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  • Monday, October 17, 2005

    Yom Kippur

    Yesterday was Yom Kippur so we went into Barcelona for the service. After finding a congregation on the Internet, I was surprised that they didn't provide an address with their contact information. I had to email and then they gave me an invitation and the location. We also had to bring our passports in order to get into the service. Apparently antisemitism is a problem here. On the website, they said that within a week of putting up a holocaust memorial statue, it was broken in half.

    The nice part about the service was that it was still familiar. This is one of the advantages of having much of the service in Hebrew. Of course, my understanding of the 20 minute sermon was something like this: There were three students who Blah, Blah, Blah. And then the Rabi said Blah, Blah, Blah. A few days later we went over to the house of one of the congregation members and found out that the sermon was actually pretty good.

    Another difference was in the transliteration. Because lots of people don't read Hebrew, all the prayers have the phonetic translations underneath the Hebrew. The phonetics were completely different than they would be in the states. It makes sense, since many letters are pronounced differently in Spanish, but it still took me a few minutes to figure it out.


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