Monday 11 September 2017

Leicester Synagogue

Continue with the Heritage Open weekend, we went to Leicester Synagogue.  We were there early in the morning.  Their plaques outside had a calendar year 58xx.  I did not know Judaism believe in that too.


There were a lot of visitors.  The guide was quite good, quite knowledgeable.  She started the tour reminding us Jesus was a Jew.  I was surprise that we could see behind the curtain, containing the Ark of Covenant.  She mentioned there are a lot of rules could not be followed as there is no Temple.  What an easy way to get out of all the tedious sacrifices!


I did learnt, that star of David was probably a recent invention, probably date back to 15th century, but probably not invented by David.

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