1. Jewish Synagogue
Jewish Worship

2. Shema – Hebrew
Shema Israel, Adonai elohenu – Adonai echad Ve’ahavta et Adonai eloeikah B’khol levavkah Uve’khol naphshekah Uve’khol m’odekah Ve’ahavta le’reacha Kamocha, Amen

3. Shema
Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord alone. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And Love your neighbor as yourself. Amen.

4. 7 items in a Synagogue
Mikveh – for ceremonial washing and baptism

5. 7 items in a Synagogue Mikveh – for ceremonial washing and baptism
2. Torah Closet – for holding community copy of the Scriptures – 1 copy could cost as much as a house

6. Orientation of Synagogue
The orientation of the synagogue depended on where the Torah Closet was located
Did not matter where the people entered
Before 70 A.D. – a synagogue faced some way other than East.
This was to honor Jerusalem, the Temple faced east.
After 70 A.D. – a synagogue faced toward Jerusalem, the Temple was destroyed.

7. 4th century synagogue

8. 7 items in a Synagogue Mikveh – for ceremonial washing and baptism
Torah Closet – for holding community copy of the Scriptures – 1 copy could cost as much as a house
Bema – raised stone where
reader read Scripture

9. Bema

10. 7 items in a synagogue Mikveh – for ceremonial washing and baptism
Torah Closet – for holding community copy of the Scriptures – 1 copy could cost as much as a house
Bema – raised stone where
reader read Scripture
Colonnade – pillars for roof

11. Colonnade

12. 7 items in a Synagogue
5. Chief seats – honored spots for community elders to sit
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13. 7 items in a Synagogue
Chief seats – honored spots for community elders to sit
Moses Seat – weekly Scripture reader sits here until time of reading

14. Moses Seat

15. 7 items in a Synagogue
Chief seats – honored spots for community elders to sit
Moses Seat – weekly Scripture reader sits here until time of reading
School – small room to practice reciting

16. Schools
En Gedi
Korazin
Capernaum

17. Order of Worship Go to Mikveh Enter synagogue as families
Caretaker starts the service
Stand for Shema and prayer
similar to Lord’s prayer
Bringing out Torah scroll
Silence in reverence
Dancing and singing as it is opened

18. Order of Worship Torah is read and then closed
-Solemn moment and crying
Haftarah is read – other scripture writings
Testimony given - by reader
-truth of the passage, not explaining it
Questions could be asked
Benediction
-Someone who traces their line to Aaron
Freewill gift as they leave

19. Luke 4:14-30 Jesus goes to Nazareth for Shabbat (Sabbath)
He participates in the worship service
Only those from the community could participate
He was scheduled to sit in Moses’ Seat
Scheduled reading was Isaiah 61:1-2
What did Jesus leave out?

20. What else was omitted from story?
What was the Torah reading
The schedule is very clear
Parashat Nitzatim – Deuteronomy 29:9-11
Carefully follow the terms of this covenant so that you may prosper in everything you do. All of you are standing today in the presence of the Lord your God – your leaders and chief men, your elders and officials, and all the other men of Israel, together with your children and your wives, and the aliens living in your camps who chop your wood and carry your water.

21. People’s reaction What did they think of his explanation?
They LOVED it!! Verse 22
What got them upset?
What kind of mindset did they have?
Kanah – passion, zeal, even violence?
They started the first step in stoning him
What blasphemy were they stoning him for?
He left and moved to Capernaum – Matthew 4:13

22. Next week
Parable of the Good Samaritan
Luke 10:25-37
Mark 12:28-34