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All the religious, knowing this great power of Art, made always appeals to the artists to help them to build temples, cathedrals, stupas, statues and images, places to build our [[strikethrough]] schoold [[/strikethrough]] souls.

Downstairs you will find some issues of those different expressions of different faiths.

I said before that every work of Art is witnessing human aspirations. The point of view of life of a Hebrew is not the same as the point of view, of, for instance, [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] a Christian. That's why a Christian church doesn't look like a synagogue. I understand very well why a cathedral has these alongated forms, [[strikethrough]] looking [[/strikethrough]] trying to go away from this earth to some celestial regions, because the christian religion teaches that this earth is a valley of tears, full of sins, that's why a christian has to aspire to the other world.

But why our synagogues have to look like Turkish baths, I could never figure our. A religious temple is always an expression of the faith of its community. It is not the other w ay around.

Let's pray that this community [[strikethrough]] deserves to give [[/strikethrough]] will have the privilege to give birth to a really Jewish Synagogue, expression of our Holy Faith, so that not only we ourselves but also our non-Jewish neighbours could have respect even from the outside, from the artistic expression, for our faith which this expression is witnessing