Pattern of religious services. The liturgy grew out of the practices in Palestine and Babylon in the time of the *geonim. The Italian and *Ashkenazi rite is based on the Palestinian tradition while the *Sephardi rite draws on the Babylonian. Ultimately...

A liturgy is the customary public worship done by a specific religious group, according to their particular traditions. The word may refer to an elaborate formal ritual such as the Catholic Mass, or a daily activity such as the Muslim salat (see Oxford...