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Tag Archives: synagogue
(Jewish) Prayer (Gentile Kings and Democratic Country)
This 16th prayer, of Portuguese origin, Ha’Noten Teshua (He Who Gives Salvation) was then translated into English and presented by Menasseh ben Israel to Oliver Cromwell in 1655. It became the template in traditional Jewish prayer and still appears … Continue reading
(1948) Reconstructionist Machzor (Holocaust & Zionism)
This 1948 Machzor is a neat little time capsule. Of particular interest is the names of authors and translators in the back of the text. Included below are the authors and translators to the Yom Kippur section (vol.2). Also in … Continue reading
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Tagged American Judaism, Heschel, Holocaust, Israel, liturgy, Mordecai Kaplan, Shabbat & holidays, synagogue
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A Painted Memory (Shana Tova u’Metuka)
This year during Coronavirus, alone at home with family, an apple and honey and a Machzor, this painted memory by Mayer Kirshenblatt is even more dream-like than it was last year. The memory builds upon the passage of time and … Continue reading
(Zohar Says) Burn Incense To Forge Bonds with Ein Sof (Coronavirus)
Reading around I learned something, this about the Zohar on the power of the Tabernacle-Temple incense and, today, regularly reciting the verses concerning it to stay the plague and all other demonic forces. The Zohar picks up its cue from … Continue reading
(Liberal Judaism) Virtual Synagogue (Ansche Coronavirus)
Is the future of liberal Judaism the religion of inwardness: prayer, study, and mindfulness? Will be curious to hear how participation tanks or actually ticks up a little or a lot. Every Monday, Mar 23 – Jun 29 Monday Meditation … Continue reading
Virtual Shabbat (Liberal Judaism) (Coronavirus)
Not terribly enthusiastic, I’ve been not thinking enough about the phenomenon that will be live streaming Shabbat and other tefilot and the many aesthetic choices that will matter going forward. This one conveys something to do with the aesthetics of … Continue reading
(Temple Society of Concord) The Essence of Judaism is Architecture (Syracuse)
Undergraduates at Syracuse, and elsewhere I supposed, gravitate to Abraham Geiger and Reform Judaism when we pull up to the modern period in my introduction to Judaism. They like the individualistic voluntarism that they associate with liberalism and which they … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Judaism, synagogue, Syracuse, Syracuse University
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(Violent Surge of Excellent Writing) Habakkuk (Shavuot)
Locked up tight in the liturgical reading of Scripture in the synagogue as the haftarah on the second day of Shavuot, the holiday of revelation, the manifestation of God in the third chapter of Habbakuk signals total world disaster. In … Continue reading
(Sexual Ethics & The Holiness of Home) More Domestic Judaism (The Hertz Pentateuch)
Leviticus has been a pretty dry run in the Hertz Pentateuch. You can tell Hertz is just not into sacrifice and ritual by the more or less cursory exposition of what he takes to be the plain meaning (peshat) and … Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, ethics, Judaism, sexuality, Shabbat & holidays, synagogue
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(What Are These Things) Material Judaism & Priestly Religion (Sarah Kayla Jacobs)
Yesterday at Ansche Chesed, Sarah Kaya Jacobs gave these words about some of the most arcane material in the Hebrew Bible: matters relating to the Tabernacle cult and the vestments of the High Priest, in particular. The material appears in … Continue reading
