ABSTRACT
One of the most effective instruments for preserving the Jewish, consciousness is public worship. To take part in that worship is a duty which the Jew owes to his Judaism. It is true that Jewish public worship is essentially the devotional act of collective Israel, and not the collective act of individual Jews. A common worship is doubtless a powerful help to individual prayer, and the heart that seeks after communion with God is assuredly aided in its quest by being one of a multitude all intent on the same aim. The Jew who systematically holds himself aloof from the communal worship takes no part in the public confession of faith. The study of Hebrew, the language of Israel, should be doomed to increasing disfavour among Jews at a time when it is being cultivated with growing ardour by non-Jewish scholars.
