Synagogues on wheels in Russia
On July 18 the Jewish ethnographic expedition started off in Moscow. Within three weeks synagogues on wheels or mitzvah-mobiles will travel around Russia. During this time they will visit about 50 cities.
The first route will pass through cities in the south of Russia: Stavropol, Kislovodsk, Armavir, Sochi, Novorossiysk, Krasnodar, Taganrog, Rostov, Novocherkassk, Volgograd, Volga, Saratov, Penza and Ryazan.
The second mitzvah-mobile will go to Siberia - from Omsk via Novosibirsk and Barnaul to Bijsk, Novokuznetsk, Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo, Ugra, Tomsk, Mariinsky, Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk and Abakan.
The third synagogue on wheels will pass through Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Yoshkar-Ola, Kazan, Naberezhnye Chelny, Izhevsk, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Kurgan, Chelyabinsk, Miass, Ufa, Samara, Togliatti and stop in Ulyanovsk.
Ivolginsk Datsan
Ivolginsk Datsan, the center of Buddhism in Russia, was the only functioning Buddhist temple tolerated by the Soviet government. The 14th Dalai Lama initiated construction of the new school for monks and visited the monastery four times. At present, there are about 30 monks and 100 students.
Built in 1946, the Datsan was the residence, until 1995, of Bandido Khambo Lama (the leader of the Buddhists in Russia). The main building of the Datsan was built and consecrated in 1972.
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Limmud FSU Volga-Urals Kicks Off Today with Interfaith Dialogue
In Kazan, the capital of the Tatarstan Republic, the largest Jewish event of the year is about to begin, drawing hundreds of Jews from throughout the greater Volga and Urals area, including Kazan, Samara, Nizhny Novgorod, Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg – which together comprise the third largest Jewish concentration in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg. Today, there are some 10,000 Jews in the city.
Kazan is located 800 kilometers east of Moscow and is often referred to as the “Third Capital” of Russia, after Moscow and St. Petersburg. With a population of 1.2 million, it is the eighth most populous city in Russia. The multi-ethnic city is famous for Muslims and Christians living peacefully together and has been dubbed the Sports Capital of Russia.
In addition to a full Limmud program, Limmud Volga-Urals will be marked by a series of unique events. One of them is today’s “Interfaith Dialogue – Islam, Judaism, Christianity,” co-chaired by Chaim Chesler, founder of Limmud FSU, with the participation of the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berl Lazar, the Chief Rabbi of Tatarstan, Rabbi Yitzhak Gorelik, the head of the local Russian-Orthodox church, the Grand Mufti of Tatarstan, senior Islamic clerics and two prominent Israeli rabbis – Rabbi Menachem Hacohen and Rabbi David Rosen.
Later, participants will share in the rededication of the 100 year-old Great Synagogue of Kazan with the participation of the President of the Tatarstan Republic, leaders of the local Jewish community and the Israel Ambassador to the Russian Federation, followed by a reception at the Kazan Municipality to mark the event.
Festival participants will also enjoy the Kazan Festival of Jewish Music, jointly organized by the Jewish community and the government of Tatarstan. This is a multi-day festival of performances by different troupes, including Limmud FSU guests Hanan Yovel and the Alma Group, presenting the songs of the late Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach, to mark 90 years since his birth.
Yesterday evening, Limmud’s guests from Israel, Holland and the US, joined a conference of Chabad emissaries to Russia, taking place in Kazan.
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A synagogue (pronounced ; from Greek συναγωγή, synagogē, 'assembly', Hebrew: בית כנסת bet kenesset, 'house of assembly' or בית תפילה bet tefila, house of prayer, Yiddish: שול shul, Ladino: אסנוגה esnoga or קהל kahal), is a Jewish or Samaritan house of worship.
Synagogues have a large place for prayer (the main sanctuary) and may also have smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices. Some have a separate room for Torah study, called the בית מדרש beth midrash house of study.
Synagogues are consecrated spaces used for the purpose of prayer, Tanakh (the entire Hebrew Bible, including the Torah) reading, study and assembly; however, a synagogue is not necessary for worship. Halakha holds that communal Jewish worship can be carried out wherever ten Jews (a minyan) assemble. Worship can also be carried out alone or with fewer than ten people assembled together. However, halakha considers certain prayers as communal prayers and therefore they may be recited only by a minyan. In terms of its specific ritual and liturgical functions, the synagogue does not replace the long-since destroyed Temple in Jerusalem.
