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Letter declaring professor Yitzhak Melamed persona non-grata by Rabbi Joseph Benjamin Serfaty
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English: In November 2021 Yitzhak Melamed, professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a world renowned expert on Baruch Spinoza, requested to visit the synagogue to film Melamed conducting research in the library’s archives.

Serfaty banned Melamed from visiting the community’s synagogue and library due to his research of the “heretic.” Responding to the professor in a letter, Serfaty not only forbade Melamed to film in the building but declared the professor a person non-grata, essentially even denying Melamed to participate in prayer services in the Esnoga.

"The chachamim and parnassim of Kahal Kados Torah excommunicated Spinoza and his writings with the severest possible ban, a ban that remains in force and cannot be rescinded. You have devoted your life to the study of Spinoza’s banned works and the development of his ideas,” Serfaty writes.

"Your request to visit our complex and create a film about this Epicouros [heretic]… is incompatible with our centuries-old halachic, historic and ethical tradition and an unacceptable assault on our identity and heritage,” Serfaty adds.

Serfaty concludes the letter by barring Melamed entirely from the Esnoga synagogue. “I therefore deny your request and declare you persona non grata in the Portuguese Synagogue complex,” he writes.
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Author Rabbi Joseph Benjamin Serfaty

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