September 06, 1991 • Page Image 51
…great value and needs to be known. Here is the syn- agogue historiography as provided for us conceptually by Dr. Birnbaum: The synagogue, as a place of congregational prayer and public instruction, had come into existence long before the destruction of the Second Temple and the cessation of the sacrificial worship. It is generally assumed that the -syna- gogue had its beginning during the Babylonian captivity in the sixth cen- tury before the...…

















