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Synagogue
00:01:12 1 Terminology
00:02:08 2 Origins
00:05:22 3 Samaritan synagogues
00:05:32 3.1 Name and history
00:06:25 3.2 Distinguishing elements
00:09:26 3.3 Archaeological finds
00:09:47 3.3.1 Diaspora
00:10:20 3.3.2 The wider Holy Land
00:10:54 3.3.3 Samaria
00:11:29 4 Jewish-Christian synagogue-churches
00:11:56 5 Architectural design
00:13:54 6 Interior elements
00:14:03 6.1 Bimah (platform)
00:14:24 6.2 Table or lectern
00:14:37 6.3 Torah Ark
00:14:46 6.4 Eternal Light
00:15:18 6.5 Inner decoration
00:16:28 6.6 Seating
00:16:51 6.7 Special seats
00:17:11 7 Rules for attendees
00:18:01 7.1 Taking off one's shoes
00:19:11 7.2 Gender separation
00:19:20 8 Denominational differences
00:19:45 8.1 Reform Judaism
00:20:04 9 Synagogue as community center
00:20:14 10 Synagogue offshoots
00:21:07 11 List of great synagogues
00:21:31 11.1 Israel
00:22:37 11.2 Europe
00:22:53 11.2.1 Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
00:23:04 11.2.2 Poland
00:23:12 11.2.3 Czech Republic
00:23:34 11.2.4 Hungary
00:23:51 11.2.5 Austria
00:24:01 11.2.6 Germany
00:24:15 11.2.7 Netherlands
00:24:33 11.2.8 Scandinavia
00:24:43 11.2.9 France and Belgium
00:24:54 11.2.10 Italy
00:25:04 11.2.11 Romania
00:25:20 11.2.12 Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia
00:25:32 11.2.13 Turkey (European part)
00:25:49 11.3 North Africa
00:26:06 11.4 Australia
00:26:17 12 World's largest synagogues
00:26:31 12.1 Israel
00:26:42 12.2 Europe
00:26:52 12.3 North America
00:27:23 13 World's oldest synagogues
00:28:51 13.1 Oldest synagogues in the United States
00:30:17 14 Other famous synagogues
00:32:15 15 Image gallery
00:32:52 16 See also
00:35:57 17 References
00:36:06 18 External links
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A synagogue (pronounced ; from Greek συναγωγή, synagogē, 'assembly', Hebrew: בית כנסת bet kenesset, 'house of assembly' or בית תפילה bet tefila, house of prayer, Yiddish: שול shul, Ladino: אסנוגה esnoga or קהל kahal), is a Jewish or Samaritan house of worship.
Synagogues have a large place for prayer (the main sanctuary) and may also have smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices. Some have a separate room for Torah study, called the בית מדרש beth midrash house of study.
Synagogues are consecrated spaces used for the purpose of prayer, Tanakh (the entire Hebrew Bible, including the Torah) reading, study and assembly; however, a synagogue is not necessary for worship. Halakha holds that communal Jewish worship can be carried out wherever ten Jews (a minyan) assemble. Worship can also be carried out alone or with fewer than ten people assembled together. However, halakha considers certain prayers as communal prayers and therefore they may be recited only by a minyan. In terms of its specific ritual and liturgical functions, the synagogue does not replace the long-since destroyed Temple in Jerusalem.
Synagogue | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:42 1 Terminology
00:02:59 2 Origins
00:07:42 3 Samaritan synagogues
00:07:53 3.1 Name and history
00:09:06 3.2 Distinguishing elements
00:13:30 3.3 Archaeological finds
00:13:56 3.3.1 Diaspora
00:14:41 3.3.2 The wider Holy Land
00:15:27 3.3.3 Samaria
00:16:15 4 Jewish-Christian synagogue-churches
00:16:51 5 Architectural design
00:19:40 6 Interior elements
00:19:50 6.1 Bimah (platform)
00:20:17 6.2 Table or lectern
00:20:36 6.3 Torah Ark
00:20:46 6.4 Eternal Light
00:21:34 6.5 Inner decoration
00:23:12 6.6 Seating
00:23:41 6.7 Special seats
00:24:07 7 Rules for attendees
00:25:16 7.1 Taking off one's shoes
00:26:53 7.2 Gender separation
00:27:03 8 Denominational differences
00:27:36 8.1 Reform Judaism
00:28:00 9 Synagogue as community center
00:28:11 10 Synagogue offshoots
00:29:25 11 List of great synagogues
00:29:57 11.1 Israel
00:31:31 11.2 Europe
00:31:50 11.2.1 Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
00:32:02 11.2.2 Poland
00:32:11 11.2.3 Czech Republic
00:32:40 11.2.4 Hungary
00:33:01 11.2.5 Austria
00:33:13 11.2.6 Germany
00:33:30 11.2.7 Netherlands
00:33:52 11.2.8 Scandinavia
00:34:04 11.2.9 France and Belgium
00:34:17 11.2.10 Italy
00:34:30 11.2.11 Romania
00:34:49 11.2.12 Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia
00:35:04 11.2.13 Turkey (European part)
00:35:26 11.3 North Africa
00:35:47 11.4 Australia
00:36:01 12 World's largest synagogues
00:36:17 12.1 Israel
00:36:30 12.2 Europe
00:36:41 12.3 North America
00:37:23 13 World's oldest synagogues
00:39:29 13.1 Oldest synagogues in the United States
00:41:29 14 Other famous synagogues
00:44:15 15 Image gallery
00:45:06 16 See also
00:49:33 17 References
00:49:43 18 External links
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A synagogue (pronounced ; from Greek συναγωγή, synagogē, 'assembly', Hebrew: בית כנסת bet kenesset, 'house of assembly' or בית תפילה bet tefila, house of prayer, Yiddish: שול shul, Ladino: אסנוגה esnoga or קהל kahal), is a Jewish or Samaritan house of worship.
