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Jul. 22nd, 2010 01:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Is there a Jewish equivalent of church bells or the Islamic call to prayer?
A friend doing some inter-faith liturgical planning wants to know. I don't remember anything like that, but might well have missed it on account of a) arriving at synagogue slightly after most services started and b) not really understanding Hebrew.
A friend doing some inter-faith liturgical planning wants to know. I don't remember anything like that, but might well have missed it on account of a) arriving at synagogue slightly after most services started and b) not really understanding Hebrew.
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Date: 2010-07-22 01:21 pm (UTC)בָּרוּךְ ה׳ הַמְּבוֹרָךְ לְעוֹלָם וָעֶד, and the chazzan repeats בָּרוּךְ ה׳ הַמְּבוֹרָךְ לְעוֹלָם וָעֶד.
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Date: 2010-07-22 12:33 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shofar
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Date: 2010-07-22 12:35 pm (UTC). o O (Does that mean Sir Vivian Richards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viv_Richards) is qualified)?
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Date: 2010-07-22 12:51 pm (UTC)I have blown a shofar, though not in a liturgical setting.
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Date: 2010-07-22 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-22 01:30 pm (UTC)I do not know of a call to prayer.
On the other hand, the announcing of Shabbat happens in some places in .il still - in some towns it is announced with a siren (one tone siren, the sirens raising and falling are for real sirens. )
In .il also in times of one-minute silence there's a siren. (twice a year: holocaust day and memorial day)
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Date: 2010-07-22 01:48 pm (UTC)At the start of שַׁחֲרִית and מַעֲרִיב, after the "spiritual warm-up" of פְּסוּקֵי דְזִמְרָא in the former case and וְהוּא רַחוּם in the latter, there is a call to prayer: The chazzan says בָּרְכוּ אֶת־ה׳ הַמְּבוֹרָךְ, the congregation replies בָּרוּךְ ה׳ הַמְּבוֹרָךְ לְעוֹלָם וָעֶד, and the chazzan repeats בָּרוּךְ ה׳ הַמְּבוֹרָךְ לְעוֹלָם וָעֶד.
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Date: 2010-07-22 03:10 pm (UTC)The way I explain it to my Hebrew school students: you have a warm-up section, for two reasons. One is that prayer is important, and you really need to do some "stretching" and getting ready, and getting into the right mindset.
The other is that we're Jews, and we're always late for things, so you do some warm up stuff at the beginning so that everyone's there for the actual important stuff. Which, again, is marked by the Barchu prayer.
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Date: 2011-01-01 03:37 pm (UTC)