{"id":976,"date":"2020-10-09T22:35:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michelsberg-wiesbaden.de\/blog\/rede-des-stadtverordnetenvorstehers-dr-jacob-gutmark-von-der-juedischen-gemeinde-zur-grundsteinlegung\/"},"modified":"2021-05-01T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2021-05-01T18:23:14","slug":"dr-jacob-gutmark-zur-grundsteinlegung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michelsberg-wiesbaden.de\/en\/dr-jacob-gutmark-zur-grundsteinlegung\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jacob Gut\u00admark at the Lay\u00ading of the Foun\u00adda\u00adti\u00adon Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speech by Dr. Jacob Gut\u00admark of the Jewish Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty at the Lay\u00ading of the Foun\u00adda\u00adti\u00adon Stone, May 21, 2010.<\/div>\n

Names are the link to the Almighty<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Dr. Jacob Gut\u00admark at the Lay\u00ading of the Foun\u00adda\u00adti\u00adon Stone
\n(Pho\u00adto\u00adgrapher: Oli\u00adver Hebel)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Hono\u00adred attendees,<\/p>\n

For each of us, names are more than just a tool for ever\u00ady\u00adday com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon. We use our names to express pri\u00adde and, at times, resent\u00adment toward our heri\u00adta\u00adge. For Jews, it is no dif\u00adfe\u00adrent. Even the Jews in anci\u00adent Egypt, in bon\u00adda\u00adge and dia\u00adspo\u00adra, kept their Jewish names. It has been so up to the pre\u00adsent. Her\u00adeby the pos\u00adsi\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adty was given to remain a coher\u00adent peo\u00adp\u00adle and to be wort\u00adhy of redemption.<\/p>\n

The Jewish name is for us the con\u00adnec\u00adtion to the Almigh\u00adty. Sin\u00adce, accor\u00adding to the Kaba\u00adlah, the name with its Hebrew let\u00adters sub\u00adstan\u00adti\u00adal\u00adly deter\u00admi\u00adnes the desti\u00adny of a Jewish child, the par\u00adents giving the name expe\u00adri\u00adence a pro\u00adphe\u00adtic inspiration.<\/p>\n

Jewish names reflect more cle\u00adar\u00adly than any\u00adthing else, the chan\u00adgeful histo\u00adry of the Jewish peo\u00adp\u00adle through mil\u00adlen\u00adnia of per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adti\u00adon and expul\u00adsi\u00adon,. Each new envi\u00adron\u00adment with the new lan\u00adguage and new cus\u00adtoms also had con\u00adse\u00adquen\u00adces for the choice of names. Despi\u00adte new names, the old names of the foref\u00ada\u00adthers were held on to in par\u00adal\u00adlel out of a deep fee\u00adling for tradition.<\/p>\n

A Jewish boy recei\u00adves his name at cir\u00adcumcis\u00adi\u00adon on the eighth day after his birth, a girl at the first oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty in the syn\u00adago\u00adgue. Our name is the key, also for reli\u00adgious mat\u00adters, to deco\u00addi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon of our social sta\u00adtus and role; the name can also give infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon about inner-com\u00ad\u00admu\u00ad\u00adni\u00ad\u00adty func\u00adtions. It accom\u00adpa\u00adnies us Jews from the moment we are named and until our death.<\/p>\n

The most important ele\u00adment then, men\u00adtio\u00adned in every tomb\u00adstone inscrip\u00adti\u00adon, is the name of the decea\u00adsed. After the name, the date of death is the essen\u00adti\u00adal ele\u00adment of a Hebrew tomb\u00adstone inscrip\u00adti\u00adon. The date of birth, as well as the inclu\u00adsi\u00adon of favorable attri\u00adbu\u00adtes of the per\u00adson (so-cal\u00ad\u00adled eulo\u00adgy) are not man\u00adda\u00adto\u00adry. The intro\u00adduc\u00adto\u00adry for\u00admu\u00adla \u201chere is buried\u201d and the final bles\u00adsing: \u201cHis\/her soul be bound in the bund\u00adle of life\u201d, are pla\u00adced, in initi\u00adals, as a mat\u00adter of cour\u00adse. The important func\u00adtions of a per\u00adson within the com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty are often empha\u00adsi\u00adzed. They are the basic con\u00addi\u00adti\u00adons for remem\u00adbe\u00adring a cer\u00adtain per\u00adson, to com\u00adme\u00admo\u00adra\u00adte him\/her.<\/p>\n

On that night, almost 72 years ago, here and in the who\u00adle of Ger\u00adma\u00adny, the cul\u00adtu\u00adral and social des\u00adtruc\u00adtion of Jewish life began in an unmist\u00adaka\u00adble way, and, as we know, con\u00adtin\u00adued in the fol\u00adlo\u00adwing years in a thousand times more cruel and inhu\u00adman ways.<\/p>\n

Our ances\u00adtors, inclu\u00adding the Jewish peo\u00adp\u00adle from Wies\u00adba\u00adden, took too many memo\u00adries with them to the exter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adti\u00adon or\u2013if the\u00adre was one\u2013to the grave\u2012irrevocably. They were also denied the con\u00adti\u00adnu\u00ada\u00adton of their human line, to found fami\u00adlies, to have child\u00adren. Depri\u00adved of their right to be human and Jewish, to live.<\/p>\n

For tho\u00adse who had been denied all this, the pro\u00adphet Isai\u00adah (56\/5) spo\u00adke long befo\u00adre our time: \u201cTo them I give in my house, within my walls, a monu\u00adment and a memo\u00adri\u00adal bet\u00adter than sons and daugh\u00adters; I give them ever\u00adlas\u00adting names that will never be blot\u00adted out.\u201d This say\u00ading will always be on the infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon board there.<\/p>\n

With the com\u00adme\u00admo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon and remem\u00adbrance work initia\u00adted here today, atta\u00adched to the names of the Nazi vic\u00adtims, God wil\u00adling, a monu\u00adment and a memo\u00adri\u00adal (Yad Vas\u00adhem) will be estab\u00adlished, which will not remain encoded only for an eli\u00adte. Rather, it will remain acces\u00adsi\u00adble to a wider class of peo\u00adp\u00adle fore\u00adver. It will help to over\u00adco\u00adme thres\u00adhold fears of peo\u00adp\u00adle in this coun\u00adtry, to sur\u00adren\u00adder to the memo\u00adry of the hor\u00adrors of that time, to learn from it.<\/p>\n

The names of the group of decent Jewish peo\u00adp\u00adle torn out of the city\u00adscape will bring the truth a litt\u00adle clo\u00adser, give the vic\u00adtims back a pie\u00adce of dignity.<\/p>\n

Shalom!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>

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Dr. Jacob Gutmark<\/strong>
\nMem\u00adber of the Board of the Jewish Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty Wiesbaden<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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