Synagogue Services

Intro must engage with the question and have Expresses Beliefs Significance to
specific detail about synagogue service community
1. 1. Synagogue as a place of prayer (other o Covenant o Prayer is
functions can be mentioned) between God communal
o Word Synagogue – place of and his people o Minyan
gathering o History and (quote)
o Important Items in the Synagogue: Tradition, Facing
Sefer Torah, Ark/Ten Jerusalem
Commandments, Eternal Lamp o Lamp reminder
of God, most
significant belief
o 10
Commandments
 basis of their
way of life or
ethical
guidelines.

2. Three different synagogue services held o Sacred texts o Create order

daily: morning, afternoon and evening. o History found in in the lives of
o Torah is read at all these services, the Torah believers
o Fundamental to o Direct their
the Jewish prayers more
tradition and a specifically
primary belief o Maintains a
o sense of
community
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3. Most significant service is that of the o God is one. The o Community
Shabbat covenant gather
o Describe (Friday evening it is o Recognising the o Play learn
welcomed) day of rest after from the
o Most widely attended is Saturday creation rabbi in the
morning o Reflect the belief sermon
o Sets the tone for the rest of Shabbat in God but o Maintain the
Jewish people make every effort to attend recreate connection
synagogue service on Holy Days significant with tradition
o Rosh Hashanah historical o Days of
o Yom Kippur (day of atonement) development in forgiveness
o Hanukkah tradition. for
individuals
o and
communal
sins
o Hanukkah is
a celebration
of religious
freedom
o
4. Prayers: o Look at when o Significant as
o Shema the prayers are they draw the
o Yigdal said community
o Kaddish o What beliefs are closer to God;
the prayers o Refer to ways
referring to – to behave
usually that God (principles of
 is one, and the faith)
covenant o Emphasis the
o 13 principles of history
faith o Use specific
examples.
4. Clothing used in the Prayer service: o Fringes on Tallit o Men in
Tallit remind orthodox
Kippur adherents of the variant wear
Tefilin Mitzvots etc these items
to prepare
for prayer –
places them
in the frame
of mind to
pray etc