Reelected Chief Rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia deplores a French society "lacking dreams"

The chief rabbi of France, Haïm Korsia, was re-elected this Sunday.

He explains on Europe 1 the meaning of the mission entrusted to him for this new 7-year mandate and explains his perspective on French society and its fractures.

With, as the main message, a call to give back the sense of commitment to each French person.

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Haïm Korsia has just been re-elected Chief Rabbi of France on Sunday.

Invited from Europe 1, he explains seeing in his election "a contract of confidence" with the Jewish community and intends to fight for it as well as for the Republic.

the religious leader also believes that there is "a kind of commitment to, all together, transforming society", which materializes his election.

According to him, this role allows him to "feel the vibrations of the country".

At the microphone of Wendy Bouchard, he shares, more generally, his view of a society in "lack of dreams" which must be reinvented to reduce the fractures that cross it and restore a desire for commitment. 

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"All the cults, each in their specificity, analyze their texts, their wisdom, their human history to try to identify the mechanisms which are in operation today and how one can draw an experience from them", estimates Haim Korsia.

With his previous mandate of seven years, he considers that "what motivates our society is fear, anger, the violence of things".

Offer everyone a "contract of trust"

"When we suffer, we forget what our past was, we forget what our future is," analyzes the Chief Rabbi of France. He thus calls to "take a step aside from this anger, from this resentment". He evokes in particular the episode of the "yellow vests" and maintains "that it was necessary to hear this suffering of people who do not feel part of the photo of France which succeeds".

Especially since, underlines Haïm Korsia, it is on them "that we leaned during the pandemic: the cashiers and cashiers, the nurses, the delivery men, the garbage collectors, the personnel in the burials".

He salutes "this sum of dedication of what some have called the people of few but who are France".

He insists: "we must integrate them in order to be able to offer them a form of contract of confidence: we will improve society, for you".

Fight so that citizens do not become "indifferent to the affairs of the country"

"We are a country of debate, but we must be able to trace paths, horizons and to propose an improvement of the situation for each one", judges Haim Korsia again. Otherwise, citizens lose interest in the events, which results in abstention. However, he affirms, "if we have fellow citizens who become indifferent to the affairs of the country, then it is terrible". He therefore pleads for society to mobilize in order to "make people aware that by a vote, by a commitment, we can transform society".

According to him, empty synagogues participate in the same phenomenon and have the same general solutions. "We must find a way to give them the opportunity to feel involved in something. Everyone must be convinced that their commitment is vital for transforming society," recommends Haïm Korsia. If his election honors him, he wants to join a larger movement because "never, no one can do anything alone. It is an absolute rule of life."