THE Fijian Jewish community will conduct its first-ever passover meal at Suva’s DeVos on the Park tomorrow.
The event, never being held in Fiji, would be conducted by three rabbi (Jewish spiritual leaders) who flew into the country from Australia on Sunday to be part of this special occasion.
Rabbi Heshel Mangel said while there were only 15 Jewish residents in Fiji, the message they wanted to share here was that everybody in this world needed to get along with each other and live a meaningful life.
The trio — Rabbi Chaim Gutt, Rabbi Eliezee Eckstein and Rabbi Mangel reside in Australia and have counted themselves lucky to be here in Fiji in what they described as a “very loving country”.
They are part of the Chabad Lubauitch Organisation that started in America in the late 1950s.
“We will spend Easter here in Fiji, which coincides with the Jewish passover holiday.
Mr Mangel said this program, which goes more for the Jews and also for the people who live in this world, meant that the world we live in “can be so good and sometimes can be not so good”.
“So in ensuring that we bring in so much light into this world through Him, and this means to do acts of kindness, it was important that everybody gets along with each other and unite with each other,” he said.
“While this is a very meaningful weekend for Fijians, it is an important one as well as for the Jews – passover means when the Jewish people were freed from Egypt.
“Here in Fiji, we want to reach out to all the Jewish people in Fiji as a whole, as well as everybody else in Fiji, to try to bring the light that everybody should unite together.”
The trio also brought special food for this special Passover meal.
