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Judaism is a religion for the Hebrews and consists of the beliefs, attitude concerning the Jewish people. I being a Muslim where Islam is one of the largest religions in the world with its followers believing that there is one God and he is irreconcilable I decide to visit a synagogue for learning more about Judaism religion in the world. Muslims belief in the holy book Quran and worship their super being in temple. We believe that the Islamic is complete and general version of the ancient faith that was showed to many people through the prophets like Adam, Abraham, Noah and Moses and among others.

For me to learn more about the various religions in the world I decided and agreed to visit a Judaism religion where specifically I went for visit a synagogue in the Temple Akiba which is located in the Culver City. The exact address of the synagogue is exactly at is 5249 S, Culver city, California 90230. For one knows that in the current world every firm or institution has its own website where one can get the desired information from internet which gives all the necessary details which are clearly explained in detailed manner (Kepel, 1994). The synagogue has its own website located at: http:/www.templeakiba.net. The specific date I made visit to synagogue was on Friday 13th in the year 2015 at exactly 7pm when the evening was almost striking. In the synagogue there was very important service that was actually hosted by Rabbi Zach Shapiro. After entering the synagogue at the first time in my entire life I was very keen and attentive to learn more from their religion.

The time I was getting to the synagogue at that juncture I was too confused though I was so much eager to learn more about this religion. It was not clear to me which route I was to use for entering for I did not know the exact entrance point for the synagogue was since it was still being construction which made me to be more confused. In the synagogue most of the people were all walking towards the direction of getting in to the place of worship which I followed them then released it was the entrance. On contrary to my Islam religion in Temple, the entrance place is always very indicative for we leave our shoes in the entrance marking the entry point. Also in Christianity I had noticed previously that there is always an usher at the entrance who is there purposely to give directions nans also show the entrance.

On the entrance of the synagogue, several men who were enjoying their late 50s years were there in the entrance of the synagogue, who were shouting loudly Shalom which for them it was supposed to mean peace be with you. Just like In Christianity the ushers are by the entrance side of the church all welcoming you for the service and shouting; welcome to church and God bless you. For our temple kind of worship, there are but not always some men who are already standing at the temple entrance and then bless them through the mercies of God and mostly they shout it in Islamic making it hard for you to understand.

At the entrance of both synagogue and the church I had attended earlier, there was same kind of behavior that was common among them and for sure I did not understand why it does not happen the same in Islamic religion. In the synagogue there was a young lady who was giving the book; “Shabbat” along with brochures. On her hands she also had the plastic container that contained “Kippahs” Jewish hat. In the church one usually meet the usher on the entrance who urges one to pick the program of not. picking of these documents’ was either optional or not (Kuper, 1990).Also in the church sometimes we are issued with the hymn book for the members of the congregation who lack the same and also may be optional or even compulsory. In our Islamic religion the issuance of the program may be optional or even compulsory depending on what’s happening or who is leading it.

The seating arrangements in the synagogue, mosque and the church are very different from each a strategy which left me thinking on the sitting criteria which is used generally for the sitting pattern. Normally in the Islamic religion, we are used for seating in three different columns that are having each its own about 10 rows. In church the seating arrangement was made of two big columns each with about 10 rows. In synagogue the sitting arrangement was in 2 columns each with about 6 rows which made me to admire their sitting arrangement. In between the rows and the columns there was a lot of space between the right and the left hands side in the three kinds of settings which included the synagogue, temple and the church with the aim of allowing enough space for the movement of the followers.

The sitting of the members of the congregation was all based according to the role or the function that was delivered by the members of the church, synagogue and the temple. In the synagogue the members of the choir who were comprised of elder women and a pianist were all seated in the right column (Goldenberg, 2009). .

In the church I had noticed that the committee members of the church and the official were all sited in the furthest column of the church. In the temple we saw that all the schools pupils and the students they were all seated in the at the center column at one of the back rows which was bearing the student ranging from the 8 to 9 of them and they all seemed to be non-Jewish. The left column of the synagogue confined the mostly of the attendees of the synagogue.

Both in these three different areas of worship there was all a good kind of relationship between the congregation members and the leader. In the temple, there was a good kind of relations between the members of the congregation for they were all busy greeting each other before the service had commenced. This kind of friendship was due to each members of the temple knew their colleagues by either their first name of even the last name. From my earlier church, I did not see any person greeting all kind of persons that he or she come across but the greetings were to those people who knew each other before. I was also very astonished to see that most of the people who were aged between the ages of 20s to 40s were not very many in the temple and ranged from 1 to 0 which the largest number of the people being children in the age below 17 years. In church the pastor had a good relationship with the worshippers for I could see him permitting and giving them chance those who interested to present to kindly do it without any favor or kind of favoritism of special attention. In the synagogue Rabbi was very friendly in worship place for he gave a lady power to control the playing and the singing during the worship and also he also told people what was happening to the renovation process.

All the three worshippers form the synagogue, temple and the Orthodox Church had some expectations form their way of performing rituals with the expectation of blessings. In the synagogue people had a strong belief that their worship and praises could lead to them being blessed by their God and would receive instant miracles. Rabbi brought down the Torah and had people touching it with their books. Once people were all done with the Torah they brought up a piece of bread that everyone had to touch at the same time. If you could not be able to grasp the bread then you were supposed to touch the person who’s touching it for you to be able to get your blessing. In church the people had the believe that praying, thanksgiving, tithing and fasting among others could lead to one being so much blesses and being disease free. in the temple we believe that being faithful in God and more specifically in the month of Ramadhan it will make one to be more blessed and be well taken care of by God (Ellens, 2004). 

References

Ellens, H. (2004). The Destructive Power of Religion. Violence in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, 4 volumes. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Goldenberg, D. M. (2009). The curse of Ham: Race and slavery in early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Princeton University Press.

Kuper, L. (1990). Theological warrants for genocide: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Terrorism and Political Violence, 2(3), 351-379.

Kepel, G. (1994). The revenge of God: The resurgence of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the modern world. Penn State Press.