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On Shabbat, about 100
The exp anded
says Don Young.
And "with a shul, you Kollel In stitute people daven at the Kollel,
Oak P ark will but for everyday use, no
have an extra layer of in resemb
le the
more than 30 men study
soul," offers Todd Young.
Temp le in
there at once, the rabbi
"You look at everything —
Jerusa lem.
says. Like with most con-
it's not just what they say.
gregations, "we have to balance
A lot of it is intuition."
And hopefully, says Don Young, our needs.
"Part of what you want in a
YIOP will end up with something
sanctuary is to foster a spiritual
"as timeless as the religion is."
Eugene Sherizen, co-chair of feeling, a feeling of awe, with the
YIOP's building committee, says high ceiling and with the win-
what surrounds them as they dows ... because praying is ... the
pray makes a difference to con- service of the heart," says Rabbi
gregants. All involved agree that Irons.
When Shir Shalom was being
Young Israel's current structure
is old, dank and too small for its built, congregants expressed to
Neumann Smith & Associates
current needs.
"We are looking for a building that they wanted their first build-
that is subtle and timeless in de- ing "to have an 'imageability'
sign; we're trying to create an at- about it," says Mr. Neumann.
But within the shul, home to
mosphere of sanctity," Mr.
about
800 families, every inch of
Sherizen says.
Rabbi Weil says, "If we could space is designed to feel intimate,
fulfill our wish list, [YIOP] would with an option to open up for
be a combination of the Kollel In- greater use.
"We wanted an all-inclusive
stitute's Beit HaMidrash and
Temple Israel's Learning Center: building [that would] expand and
the selection and volume of works contract at will, because people
in the Kollel ... "and the accessi- have more than one purpose,"
bility and up-to-date technology says Rabbi Dannel Schwartz.
The furthest row of seating
of Temple Israel's Learning Cen-
ter, where even the youngest or from the bimah is the eighth
newest learners can feel comfort- row, with a total of 440 perma-
nent seats. Sliding walls open to
able.
Although YIOP is at the begin- second-floor classrooms and be-
ning of its architectural path, Rab- hind the sanctuary, for addition-
bi Well says he would like to see al seating. On a regular Shabbat,
the building have a center en- the sanctuary appears intimate
trance, so congregants enter at the and small, but for the High Hol-
Beit HaMidrash, or study hall, idays, the temple can accommo-
with a social hall to one side and date up to 2,000 worshipers at a
time.
sanctuary to the other.
In order to find the right com-
The Kollel Institute is under-
taking expansion plans of its own. bination of architectural savvy
The center on Lincoln near and theological intensity, Rabbi
Greenfield in Oak Park is in the Well and Todd Young toured syn-
process of expanding, with a agogues locally as well as seven
sanctuary that looks like a small or eight shuls on the East Coast.
version of the Temple in They saw several trends, includ-
Jerusalem, says Rabbi Shmuel ing "the use of natural light as
crucial," says Rabbi Weil, who
Irons.
A passage in the Talmud refers commends Congregation Beth
to the notion that a synagogue Abraham Hillel Moses for its use
should be a mikdash ma'at, a mi- of natural light.
'The word that keeps coming
nor temple, he says. It should
function as a house of gathering up is user-friendly," says Rabbi
Weil. "Comfortable colors, hand-
and as a house of study.
The Kollel opened in 1974, in icap-accessible bimah, a chal-
Rabbi Irons' basement. That year, lenging, exciting beit midrash,
the Kollel bought and renovated a second home." In a synagogue,
a house next door, which has been he says, one should feel simulta-
home to the Kollel ever since. Ex- neously like he is a visitor and
also at home. ❑
pansion began last summer.