Inside a Synagogue
Label all the different things you can see in the synagogue.
Inside a Synagogue
English Name
Rabbi
Meeting Room
Tallit
Congregation
Kippah
School
Gabbaim
Cantor
Torah Reader
Ark
Eternal light
Hebrew
Name
Purpose
Inside a Synagogue
Answer these questions as fully as possible
1)
What is the symbol that is always seen around a synagogue?
2)
What does “synagogue” mean?
3)
What is unusual about the seating in a synagogue and why?
4)
What are the three main uses of a synagogue?
5)
Which way does the ark always face and why?
6)
What is the Torah?
7)
Why do people not want to touch the Torah with their fingers?
8)
What do they use instead? What is it’s Hebrew name?
9)
What is a mantle? What does it do?
Inside a Synagogue
10)
What is the purpose of the eternal light/
11)
What is a Menorah?
12)
What does it symbolise?