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This post is about getting a rabies shot in Sibiu. It’s also about a concert in the Great Synagogue of Sibiu.
Today was the date of my fourth scheduled rabies shot. I figured I’d just go to the Municipal Emergency Hospital of Sibiu. It was big. There was a chapel on its premises and a park that looked a bit neglected.
fourth rabies shot done
At first I didn’t know where to turn to, so I went to the emergency window to ask. The problem was that I really wasn’t in any emergency. So I kept offering my spot in line to other people who looked like they needed it more. When I finally got to the window they told me to go to the infectious disease department. There, they looked at my passport for a second, then gave me the shot. Smooth sailing.
synagogues
I went to the Great Synagogue of Sibiu after this. It was closed, and the outer gates were locked with a chain and a padlock. There was also no security booth with an x-ray scanner like in the Grand Synagogue of Edirne or in the Sofia Synagogue. I wondered if this building was maybe just an empty shell, but then a lady appeared and told me to come back in the evening. There would be a concert, she said.
kora
I came back for the concert. Klaus Röhm and Stefan Charisius were playing the saxophone and the kora. It was a surprisingly elevating experience to listen to their music in the hall of the synagogue. At one point I mistakenly thought I recognized the sound of the kora from a song that I love very much.
The song was called Ana Na Ming by Salif Keita, and I had listened to it on repeat on a cold night many years ago.
pictures
getting a rabies shot in sibiu:
chapel of the Municipal Emergency Hospital in Sibiu
park in the hospital
emergency window
infectious disease department
Great Synagogue of Sibiu
padlock
Sibiu
#StandWithUkraine
concert in the Great Synagogue of Sibiu
Stefan Charisius with his kora
with Stefan Charisius
Klaus Röhm, Zeynep Özlem, Stefan Charisius
Jared
What a pleasant day! Glad you got the rabies shot over with.
The musicians look like fun, cool people to be with.
Benjamin K.
small world! Stefan Charisius was in my school!!! He looks more like his dad now, who was our handwerkrslehrer at the time!