Benzi Robin, Knitted News27.01.22 12:38 25 Bishvat Tishpev
Photo: Boaz Arad
History took place today (Thursday) when the Speaker of the Knesset spoke for the first time at a special meeting of the Bundestag in Berlin to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, as part of the special ceremony Mickey Levy spoke in Hebrew to members of the German parliament.
At the end of his speech, Knesset Speaker Miki Levy recited the Kaddish prayer from an arrangement that served a German Jewish boy at the Bar Mitzvah celebrations, on October 22, 1938, just before the November 38 riots known as “Kristallnacht.”
At the end of the prayer, Levy burst into tears and found it difficult to stop the excitement much from the unique class.
Courtesy of Knesset Channel
After the speech, there was criticism that Knesset Speaker Miki Levy did not say Kaddish with a kippah on his head, but it is clear that this was a mistake due to the great excitement of the class.
Levy did put a kippah on his head at the beginning of his speech when he quoted a chapter of Psalms, but at the stage of reciting the Kaddish he forgot.
Mickey Levy with a skullcap at the beginning of his speech (Photo: Boaz Arad)
“Germany and Israel Build a Bridge”
Levy: “I stand before you today, excited and full of humility, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day of commemoration of the victims of National Socialism. I am proud to represent the only Jewish and democratic state in the world – the State of Israel, in my role as Speaker of the Knesset.”
“These thickets of memory bind our nations, the Israeli and the German, together. And alongside the memory – the resurrection. In 80 years and seven days we have succeeded – the two nations, in rising from historical national trauma and rebuilding, with courage and determination.”
“Two nations that have gone through an extraordinary journey, on the path to reconciliation and establishing the brave ties and friendship between us. Germany and Israel have built a bridge that sees eye to eye the power of democracy and its importance, as well as the need to work together to maintain it, over and over again, every day.”
Ladies and gentlemen, I think that as much as we have done, we have a duty to do more. For we are required to be required to remember, to ensure its perpetuation for human eternity. But alongside memory – we are also required to build a vision from it. Based on shared values and dreams. “
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