Siddur

and curiosities, so I knew I would have to wear a Kippa. An older lady did take my hand and walk me over to the table wear the Kippas were at. Told me it was tradition at their service for men to wear a Kippa. After putting on the Kippa, people started to enter the sanctuary. When I entered the sanctuary, it looked very similar to a Christian church. There were pews and prayer books on the back of the pews. The only difference was the stage was in the center of the sanctuary and all the pews were surrounding it. I took a seat in the back of the sanctuary so I could better imitate what every one was doing. On the back of the pew there were several books. I asked a gentleman next to me what each book was. This person said one was Siddur and a Torah. Siddur is the book we mostly read from for most of this service. We did open the Torah book in the middle but only for a few minutes. Each book had a Hebrew section on the right and an English translation on the left. It was explained to me that you read Hebrew opposite way than you do in English. Instead of left to right you read from right to left in Hebrew, which I found very interesting. Through out the service there was a lot of standing and sitting. Most prayers were done in Hebrew. However the readings and sermon was done in English. There was a translation projected on the screen for the prayers done in Hebrew. From prior research I thought that they would open the arch where the Torahs scrolls were kept. However, the…

and always had their shoulders covered. What I found most interesting is that in this particular synagogue many of the attendees are Holocaust survivors. I only knew that some of the people were Holocaust survivors because the person I had sitting with me pointed them out. I could not see the Holocaust markings on the people because they were covered. The service was led by a rabbi and a cantor. The person sitting next to me guided me throughout the service so that I could participate and…

considered the break-away from the Catholic Church to be problematic and most of these Puritans also had issues with the Catholic Church, thus, they had to stay away from the Church of England. These groups started meeting and they commenced their own views on things. There were a distinction and split between the Anglican tradition and the Puritan tradition. The name nonconformists became formal when the Act of Uniformity of 1662 was passed to the view of standardizing the way Christianity is…

A synagogue is a house of Yahweh, a place to feel His presence, worship and joins a community of believers in prayer. Behavior in a synagogue should be appropriately respectful. Since the synagogue is considered a house of Yahweh, it is usually appropriate to wear nice clothes. So, for the Shabbat service, I wore slacks, long sleeve dress shirt, and tie. The outside of the synagogue was modest and beautiful. Upon entering the synagogue, you arrive in a beautifully decorated gathering area. The…

Beit Tefilah - the largest prayer site at URJ Camp Newman - other Jewish teens and children were actively singing along with his every word, as though the prayers he chanted spoke to them individually. And, as we sang, the encircling nature seemed to hum and whistle along with this rabbi’s ringing voice and the ancient words he projected. It was the middle of my sixth summer at Jewish summer camp and such daily prayer had by now been engraved into my brain by habit and repetition. We then…

customs of baptism, there first communion, also the sacrament of the holy spirit, which is clarity the unity of faith of the universal. Roman Catholicism took place in the nineteenth century, when it was immigration, about 1845 the minority of population in the united states. Showing the that Americans of Catholicism decent began to change significantly and forever remain, due to the economic and social” Modernization”. The Jewish stars is a modern day universal Jewish symbol. Jew also wear a…

first place that came to mind. However, I was hesitant to approach the rabbi for permission as I did not want to be an unwelcomed interloper. After many weeks of procrastination from the fear of the unknown, I finally called the number listed outside on the sign that reads ‘Everyone is Welcome”. Rabbi Don Lansing answered the phone and I explained to him about the assignment given to the students of my Comparative Religions class. I inquired about visiting his congregation on Saturday morning to…

liturgical chant secrete songs in synagogue typically in Yiddish- the old language of Hebrew back then. Other than Hebrew - the tongue of the Bible - the language of speech and song is mainly Yiddish (Judeo-German); nowadays, English and other local languages have come to play a large role in Jewish Music of the Ashkenazi stream. Yiddish - Beginning as an offshoot of Medieval German in the 10th century, Yiddish developed as a unique hybrid of German, Hebrew, and whatever other languages Jewish…

today’s modern Ashkenazi folk music is different considering to (Eastern) European music? According to research, culturally many religious Jews who lived Europe have kept their same traditions and customs fully over a long period of time, which somehow they distinguished themselves from other European culture and religion. As a result, the music in Judaism in Europe kept alive. This religious music mostly knows as liturgical chant sacred songs in synagogue typically in Yiddish- as a unique…

part of this faith is prayer. Muslims have more They have five very important Rituals (known as the pillars of Islam) one is the Shahadah, a profession of faith. The second is the Salat, prayer five times daily. The third is Zakat alms of giving. Fourth comes Sawm, this is fasting during the Holy month of Ramadan. The last is the Hajj, that is pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. Jews also have special rituals they perform. One of them is when Jewish boys are born they circumcise them. Then…