Hi Everyone! This is my professor for my Jewish Thought and Practice class, Rabbi Moshe Silverschein. He took us on a field trip to one of the synagogues that he attends. This is the 'ark of the covenant' that houses the Torah.
Well, I had turned this picture around before I uploaded it and look what happened~~can't figure out how to rotate it, sorry:( But this is Rabbi Moshe showing us how he reads the scroll, he uses a pointer because you wouldn't want your oil fingers on the animal parchment paper. He is reading is the Torah portion of the week (the Jews read a different portion weekly, and go through the entire Torah (1st 5 books of the Old Testament) each year, reading and studying it at length. After the very liturgical service,we had a Shabbat (Sabbath) dinner at the synagogue, which was really nice. Tomorrow we are going on an 11 hour bus field trip to various places, it is supposed to be cold and raining...but as Dr. Wright has informed us, that never stops us...we don't cancel
anything. Brrrrrrr...
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