Although never discouraging private, incidental prayer, Judaism gives absolute priority to the formal worship of the community. Jewish law (halakhah) establishes that even individuals praying privately must first recite the fixed texts, meeting their...

broadly defined, the response to the appearance of that which is accepted as the holy—that is, to a sacred, transcendent power or being. Characteristic modes of response to the holy include cultic acts of all kinds: ritual drama, prayers of many...

(pūjā) an act of reverential attention and personal aspiration turned towards the transcendent or God either directly or through the medium of an image or a symbol (pratīka) by way of a material (ritual) or a mental (meditational)...

See *BENEDICTION, *FASTING, *FESTIVAL, *KIDDUSH, *KIDDUSH HA-SHEM, *LITURGY, *PRAYER BOOK, *SABBATH, *SACRIFICE, *SYNAGOGUE, *TABERNACLE, *TEFILLAH,...

Men worship the rising, not the setting sun....

Worship usually refers to specific acts of religious praise, honour, or devotion, typically directed to a supernatural being such as God, a god or goddess. It is the informal term in English for what sociologists of religion call cultus, the body of...