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The Chosen, by Chaim Potok
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About three or four such Hasidic sects populated the area in which Danny and I grew up, each with its own rabbi, its own little synagogue, its own customs, its own fierce loyalties.†
Chpt 1.1

synagogue = a place of worship for a people of the Jewish faith
On a Shabbat or festival morning, the members of each sect could be seen walking to their respective synagogues, dressed in their particular garb, eager to pray with their particular rabbi and forget the tumult of the week and the hungry grabbing for money which they needed to feed their large families during the seemingly endless Depression.†
Chpt 1.1

synagogues = places where members of the Jewish faith worship
When he grew older, he became the beadle of the village synagogue.†
Chpt 2.6

synagogue = a place of worship for a people of the Jewish faith
All day long he would sit around, listening to the learned discussions' that went on inside the synagogue walls, and at night, when everyone else slept, he would take the holy books in his hands and study them carefully.†
Chpt 2.6
When he died, his followers opened their own synagogues.†
Chpt 2.6

synagogues = places where members of the Jewish faith worship
My father and I woke early so as to be in our synagogue by eight-thirty.†
Chpt 2.7

synagogue = a place of worship for a people of the Jewish faith
Then my father and I started out on the three-block walk to the synagogue.†
Chpt 2.7
When it didn't rain and wasn't too cold, my father and I always enjoyed our Shabbat walks to and from the synagogue.†
Chpt 2.7
There were many synagogues in Williamsburg.†
Chpt 2.7

synagogues = places where members of the Jewish faith worship
There were also those synagogues in which Jews who were not Hasidim worshiped.†
Chpt 2.7
The synagogue where my father and I prayed had once been a large grocery store.†
Chpt 2.7

synagogue = a place of worship for a people of the Jewish faith
The synagogue was attended mostly by men like my father— teachers from my yeshiva, and others who had come under the influence of the Jewish Enlightenment in Europe and whose distaste for Hasidism was intense and outspoken.†
Chpt 2.7
When my father and I came into the synagogue that morning, the service had just begun.†
Chpt 2.7
He lay unconscious for half a day near the bodies of his wife and children, and then the Russian peasant who tended the stove in the synagogue and swept its floor found him and carried him to his hut, where he extracted the bullet, bathed the wounds, and tied him to the bed so he would not fall out during the days and nights he shivered and screamed with the fever and delirium that followed.†
Chpt 2.7
The synagogue had been burned to the ground.
Chpt 2.7 *

synagogue = a place where members of the Jewish faith worship
A block beyond the synagogue where my father and I prayed, we made a right turn into a narrow street crowded with brownstones and sycamores.†
Chpt 2.7

synagogue = a place of worship for a people of the Jewish faith
The hallway of the brownstone was crowded with black-caftaned men, and there was suddenly a path there, too, and more murmured greetings and questioning eyes, and then Danny and I went through a door that stood open to our right, and we were in the synagogue.†
Chpt 2.7
What was my father's bedroom was here the section of the synagogue that contained the Ark, the Eternal Light, an eight-branched candelabrum, a small podium to the right of the Ark, and a large podium about ten feet in front of the Ark.†
Chpt 2.7
What was our kitchen, hallway, bathroom, my bedroom, my father's study and our front room, was here the portion of the synagogue where the worshipers sat.†
Chpt 2.7
The seats extended back to about twenty feet from the rear wall of the synagogue, the wall opposite the Ark.†
Chpt 2.7
A small portion of the synagogue near the upper door of the hallway had been curtained off with white cheesecloth.†
Chpt 2.7
The remaining section of the synagogue, the section without chairs, was crowded with long tables and benches.†
Chpt 2.7
Through the middle of the synagogue ran a narrow aisle that ended at the large podium.†
Chpt 2.7
The crowd came in quickly, and the synagogue was soon filled with the sounds of shuffling shoes, scraping chairs, and loud voices talking Yiddish.†
Chpt 2.7
Dov Shlomowitz looked away but I saw others in the crowded synagogue staring at me too, and I looked down at the worn prayer book on my stand, feeling exposed and naked again, and very alone.†
Chpt 2.7
The noise in the synagogue had become very loud, almost a din, and the room seemed to throb and swell with the scraping chairs and the talking men.†
Chpt 2.7
The noise inside the synagogue ceased so abruptly that I felt its absence as one would a sudden lack of air.†
Chpt 2.7
It stopped in swift waves, beginning at the rear of the synagogue and ending at the chairs near the podium.†
Chpt 2.7
Danny nudged me with his elbow and motioned with his head toward the rear of the synagogue.†
Chpt 2.7
The congregants rose and came toward the rear of the synagogue.†
Chpt 2.7
The singing filled the synagogue, and Reb Saunders sat back in his leather seat and sang too, and then Danny was singing.†
Chpt 2.7
So far as I could see, Reb Saunders' little son was the only one in the synagogue not singing; he sat pecking at his food and poking at the slice of tomato on his paper plate with his thin, veined hand.†
Chpt 2.7
He was talking in a straight, loud voice that rang through the terrible silence in the synagogue.†
Chpt 2.7
Then the congregants broke to go back to the front section of the synagogue for the Evening Service.†
Chpt 2.7
Then the congregants wished one another and Reb Saunders a good week and began to leave the synagogue.†
Chpt 2.7
It was late, and I thought my father would probably be worried about me by now, but I stood there and waited until the last congregant was gone and the synagogue was empty—except for me, Danny, Reb Saunders, and the little boy.†
Chpt 2.7
The synagogue seemed to me suddenly very small without its throng of black-hatted, black-bearded, black-caftaned men.†
Chpt 2.7
Danny and I remained alone in the synagogue.†
Chpt 2.7
His voice had the same strange quality it had had when he had talked about his brother on our way over to the synagogue earlier in the day—hope, wistfulness, almost an eagerness for something to take place.†
Chpt 2.7
We had come to the corner of the synagogue in which my father and I prayed.†
Chpt 2.7
You were at Reb Saunders' synagogue all this time?†
Chpt 2.7
I sat at the kitchen table and slowly told my father every thing that had taken place in Reb Saunders' synagogue.†
Chpt 2.7
Again, I got the impression that he loved his brother very much, and I wondered why he hadn't said a word to him during all the time I had seen them together yesterday in the synagogue.†
Chpt 2.8
The door in the hallway that led into the synagogue was open, but the synagogue was empty—except for the echoes it contained.†
Chpt 2.8
The door in the hallway that led into the synagogue was open, but the synagogue was empty—except for the echoes it contained.†
Chpt 2.8
I stood just inside the synagogue.†
Chpt 2.8
When we stopped in front of the synagogue where my father and I prayed, he muttered his "Good night," turned, and walked slowly away.†
Chpt 2.8
He was quiet as he walked me part of the way home that night, and when we got to the synagogue where my father and I prayed he muttered something about seeing; me in the library the next day, then turned and went quickly back.†
Chpt 2.10
My father and I spent Shabbat morning in the synagogue, where the pain of death showed itself clearly on every face, and where my friends and I just stood around aimlessly after the service, not knowing what to say.†
Chpt 2.11
We would rise a little before seven, go down to the synagogue to pray the Morning Service with the congregation, have breakfast with the family, then go out onto his porch if the day was nice, or stay in his room if it wasn't, and spend the morning studying Talmud.†
Chpt 2.12

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(1) (synagogue)
a place of worship for a people of the Jewish faith
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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