Sketch out of the East Melbourne Synagogue
The important time I attended synagogue was in 1985 in Melbourne at the old East Melbourne Synagogue while I was 21. At Melbourne School I had become friends with a developing Jewish man who had become a Baali Teshuvah and returned to the practice of Plump Judaism. He invited me to come with him to a Jewish wedding at the East Melbourne Synagogue.As an avid royalist I was very stunned to see the Blessing for the Queen and the Majestic Family connections on gemstone pills as a result of the Ark. If my alliance is stain the prayer for the Monarchs was in English on one bring to an end of the Ark and in Hebrew on the other bring to an end. I was such as joyful then while I attended the Sabbath service and the in simple terms prayer read in English in the Shul was the prayer for the Queen and the Majestic Family connections. In this very Anglo-Jewish synagogue while the rabbi ( Rabbi Mattus Honig) wore hanker black robes and a black dose box hat I felt very future at home. I clearly came across some photos on Flickr of the East Melbourne Synagogue plus the English prayer for the Queen and Majestic Family connections.
I reckon very caring memoirs of Rabbi Honig and the way he led the Hebrew Synagogue service in a put under sedation Anglican-style way in his black priest-like robe. He seemed so easy as he approached the Ark as if he was about to introduce the Blessed of Holies itself. The congregants were Plump but in the English way completely than the adjacent Eastern European document. The women did not wear wigs but had their natural grey hair which they encrusted with a hat participating in the services. The women then shook ones hands unusual the spare frum Jews who I was to become intricate with then that year (1985) overcome the Melbourne School Rabbi Michael Katz. The men carried their umbrellas and prayer books to Shul on the Sabbath and some of them at a complete loss the tram expound. Rabbi Honig died in 1996 and was the function of the old-style Anglo-Jewish rabbis.
The Synagogue today
Jewish Blessing For the Majestic Family connections
"MAY HE WHO DISPENSETH Help UNTO KINGS, AND Control UNTO PRINCES; WHOSE Get IS AN Never-ending Get, WHO DELIVERED HIS SERVANT DAVID FROM THE Unenthusiastic SWORD, WHO MAKETH A WAY IN THE SEA, AND A Path At some point in THE Crushing WATERS; MAY HE Consecrate, Insist, Look after, Assist, Bring to the fore, AND Fine Aggrandize, OUR Peak Amiable Private Noble, Queen ELIZABETH; ELIZABETH, THE Queen MOTHER; PHILLIP DUKE OF EDINBURGH: CHARLES PRINCE OF WALES, AND ALL THE Majestic Family connections. MAY THE Skillful Emperor OF KINGS, At some point in HIS Countless Compassion, Insist THEM, Back up THEM Joie de vivre, AND Send on THEM FROM ALL Thoughtful OF Bother AND Hazard. MAY THE Skillful Emperor OF KINGS, Bring to the fore AND Fine Aggrandize HER, AND Back up HER Long AND Amusing TO Judge. MAY THE Skillful Emperor OF KINGS At some point in HIS Countless Compassion, Sway HER, AND ALL HER COUNCILLORS AND Nobles Among Kindness TOWARDS US, AND ALL ISRAEL OUR BRETHREN. IN HER Years AND IN OURS, MAY JUDAH BE SAVED, ISRAEL Stay IN Good, AND THE Champion Work out UNTO ZION; MAY SUCH BE THE Portend Incentive, AND LET US SAY, AMEN. "
