Trajetória e vida do Rabino marroquino Emanuel Muyal: memórias judaicas sobre o Rav Muyal e a devoção da comunidade católica ao Santo Judeu Milagreiro

Abstract

The Amazon is a space built by several people who migrated here in the Belle Époque. There were several reasons for choosing the Amazon as a territory to start over. The Jews coming from Morocco to escape the famine, persecution, and disease affecting the Jews were here without spiritual guidance here. There were several Jewish families who settled in the Amazon River and its tributaries. Rabbi Emanuel Muyal comes from Morocco to give spiritual support to families who have been here for a long time without even rabbinic guidance. Deceased in 1910, suffering from a tropical disease, Dona Cota, who cared for the rabbi until the day of his death, began to be sought after by patients with muscle problems, the community attributed this gift as a grace granted by the rabbi. Since then, the rabbi became known as the non-canonized Holy Miracle Jew, his grave today is the target of pilgrimages of devout Catholics and Jewish honors in gratitude to his ancestors welcomed by the rabbi. For this, I use the method of life history, through the memory of members of the Jewish community and testimonials from the devotees, to better understand the posthumous tributes and the importance of their figure to the Jewish and Catholic community in Manaus, which involve different feelings, both which are inheritances of the memories of the last century.