Scared Book Ethnography
To write my ethnography on a sacred book I choose Judaism. I went to the Temple of Israel – Reformed Jewish Synagogue. It is on South Fourth Street Wilmington, North Carolina. The sacred book they use is called the Torah. When walking into the Synagogue, it was very different then walking into my church from home, Salam United Methodist Church. My home church and the synagogue both have pews and stained glass windows and pretty much the same set up, but the way their sacred book is displayed and how it is used during worship is much different. The Temple of Israel has a little stage called the Bimah meaning “high place” with the reader’s desk and chairs. Behind the stage they hold their sacred text, the Torah. The Torah is a scroll that has been …show more content…
She told me that she was not as religious as she used to be but when she was growing up her and her parents were really involved in the Jewish Synagogue. She would go to Sunday school and they were teach her all of the stories of the Torah in a kid friendly way, as well as the Jewish holidays such as Yom Kippur. They would also have speakers come talk about the Jewish current events. On Tuesdays and Thursdays they would have Hebrew School where they would learn how to read Hebrew and all the blessings that go along with each service. A year before her Bat Mitzvah, she would get tutored to help her learn about the blessings. At her Bat Mitzvah it was her first time reading from the Torah because you cannot be asked to read from it for a service unless you have had your Bar Mitzvah. She got to undress the Torah and bring it around the room. Then she gave a blessing and read a section of the Torah aloud and after gave another blessing. After that she gave a speech in English about what the reading meant to her and then she redressed the Torah. The Bat Mitzvah marks when a girl becomes a women in Judaism, and Julia said it was a huge milestone in her
To write my ethnography on a sacred book I choose Judaism. I went to the Temple of Israel – Reformed Jewish Synagogue. It is on South Fourth Street Wilmington, North Carolina. The sacred book they use is called the Torah. When walking into the Synagogue, it was very different then walking into my church from home, Salam United Methodist Church. My home church and the synagogue both have pews and stained glass windows and pretty much the same set up, but the way their sacred book is displayed and how it is used during worship is much different. The Temple of Israel has a little stage called the Bimah meaning “high place” with the reader’s desk and chairs. Behind the stage they hold their sacred text, the Torah. The Torah is a scroll that has been …show more content…
She told me that she was not as religious as she used to be but when she was growing up her and her parents were really involved in the Jewish Synagogue. She would go to Sunday school and they were teach her all of the stories of the Torah in a kid friendly way, as well as the Jewish holidays such as Yom Kippur. They would also have speakers come talk about the Jewish current events. On Tuesdays and Thursdays they would have Hebrew School where they would learn how to read Hebrew and all the blessings that go along with each service. A year before her Bat Mitzvah, she would get tutored to help her learn about the blessings. At her Bat Mitzvah it was her first time reading from the Torah because you cannot be asked to read from it for a service unless you have had your Bar Mitzvah. She got to undress the Torah and bring it around the room. Then she gave a blessing and read a section of the Torah aloud and after gave another blessing. After that she gave a speech in English about what the reading meant to her and then she redressed the Torah. The Bat Mitzvah marks when a girl becomes a women in Judaism, and Julia said it was a huge milestone in her