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Jews and Muslims in the Yerba fraternize during the commemoration of the Grib (Tunisia)
Source: EFE
aside for three days, hatred, grudges and dilemmas, thousands of Jews and Muslims will fellowship from today in Tunis, during the annual pilgrimage to the venerable synagogue in the GRIB.
Six thousand Jews, of which about a third have come directly from Israel, return to focus on Yerba , the island of the lotus eaters (those who eat the fruit of the lotus tree) in the Odyssey Ulysses, to honor one of the oldest synagogues in the world.
Yerba resides in a small community of a thousand Jews Tunisian Sephardic Jews, living harmoniously with Muslims, although this cycle of peace was broken on April 11, 2002 by an attack of the terrorist group Al Qaeda.
That day, a Tunisian named Nizar Nauar fan, crashed into a wall of the synagogue a van crammed with gas, killing twenty-one people: Fourteen German tourists, six Tunisians and a Frenchman.
The Grib is back and regain your peace of mind and during the annual pilgrimage the two monotheistic religions are a symbol that its followers can live in brotherhood, perhaps an example that could inspire the turbulent Middle Eastern landscape.
says tradition, deeply inscribed in the minds of the inhabitants of the Djerba synagogue that was built in the sixth century BC by a group of Jews 'Cohanim' (temple servants) who brought with them a stone altar and remains of a gate of the first Jerusalem temple destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.
There is another version, a most charming legend according to which, the GRIB (foreign) was built at the place where he died a young arrival at the Yerba no one knew of its origin, although presumably came from the land of Israel.
The islanders feared it was a witch and refused to accept it, so that the girl lived alone for some time in a miserable thatched hut, one day perish in the fire of the latter.
Legend has it that when people came to the smoldering remains found that everything was burnt except the body of the girl who sat next to a pristine Torah scroll.
The fact was attributed to a miracle is commemorated today.
The pilgrims have lined the walls of the building with ex-votos, and each year dozens of women have a strange ritual consists of writing a wish on the shell of an egg is deposited in a cavity.
The pilgrimage takes place 33 days after the start of Passover and one of its major aspects is the departure of the pilgrims in a procession, with the "Menara", a small hexagonal pyramid on which are inscribed the names of the original twelve tribes of Israel.
The procession moves a part of the town of Souk Houm and to shoulder for a few meters, the "Menara" is a privilege subject of previous day monetary bids for the benefit of the local Jewish community.
During the three days, Jews and Muslims dance, tearful embrace, eat and drink together. Many Jews are descendants of families who left Tunisia in conjunction with the clashes that took place sixty years ago at birth Israel.
The official interpretation of the pilgrimage is to celebrate the anniversary of the death of two rabbis Kabbalists Baal Nich Meyer, whom miracles attributed to him, and Simeon Bar Yohai, author of the so-called 'Book of Splendour', one of the major works of Jewish mysticism.
The Grib is considered the place most sacred of Jewish worship in North Africa, to the point that has come to be called 'anticámara of Jerusalem. "
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