Rite of Reform Judaism
The vernacular service.
Prayer in the language of the land beside the Hebrew — the reform that named the movement.
⏱ weekly — Shabbat◌ the congregation
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this rite is held
The vernacular service was Reform's most visible early innovation and the one that caused the most offense: prayers in German or English rather than Hebrew, organ music, mixed seating, sermons on contemporary subjects. Each of those was a deliberate argument that Judaism belonged in the surrounding society rather than apart from it. Contemporary Reform services have restored a great deal of Hebrew, which traces the movement's own trajectory precisely.
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Chanting.
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Shabbat — the day of rest.
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The hours.
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