Machsike Hadas (Copenhagen)
Machsike Hadas (Hebrew: מחזיקי הדת, "who hold fast to the faith") is an ultra-Orthodox synagogue in the Danish capital, Copenhagen .
history
Machsike Hadas was founded in 1910 after a conflict between the then Danish chief rabbi Tobias Lewenstein and the unified community. The origins of the conflict were, among other things, the tradition of the Danish-Jewish community of accepting children of Jewish fathers into Judaism shortly before the age of bar mitzvah , even if these families did not adhere to the Jewish dietary laws . In addition, Lewenstein did not want women to convert to Judaism if they only did so out of love for a Jewish man. After an uproar in the community in which several parishioners removed the chief rabbi 's chair from the Great Synagogue in Copenhagen , Lewenstein resigned from his position as chief rabbi. He left the unified church with like-minded people and founded the Machsike Hadas exit church.
The first address of the exit community Machsike Hadas was Nørregade 7, until it moved to a rear building at Pulstervig 6 in 1916. Two years later this place was abandoned and the community moved to a private address until the synagogue (after it was again in Nørregade in the mid-1920s) found a place on Ole Suhrsgade in 1934. The building in the courtyard that now houses the synagogue was not built until 1958.
Machsike Hadas is not the first Jewish exit congregation in Denmark - a synagogue was founded in Læderstræde in 1845, which existed until the 1960s.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ machsikehadas.dk. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Histories om København's synagogue. Retrieved July 8, 2019 (Danish).