A Visit To A Jewish Synagogue

A Visit To A Judaic SynagogueJudaism is the oldest and one of the most practiced righteousnesss in the world. It was originated when perfection c onlyed Abraham and ordered him to take his hatful to Canaan, the Promised Land. There, it was signed like an agreement among God and the Jews because they were the chosen people to extend the law of God. It is considered Abraham the father of the Jews and Christians, because he descended from the Jewish people. another(prenominal) all important(p) descendant in the origin of the religion was Moses, who were handed the tables of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai.The source of the Jewish belief is divine in revelation contained in the Torah. It is also a go through of living. Judaism also has very complex purity laws of food. It is on the wholeow to eat all plant products, terrestrial animals if they ar all ruminants with cloven-hoofed with the exception of the pork, the h be, the camel, etc. Birds be also allowed, all atomic nu mber 18 permitted except the birds of prey. Also sea animals are allowed but only those fish that have scales and fins. In addition the animals must be slaughtered by an expert killer. He must followed all the rabbinic laws for killing, which require, among other things, the disgorging, for which the animal loses all his blood, food prohibit for the Jewish, and the detailed supervision of certain viscera to verify that the animal has no default to be prohibited. After that he must eliminate certain nerves and the fat. Finally, earlier cooking the meat it has to be treated with water and salt to except the last traces of blood. In addition it is important to separate at the condemnation of cooking and eating, meat products and dairy products, also maintaining separate cooking tools for to each one group.The rabbi is an expert of the study of Torah, which also has obtained the certification to exercise it. His mission is to guarantee that believer follows correctly the cult, en sure the implementation of the procedures and article of belief, interpreting, implementing and always studying the Torah. He can occupy the position of spi rite leader of a synagogue, a community or a set of them. But regardless of the position, his pledge will be determined not for reasons of hierarchy, on the contrary by the prestige given by his knowledge and recognition of it in Jewish society.The usual place of religion on the Jewish religion is the synagogue. unneurotic with the synagogue is the most important institution of Judaism. After the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem the synagogue became the center and central point of the sacred Jewish keep. It inherited many of the customs and rituals of the Temple but there were roughly of them that were prohibited because they were exclusive of the Temple, for example the prayer became the substitute for the sacrifices. Since many old age ago to the functions of the synagogue as a center for prayer, study and teac hing it also became as the center of community and place of meeting for treating all considerates of issues related to the community life. Also, in the synagogue or in its buildings there was everything necessary for the Jewish life, for example the distributor pointquarters of rabbinical court, the ritual bath, hospice for hosting travelers, among others.The religious work, established in the Talmud, has remained without basic changes along their 2,500 days of history, and only with date has suffered some extensions that vary between communities to others. In the synagogue it is held three clock a sidereal twenty-four hour period, at sunset, at sunrise and at noon, the prayers community in the presence of a minimum of ten (10) men older than bakers dozen (13) years. Besides the followers there is present the rabbi, where he reads aloud the texts of prayer.The worship prayers to God are all in Hebrew with some fragments are in Aramaic. They consist in passages of Psalms and other books of the Bible. In the service of Monday, Thursday, Satur eld and holidays it is read the Torah. In each week they read a role so the cycle of reading will be completed in the course of the year. The reading is follows by a passage of the biblical books of Prophets where they are related with the section of the Torah. During the prayer men must cover their head with any hat or skullcap. Also they cover themselves with a kind mantle of rectangular shape usually made of wool, white and piquant stripes or black.Within the festive calendar the most important institution of Judaism is the sabat (Saturday), which reminds each week the divine resting in the s suith day. The heavyization homeschooling starts before sunset on friday, lighting the housewife in the siemens house candelas sabbaticals on which should read the corresponding blessing. The meals, such as the rest festivities, starting with a prayer of sanctification (quids) on a cup bounteous of wine and some oth er blessing on two loaves of bread. The evening of Saturday, another sentence parallel mark the separation (habdal) between the holy day just and profane that begins it aspires the smell of spices stored in a bowl, lights a examine and drink a glass of wine, all accompanied by the blessings.Another of its festivals most famous in the Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement, which culminates the ten days of penitence of New Year (September). It is a day of reflection and contriteness in which it must save fasting. The Yom Kippur (Day of forgiveness or of atonement) is the most solemn of the Jewish calendar and with it culminates the ten days of penitence initiated with the new Year. It is a day of fasting, devoted to repentance and to ask forgiveness of sins committed against God, against himself and against the neighbor for forgiveness for the latter there to concern the damage caused, but without the repair and repentance are sufficient when the neighbor is a non-Jewish. The religious se rvice in the synagogue last throughout the day it starts with the sentence Kal nidr, in which it seeks the annulment of the votes are not met, and closes with a touch of sofar.Of the ceremonies mandatory of the life cycle, the first is the circumcision (berit mil) of the man jewish eighth day of his give and provided that the health of the newborn permits, in a sign of the alliance (berit) of the people with God, as ordered Abraham in Gen 17.11-12. In the circumcision is imposed on the pip-squeak a Hebrew name and must be performed a master key (mohel) with the necessary religious knowledge and skills. A month and a day of birth a firstborn, according to the law should devote themselves to God, performed the ceremony of pidin haben (rescue of the child) the father it is deposited in the arms of a kohn (priest) and whence what recalls delivering a sum of money symbolic.The marriage ceremony consists of two consecutive stages (a) the betrothal, with the consecration (quidusn), in which the boyfriend primed(p) in the finger of the bride gold ring, and the reading ritual of marriage contract and its provisions (cohen), among which are the obligations that the man takes on himself as a husband and compensation to be paid to women in the event of divorce and (b) the remarriage (nisun), with the recitation of the seven blessings. During the ceremony the bride and groom remain chthonian a palio (hup), which symbolizes the thalamus bridal, and the groom must break a glass placed their feet, act designed to evoke the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem.The 13 years the male jewish reaches the age of majority religious, that is, it becomes bar misv (subject to the precepts), being from then responsible for their actions. In the holding the child sits for the first time the prayer shawl and the tefiln, and is traditional to be invited to the synagogue to read in the Torah the fragment that corresponds to it.