{"id":6027,"date":"2026-05-08T04:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:27:45","slug":"la-paz-bolivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/en\/2026\/05\/08\/la-paz-bolivia\/","title":{"rendered":"La\u202fPaz, Bolivia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Behar \u2013 Be\u2019hukotai<\/strong>
(\u05d1\u05b0\u05bc\u05d4\u05b7\u05e8 \u2013 \u05d1\u05b0\u05bc\u05d7\u05bb\u05e7\u05b9\u05bc\u05ea\u05b7\u05d9 \/ On the mountain \u2013 According to My statutes<\/em>)
Leviticus 25\u201327 \u2022 Haftarah: Jeremiah 32 \u2022 Pirkei Avot<\/em>, chapter\u202f5<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

God speaks \u201con the mountain,\u201d revealing laws concerning the land, rest, and social justice. He promises that if Israel walks in His ways, He will lead it forward in elevation and dignity. The prophet Jeremiah affirms that even in exile, the promise of the land endures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leviticus 26:13<\/strong>
\u05d5\u05b8\u05d0\u05d5\u05b9\u05dc\u05b5\u05da\u05b0 \u05d0\u05b6\u05ea\u05b0\u05db\u05b6\u05dd \u05e7\u05d5\u05b9\u05de\u05b0\u05de\u05b4\u05d9\u05bc\u05d5\u05bc\u05ea
\u201cI made you walk in uprightness and elevation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

La\u202fPaz<\/strong> lies in a steep valley of the Andes Cordillera, dominated by the silhouette of Mount Illimani\u202f<\/strong>[1]<\/sup>. The C\u00edrculo Israelita de Bolivia<\/strong> synagogue is widely cited as the highest synagogue in the world, located at approximately 3,650\u202fmeters above sea level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jewish presence in Bolivia is attested prior to the twentieth century (with conversos<\/em> in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries), but the community took shape primarily from 1938 onward<\/strong>, when Bolivia opened its borders to Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. According to historian Leo\u202fSpitzer<\/strong>\u202f[2]<\/sup>, several thousand Jewish refugees arrived in the country between the late 1930s and the early 1940s, laying the foundations of a structured communal life through the creation of religious, educational, and cultural institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After reaching a peak in the 1950s, the Bolivian Jewish community experienced steady emigration to Israel and the Americas. Today, only a small core remains<\/strong>\u202f[3]<\/sup>, mainly in La\u202fPaz and Santa\u202fCruz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[1] <\/sup>Illimani<\/strong> is a name of Aymara origin. Aymara, together with Spanish and Quechua, is one of Bolivia\u2019s three official languages. The name is commonly interpreted as \u201cmountain of light \/ protective spirit of light,\u201d in reference to the reflection of sunlight on its eternal snows, though other interpretations evoke the image of a luminous condor.
[2] <\/sup>Leo\u202fSpitzer<\/strong>, Hotel\u202fBolivia: The Culture of Memory in a Refuge from Nazism, Hill\u202f&\u202fWang, 1998. Estimates of the number of Jewish refugees welcomed by Bolivia between 1938 and the early 1940s vary by source; Spitzer, drawing on testimonies and contemporary documents, suggests a total that may have reached nearly twenty thousand people.
[3]<\/sup> The Times of Israel<\/strong>, \u201cIn\u202fLa\u202fPaz, Bolivia, a Symbol of Jewish Resilience,\u201d October\u202f5,\u202f2024. The article describes the current life of the C\u00edrculo Israelita de Bolivia and highlights the vitality of a community that is now small but active.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Behar \u2013 Be\u2019hukotai(\u05d1\u05b0\u05bc\u05d4\u05b7\u05e8 \u2013 \u05d1\u05b0\u05bc\u05d7\u05bb\u05e7\u05b9\u05bc\u05ea\u05b7\u05d9 \/ On the mountain \u2013 According to My statutes)Leviticus 25\u201327 \u2022 Haftarah: Jeremiah 32 \u2022 Pirkei Avot, chapter\u202f5 God speaks \u201con the mountain,\u201d revealing laws concerning the land, rest, and social justice. He promises that if Israel walks in His ways, He will lead it forward in elevation and dignity. … Continuer la lecture de La\u202fPaz, Bolivia<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6031,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6027\/revisions\/6031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebdosyna.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}