President of Hungary was surprised: Jewish coins aged 800 years

President of Hungary t had not expected such a gift: Hungarian Jewish coins minted 800 years ago .

RCE delegation with Chief Rabbi David Lau and Deputy Minister of Religious Affairs Rabbi Eli Ben- Dahan , met yesterday ( Tuesday ) with the President of Hungary , Mr. Janos Edar at the palace in Budapest , in honor of Conference of European Rabbis underway in the country.

Conference Center of European Rabbis, held this week in Budapest and has been nicknamed 'the largest gathering of rabbis since Holocaust', attended by more than 300 European rabbis of all departments and sectors, has aroused great interest among the people in power in Hungary.

Following this was a visit on Tuesday headed by Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi David Lau, at the presidential palace where he met the president of the Hungarian rabbi. The visit took place with Hungarian rabbis Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, Rabbi of Haredi communities Budapest and Rabbi Shlomo Kovesh Community Ami"c Deputy Minister of Religious Services Eretz Yisroel Rabbi Eliyahu Ben-Dahan and Management Center of European Rabbis, Rabbi Menachem Margolin and Rabbi Aryeh Goldberg.

During the meeting, the delegation gave the president an extraordinary gift: nine rare coins minted in Hungary 800 years ago by local Jews.
Rabbi Shlomo Kovesh said that "these coins symbolize the historical relationship between the Jews of Hungary". He added that the great conqueror "We hope and pray that as the Jews could live in Hungary dating back 800 years, so that they can live in Hungary in 800 years."

Avishai Glar from the Kedem auction house, one of the largest in the world in Judaica, located the coins for President says that "this ancient archaeological currencies. Our dating methods approximate the 13th century. What's interesting is that most of the coins with Hebrew letters. Apparently, policies that place the Jews used to indicate the first letter of their name on any exchange drowned. It is definitely a special collection. "

Hungarian President said that, " In the last 25 years (- Since Rabbi Baruch Oberlander came to Hungary) we get resurrected wonderful of European Jewry here in Budapest. Increasingly synagogues, schools and Talmud Torahs, activities with young people and youth, university Judaism, establishing of slaughterhouses and more. "

Jewish settlement regions which are now the State of Hungary began in the first century AD when the king who ruled the area, could the Jews who helped him fight the Romans to settle in his country.

Historical references to the first Jewish settlement in Hungary can be found in 960 AD Jewish minister's letter to Hasdai Ibn Sprat Cordova Joseph King of the Khazars in which he mentions the "Hungarian Jews living in the country."

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