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Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Hebrew: רודף שלום, lit. 'Pursuer of Peace'), is an historic Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Established in 1795, it is the oldest Ashkenazic synagogue in the Western Hemisphere. It is noted historically for its ...
v. t. e. In Judaism, a minyan (Hebrew: מניין \ מִנְיָן mīnyān [minˈjan], lit. (noun) count, number; pl. מניינים \ מִנְיָנִים mīnyānīm [minjaˈnim]) is the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations. In more traditional streams of Judaism, only men 13 and older may constitute a ...
A synagogue, [a] also called a shul[b] or a temple, [c] is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans. It has a place for prayer (the main sanctuary and sometimes smaller chapels) where Jews attend religious services or special ceremonies such as weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, choir performances, and children's plays.
Place of worship for the only surviving Gnostic religion from antiquity. A place of worship is a specially designed structure or space where individuals or a group of people such as a congregation come to perform acts of devotion, veneration, or religious study. A building constructed or used for this purpose is sometimes called a house of worship.
Completed. 1980s. 2002 (after arson attack) Beit Harambam Congregation (Hebrew: בית הרמב"ם, lit. 'House of the Rambam ') is a Sephardi Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the united States. Founded in 1978, its membership is largely composed of Hebrew-speaking Israeli expatriates.
The name "Benjamin" is given various meanings by the Rabbis. According to some, is equivalent to ("son of days"), because Benjamin was born to his father in his old age (Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs, Benjamin i. υἱὸσ ἡμερῶν; Midrash Leḳaḥ-Ṭob; and Rashi, ed. Berliner, on Gen. xxxv. 18).
U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Area. 0.2 acres (0.081 ha) NRHP reference No. 93000283. Added to NRHP. April 16, 1993. [1] Congregation Agudath Shalom, also known as Agudas Sholom the Walnut Street Synagogue or the Walnut Street Shul, is an historic Open Orthodox Jewish synagogue located at 145 Walnut Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts ...
July 11, 2007 [1] The Baron Hirsch Synagogue (also Baron Hirsch Congregation), is a Modern Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 400 South Yates Road, Memphis, Tennessee, in the United States. Founded in c. 1862 – c. 1864, [2][3] the congregation underwent tremendous growth in the first half of the 20th century, emerging, in ...