-Theological University Münster .

Live and act

At the age of 7 his father Zacharia emigrated from Yemen to Israel in 1933 . The mother's family is also originally from Yemen and has lived in Jerusalem for five generations. After the chuppah , the parents moved to Rishon Le Zion , where Efraim Yehoud was born as the third of four children. His father, who ran his own company as a toolmaker, worked for the glass industry in Israel. The parents sent their son Efraim to the Jewish school "Tachkemoni" in Bat Yam and then to the yeshiva "Achusat Jakob" in Javne . He then did his military service in the Israeli Defense Army and fought in 1973 as a soldier in the Yom Kippur War . After the war, he lived in a kibbutz in northern Israel for several years . During this time he studied graphic design at the Graphic Design College in Tel Aviv . He owns several utility models in the field of product design in Israel and Germany.

In 1990 Efraim Yehoud moved to Germany, where he has since worked as a cantor in various Jewish communities in Germany. He obtained state recognition as a teacher of the Jewish religion in Nuremberg . On Shabbat Shemot (February 14, 2012), Tzvi Marx performed his semichah as rabbi in the synagogue in Münster . In May 2014 Efraim Yehoud-Desel completed an apprenticeship as a life coach at the Refuah Institute with Rabbi Joshua H. Ritchie , because he also worked in prison chaplaincy . In addition to his pastoral work for Jewish communities, he also included the presentation of Jewish life in public, holding public celebrations such as the Hanukkah festival , visiting Christian communities, religious as well as interreligious religious education as well as numerous lectures on Judaism to a wide variety of people Educational institutions.

engagement

Logo of the campaign against anti-Semitism
  • In 2005 he launched the “Initiative from Below”. The aim was to put an end to "the loneliness of the Jewish religious teacher", as I put it myself. Since there were hardly any curricula in terms of lesson preparation and there were hardly any teaching materials or textbooks available in German, the Jewish religious education teachers in North Rhine-Westphalia met regularly to discuss and coordinate questions relating to learning content such as didactics. In 2008, Efraim Yehoud-Desel pointed out the blatant shortage of Jewish religious education teachers in North Rhine-Westphalia. After the number of Jews living in Germany had risen sharply, there was no adequate school education. He himself has to look after around 250 students in ten different communities. Religious instruction could not assume anything for the students and had to start practically from scratch, since the majority - mostly immigrants from the former Soviet Union - had not come into contact with religious issues through their socialization and did not bring any religious experience with them from their parents' home.
  • When, on May 7, 2012, the Cologne Regional Court classified circumcision as bodily harm in the second instance , Efraim Yehoud-Desel asked for understanding. He pointed out the important role of circumcision in Jewish life. A covenant would be made with God. Rather, the procedure should be understood as a “vaccination” because it means “pain at the moment, but in the long term it means more benefits”, whereby he also emphasized the hygienic aspects.
  • He has been the anti-Semitism officer of the school foundation in the Diocese of Osnabrück since August 15, 2019.
  • On November 9, 2019, Efraim Yehoud-Desel launched the campaign “Together against anti-Semitism”. By wearing or attaching the designed logo, as many people as possible should profess their resistance to anti-Semitism. Numerous companies and citizens' initiatives take part, right up to the city administration in Münster, which has integrated the logo as an electronic signature under every official email.

Author activity

As an author, he focuses on the Jewish background of Chagall's world of images and describes Marc Chagall's color symbolism , which can be deciphered using the color theory of Kabbalah . To this end, he analyzes two of his pictures: "The White Crucifixion" and "King David". Especially in the picture of the white crucifixion, Yehoud-Desel shows Chagall's dense choice between Christian and Jewish motifs, which was misunderstood by both the Christian and the Jewish side. His orientation towards the community of fate of the Jewish people remains unmistakable in visual language.

“ En Masal LeIsrael , ie No luck for Israel. These words in the Talmud can be explained in two ways. On the one hand: Israel has no luck and on the other hand: Happiness has no power over Israel. For the first point of view, there is a mess in every corner of the picture; no happiness, just misery and misery everywhere. For the other point of view speaks that Israel owns the Torah and thus fate has no power over Israel. Gam su letowa (It's a good thing too) The Jews have long since internalized these words as a motto. "

- Efraim Yehoud-Desel

In the painting "King David", Yehoud-Desel shows the profound symbolism of Chagall in relation to the Torah and Talmud . Step by step, he decodes the images and shows the parallels to the artist's biography.

Publications

  • Marc Chagall's art from a rabbinical point of view - two views of images . Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-2832-4

Web links

Commons : Desel, Efraim Yehoud  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Massechet Shabbat 156, b. See note 16
  2. ↑ Massechet Mrachot 60; Massechet Taanit 21. See note 16.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Münster district in a press release from May 13, 2003  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 28, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bezreg-muenster.de  
  2. ↑ WN January 16, 2012 , accessed June 28, 2014
  3. ↑ Lecturers at the Philosophical-Theological University of Münster , accessed on March 4, 2016
  4. ↑ Entry in culture and school
  5. ↑ Jewish Community Münster ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jgms.de
  6. ^ Münstersche Zeitung of January 15, 2012 ( Memento of October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on June 28, 2014
  7. ^ WDR-Mediathek January 17, 2012 , accessed on June 28, 2014
  8. ↑ List of Coaching Graduates ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.refuah.net
  9. ↑ Rheine.de
  10. ^ Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation in Münster on November 27, 2013
  11. ^ The bell from Gütersloh on December 27, 2011
  12. ↑ westline.de from May 1, 2013 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.westline.de
  13. ^ Jüdischen Kultusgemeinde Bielefeld ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / literaturfest-bielefeld.de
  14. ^ Augustin Wibbelt High School Warendorf
  15. ↑ Kopernikus Gymnasium Rheine
  16. ^ Arnold Jansen Gymnasium Neukirchen ( Memento from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ^ Westphalian Wilhelms University
  18. ↑ Program of the ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Catholic Academy Franz-Wärme-Haus  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.franz-hitze-haus.de
  19. ^ Jüdische Allgemeine, April 6, 2006
  20. ↑ Domradio Köln from December 15, 2008 , accessed on June 28, 2014
  21. ↑ 151 Ns 169/11 - Cologne Regional Court full text (PDF; 68 kB)
  22. ↑ Recklinghäuser Zeitung of June 28, 2012  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.recklinghaeuser-zeitung.de  
  23. ^ Campaign "Together against anti-Semitism" , Diocese of Osnabrück, November 10, 2019. Accessed on February 16, 2020.
  24. ^ Together against anti-Semitism , Diocese of Osnabrück. Retrieved February 19, 2020.
  25. ↑ Münster residents design logo against anti-Semitism , WDR, October 29, 2019. Accessed on February 19, 2020.
  26. ↑ Awake against hatred , Jüdische Allgemeine, February 19, 2020. Accessed February 19, 2020.
  27. ↑ Efraim Yehoud-Desel: Marc Chagall's art from a rabbinical point of view - Two image considerations, Münster 2012 ISBN 978-3-8482-2832-4 , p. 66 and 67
personal data
SURNAME Yehoud-Desel, Ephraim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yehoud, Efraim (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli rabbi, chasan and state-approved religious teacher for Judaic studies, graphic designer and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 3, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Rishon Le Zion