All 9 Uses
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- He was hard as a rock and it didn't take long before the Jewish congregations figured him out and sent him on his way, so we traveled a lot when I was a young girl.†
Chpt 5congregations = people who worship together in the same building
- That's how the members from the congregations would pay us, with food and a place to stay and their cast-off clothes.†
Chpt 5
- He'd coolly run the eye in a circle, gazing around at the congregation of forty-odd parishioners to see where the whirring noise was coming from.†
Chpt 6
- I never understood why God would climb into these people with such fervor, until I became a grown man myself and came to understand the nature and power of God's many blessings, but even as a boy I knew God was all-powerful because of Mommy's utter deference to Him, and also because she would occasionally do something in church that I never saw her do at home or anywhere else: at some point in the service, usually when the congregation was singing one of her favorite songs, like "We've Come This Far by Faith" or "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," she would bow down her head and weep.†
Chpt 6
- Every Easter we had to perform at the New Brown Church, playing our instruments or reciting a story from the Bible for the entire church congregation.†
Chpt 6
- I never had problems with these memorycrunching sessions, but one year my older brother Billy, whose memory would later serve him well enough to take him through Yale University Medical School, marched to the front of the church wearing suit and tie, faced the congregation, started out, "When Jesus first came to ..." then blanked out completely.†
Chpt 6
- He was used to us getting hand-me-downs from the congregations and that was fine with him.
Chpt 11 *
- This is the synagogue that young Rachel Shilsky walked to with her family and where Rabbi Shilsky led the congregation during the Jewish holidays Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, and Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and fasting.†
Chpt 22
- The rabbi's heartfelt words moved the entire congregation, and my thoughts traveled to my own Jewish mother, who was sitting in the fourth row.†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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(1)
(congregation as in: the congregation voted) people who worship together in the same building
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much more rarely, congregation can reference any group of people, animals, or things collected together.