Synopsis of requirements. Auditorium: seated for dinner, 50–450 people. Air-conditioned. Stage. Kitchen facilities: with access to auditorium and lunchroom. Coat rooms and lavatories. Chapel: with rooted seats for 150–200 people. Ark. (To double as Junior Congregation.) Should adjoin lunchroom. Offices and library: adjoining offices for Rabbi and Secretary, with the latter large enough to accommodate an extra desk. Rabbi’s office to adjoin library. Youth: at least one clubroom or lounge, with facilities if possible. Classrooms (maximum capacity about 20–25): minimum of 8 rooms, 1 library, kindergarten, storage rooms, and double office. Maximum: 11 rooms, plus others mentioned, plus roof playground. Lunchroom: for Kiddush, breakfasts, school lunches, and supper meetings. Capacity about 100 seated. Present dimensions of buildings: a) Synagogue building. Lot size: 13,760 sq. ft. Frontage: 112.89 ft. Seating capacity: main floor 540, balcony 283, vestry 250. b) School building. Lot size: 10,890 sq. ft. Frontage: 90 ft. Building size: 83 x 45. (Above facilities to be distributed between new building and present vestry.)

❖ What thoughts flow through your mind when you reflect on the words Shema Yisrael Hashem Elokaynu Hashem Echad? ❖ Let’s discuss Dr. Lamm’s definition of “spirituality” (page 6): “The intention we bring to our religious acts, the focusing of our mind and thoughts on the transcendent... a groping for the Source of all existence and the Giver of Torah.” What would you add or subtract from that definition? Why?❖ How do we attempt to achieve balance in our own lives between “spirituality” and commitment to Jewish “law?” Dr. Lamm suggests (page 6) that “spirituality” is “subjective” and Jewish law is “objective.” However, in our lives is there not a great measure of ”subjectivity” in our relationship with Jewish “law,” at least in terms of our selectivity — which laws will we take very seriously, or somewhat seriously; how we allow certain “laws” to impact on our lives?❖ If “we do not have the capacity for sustained attention (in prayer) for even one short paragraph” (page 10), how can we at all engage honestly in the enterprise of prayer?❖ “What was heard at Sinai was not a one time affair; the voice of God is ubiquitous and continuous. It is up to us to hear it.” (Page 14). Just how do we go about hearing that voice? How do we go about “understanding” that voice (page 15)? What role does *kavanah* play in this process?❖ What is the difference between a “doubter” and an “honest doubter”? Is it too much to ask to “put our doubts aside” even for one “sacred moment” and “stand before our Maker as children?” Can we “doubt our doubts” with integrity? (Page 17)❖ The recitation of the Shema helps integrate the individual into “the whole community of Israel.” (Page 19) Discuss the importance of that effort and other Jewish mechanisms for accomplishing that purpose. How important is “community” in our personal and individualistic search for “spirituality?”❖ How does Judaism, in its entirety, or in its parts, help us to cope with and to overcome confusion and despair “in an age …

A book of prayers and zemiros for congregational use on Friday nights. Congregation Kodimoh, Springfield, Mass. Compiled and prepared by Rabbi Norman Lamm with the assistance of Rev. Herman B. Abramson. Progress Press, Springfield, Mass. Dedicated by Mr. Nathan Genden and his children to the everlasting memory of their beloved wife and mother, Mrs. Anna Genden, 1897 – 1956.1 THE SABBATH PSALM It is good to give thanks unto the Lord, And to sing praises unto Thy name, O Most High; To declare Thy loving-kindness each morning, And Thy faithfulness every night, With an instrument of ten strings, And with the psaltery, With exalted music upon the harp. For Thou, O Lord, hast made me rejoice in Thy work; I will glory in the works of Thy hands. How great are Thy deeds, O Lord! Thy thoughts are very deep. The ignorant man does not know, Neither does a fool understand this— That when the wicked spring up like the grass And when the workers of iniquity flourish, It is only that they may be destroyed forever. But the righteous shall flourish as the palm tree, Growing mighty as a cedar in Lebanon. Planted in the house of the Lord, They shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; They shall be full of strength and vigor, To praise the Lord for His justice, Our Rock in whom there is no unrighteousness. The Lord reigneth; He is clothed in majesty; The world is set firm that it cannot be moved. Thy throne, O Lord, is established from of old; Thou art from everlasting. The floods lift up, O Lord, The floods lift up their roaring. Above the voices of many waters, Above the breakers of the sea, Supreme art Thou, O Lord! Thy testimonies are very sure; Holiness becometh Thy house, Lord, for evermore.2 L’CHOH DODEE לכה דודי לקראת כלה, פני שבת נקבלה. לכה דודי לקראת כלה, פני שבת נקבלה. שמור וזכור בדבור אחד השמיענו אל המיוחד; יי אחד ושמו אחד לשם ולתפארת ולתהלה. לכה דודי לקראת כלה, פני שבת נקבלה. לקראת שבת לכו ונלכה כי היא מקור הברכה; מראש מקדם נ…

This course aims at presenting the major ideals of the Jewish weltanschauung implicit in the Daily Prayerbook. The Siddur has been chosen not primarily to afford an opportunity for the exposition of its text, but to enable the student to examine the major principles of Jewish philosophy in a more "natural" setting than in any artificial "system." Supplementary readings will be provided. I. Introduction. A. The Origin of Prayer. 1. Biblical and talmudic references

A. Welcoming the Sabbath "Come let us welcome the Queen Sabbath" Rabbi Haninah in the Babylonian Talmud. 1. Shalom Alechem congregation with cantor and choir.p. 67 (transliteration on p. 478) 2. Opening Prayer-from the pulpit. p. 442 3. L'cha Dodie-congregation with cantor and choir. p. 30-33 (recite only first two and then last stanza) (transliteration on p. 475-6) B. Reading from the Torah 1. "Moses ordained the reading of the Torah on the Sabbath" Jerusalem Talmud. Selections from the Weekly Scriptural or Prophetic Portion-from the pulpit 2. The Shema-congregation in unison.. (first two verses in Hebrew; first paragraph in English) 3. RESPONSIVE READING p. 43 to be announced C. REMEMBERING THE SABBATH "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy" Exodus 20:8 1. KIDDUSH-(congregation rises) from the palpit Hebrew on p. 63; transliteration on p. 478) 2. RESPONSIVE READING . 443 D. THE SABBATH, A DELIGHT "Call the Sabbath a delight" Isaiah 58:13 1. FROM THE BIBLE AND THE SIDDUR a. VE'SHOMRU congregation with cantor and choir (transliteration on p. 477) p. 49 b. VA YECHULU congregation with cantor and choir. p. 59 (transliteration on p. 477) c. MAGEN AVOS congregation with cantor and chor p. 59 d. YIS'M'CHU-congregation with cantor and choir. . 213 All page numbers refer to Birnbaum's "Prayerbook for Sabbath and Festivals" 2. THE SABBATH PSALM-congregation responsively. p. 33 3. FROM THE Z MIROS: a. YAH RIBON-congregation with cantor and choir......... b. TZUR MISHELO-congregation with cantor and choir p. 71 . 73 E. ISRAEL AND AMERICA "Seek ye the peace of the city and pray unto the Lord for it." Jeremiah 29:7 "More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel" Ahad Ha'am 1. (Congregation will rise and remain standing for next 2 prayers) PRAYER FOR THE UNITED STATES from the pulpit from the pulpit (in Hebrew on p. 435) 2. PRAYER FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL F. SONGS OF ISRAEL "Where is God my Maker, who giveth songs in the night?" Job 35:10 Songs of Israel,…