Synagogues have a large place for prayer (the main sanctuary) and may also have smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices. Some have a separate room for Torah study, called the בית מדרש beth midrash house of study.
Synagogues are consecrated spaces used for the purpose of prayer, Tanakh (the entire Hebrew Bible, including the Torah) reading, study and assembly; however, a synagogue is not necessary for worship. Halakha holds that communal Jewish worship can be carried out wherever ten Jews (a minyan) assemble. Worship can also be carried out alone or with fewer than ten people assembled together. However, halakha considers certain prayers as communal prayers and therefore they may be recited only by a minyan. In terms of its specific ritual and liturgical functions, the synagogue does not replace the long-since destroyed Temple in Jerusalem.
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Synagogue | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:37 1 Terminology
00:02:48 2 Origins
00:07:11 3 Samaritan synagogues
00:07:21 3.1 Name and history
00:08:30 3.2 Distinguishing elements
00:12:36 3.3 Archaeological finds
00:13:00 3.3.1 Diaspora
00:13:43 3.3.2 The wider Holy Land
00:14:26 3.3.3 Samaria
00:15:12 4 Jewish-Christian synagogue-churches
00:15:46 5 Architectural design
00:18:25 6 Interior elements
00:18:35 6.1 Bimah (platform)
00:19:04 6.2 Table or lectern
00:19:54 6.3 Torah Ark
00:21:23 6.4 Eternal Light
00:21:51 6.5 Inner decoration
00:22:16 6.6 Seating
00:23:22 6.7 Special seats
00:24:54 7 Rules for attendees
00:25:04 7.1 Taking off one's shoes
00:25:35 7.2 Gender separation
00:25:57 8 Denominational differences
00:26:08 8.1 Reform Judaism
00:27:18 9 Synagogue as community center
00:27:48 10 Synagogue offshoots
00:29:14 11 List of great synagogues
00:29:31 11.1 Israel
00:29:43 11.2 Europe
00:29:51 11.2.1 Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
00:30:19 11.2.2 Poland
00:30:38 11.2.3 Czech Republic
00:30:50 11.2.4 Hungary
00:31:06 11.2.5 Austria
00:31:26 11.2.6 Germany
00:31:37 11.2.7 Netherlands
00:31:50 11.2.8 Scandinavia
00:32:02 11.2.9 France and Belgium
00:32:20 11.2.10 Italy
00:32:35 11.2.11 Romania
00:32:54 11.2.12 Bulgaria and former Yugoslavia
00:33:15 11.2.13 Turkey (European part)
00:33:28 11.3 North Africa
00:33:43 11.4 Australia
00:33:55 12 World's largest synagogues
00:34:06 12.1 Israel
00:34:46 12.2 Europe
00:36:50 12.3 North America
00:38:41 13 World's oldest synagogues
00:41:18 13.1 Oldest synagogues in the United States
00:42:05 14 Other famous synagogues
00:46:16 15 Image gallery
00:46:25 16 See also
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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SUMMARY
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A synagogue (pronounced ; from Greek συναγωγή, synagogē, 'assembly', Hebrew: בית כנסת bet kenesset, 'house of assembly' or בית תפילה bet tefila, house of prayer, Yiddish: שול shul, Ladino: אסנוגה esnoga or קהל kahal), is a Jewish or Samaritan house of worship.
Synagogues have a large place for prayer (the main sanctuary) and may also have smaller rooms for study and sometimes a social hall and offices. Some have a separate room for Torah study, called the בית מדרש beth midrash house of study.
Synagogues are consecrated spaces used for the purpose of prayer, Tanakh (the entire Hebrew Bible, including the Torah) reading, study and assembly; however, a synagogue is not necessary for worship. Halakha holds that communal Jewish worship can be carried out wherever ten Jews (a minyan) assemble. Worship can also be carried out alone or with fewer than ten people assembled together. However, halakha considers certain prayers as communal prayers and therefore they may be recited only by a minyan. In terms of its specific ritual and liturgical functions, the synagogue does not replace the long-since destroyed Temple in Jerusalem.
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by the alias Lenin, was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, he developed political theories known as Leninism.
Born to a wealthy middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in a RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Encouraging insurrection during Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he later campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution, in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.
Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty with the Central Powers and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations secured independence after 1917, but three re-united with Russia through the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. In increasingly poor health, Lenin died at his dacha in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
Widely considered one of the most significant and influential figures of the 20th century, Lenin was the posthumous subject of a pervasive personality cult within the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. He became an ideological figurehead behind Marxism–Leninism and thus a prominent influence over the international communist movement. A controversial and highly divisive individual, Lenin is viewed by supporters as a champion of socialism and the working class, while critics on both the left and right emphasize his role as founder and leader of an authoritarian regime responsible for political repression and mass killings.