Yuval Lapide

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Yuval Lapide (* August 1961 in Jerusalem ) is a Jewish religious scholar and the only son of the Jewish religious scholar Pinchas and Ruth Lapide, who have been involved in Jewish-Christian dialogue throughout Europe for decades . After his father's death († 1997), he and his mother continue to work for his father's cause.

Life

Yuval Lapide's mother tongue, along with German, is Hebrew , unlike that of his parents, who were born and raised in German-speaking countries and who fled the Shoah to Palestine in 1938 . Yuval Lapide first came into contact with the Federal Republic of Germany at the age of eight when he accompanied his father on his reconciliation work from 1969 to 1971.

After Lapide's parents received several teaching positions as religious scholars around the world, especially in the USA and Germany, in 1974 they decided to return to Germany permanently and chose Frankfurt am Main as their new adopted home. According to the mother's statements, the decision matured with the feeling "If not us, then who, then, to enlighten the people there where the root of the evil was and where a reconciliation between Christians and Jews is needed more urgently than ever to prevent such an evil never repeat ". Yuval Lapide emigrated to Germany at the age of 13 at the side of his parents, finished his upper secondary school in Frankfurt, studied business administration at the Goethe University in Frankfurt at the request of his mother and worked for a bank for many years as a graduate in business administration. He also studied Jewish Studies .

In 1995, Yuval Lapide focused more intensively on Judeo-Christian dialogue . He wanted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who was one of the pioneers of the Judeo-Christian dialogue in Europe. Yuval Lapide then said goodbye to the banking world and studied rabbinical Bible exegesis as well as medieval Jewish philosophy and mysticism at the Jewish universities in New York , London , Paris , Strasbourg and Jerusalem . His main focus was Hasidism and Kabbalah , the teachings of which he imparted authentically in his seminars and lectures in Catholic, Protestant and free church parishes in the entire German-speaking area.

In 2010 Yuval married his wife Barbara Debora Lapide, who converted to Judaism from her Protestant background. She supports him in his work of the Judeo-Christian dialogue. They got to know each other through his seminar paper. Debora was deeply convinced by the knowledge she learned through the books of her father-in-law Pinchas and through Yuval's expertise, and encouraged her to carry on the Jewish roots of the Christian faith.

Lapide likes to describe his theological work as a spiritual-theological bridge between Orient and Occident and himself as a rabbinical Bible exegete who interprets the First and Second Testaments to the "Gentile Christians" in the spirit of the great rabbinical personalities . He is always interested in showing Christians who are willing to learn, in the tradition of his father, their deep roots in Judaism, without intending to blur boundaries or even to convert.

Works

  • The heart of Kabbalah. Mystical wisdom for every day of the year. OW Barth Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-426-29198-6 .
  • There is no tree strength without root sap. The pioneering theology of three great German-Jewish bridge builders Franz Rosenzweig - Martin Buber - Schalom Ben-Chorin. Verlag Sankt Michaelsbund, 2014, ISBN 978-3-943135-24-4 .
  • Thinking with a New Heart: A Jew and a Christian Discover the Prophet Ezekiel (German) Hardcover - September 15, 2018; by Yuval Lapide (author), Christel Holl (illustrator), Beuroner Kunstverlag
  • Jewish wisdom , a Camino book from the © Verlag Katholisches Bibelwerk GmbH, Stuttgart, 2019; ISBN 978-3-96157-105-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Ruth Lapide in an interview with Henning Röhl for Bibel TV "Lauf des Lebens"
personal data
SURNAME Lapide, Yuval
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jewish religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH August 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem