A Synagogue Is Polluted
The next day was a Sabbath, and the Jews assembling at the synagogue found one of the local opposition sacrificing birds on an upturned pot beside the entrance. The Jews were enraged at what they saw as an intolerable parody of their law and a desecration of their ground.
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Treating the Synagogue as Part of the Temple
m. Ta‘anit 2:5
It happened in the days of R. Ḥalafta and R. Ḥananiah ben Teradyon that a man passed before the ark [as shaliaḥ tsibur] and completed the entire benediction, and they did not respond, “Amen.” [The ḥaz…
Sanctifying Objects for Use in the Synagogue
t. Megillah 2:14, 16
14. One who makes a candelabrum or a lamp for a synagogue: until the name of the owners has been forgotten from them, it is not permitted to change them for another purpose; once the name of the…
Prayer Is like Sacrifice
y. Berakhot 5:1, 8d
R. Phineas in the name of R. Hoshaiah: He who prays in the synagogue is as if he had sacrificed a pure flour offering. What is the reason? As the children of Israel bring flour offering in a pure…
Prohibition on Building a Synagogue as a Model of the Temple
b. Rosh Hashanah 24a–b
As it is taught [in a baraita]: A person [may] not construct a house [in the exact] form of the Sanctuary, [nor] a portico in [the exact] form of the Entrance Hall [of the Sanctuary, nor] a courtyard…
How to Show Respect for a Synagogue
t. Megillah 2:18
[With respect to] synagogues, [we] do not treat them with irreverence: One should not enter them in the heat because of the heat, nor in the cold because of the cold, nor in the rain because of the…
Selling a Synagogue
m. Megillah 3:1–3
1. Townspeople who sold the town square may buy a synagogue with the proceeds. [If they sold] a synagogue, they may buy an ark with the proceeds. [If they sold] an ark, they may buy covers [for…