significance of synagogue services in judaism
In the centre of the synagogue there is a raised platform called the 'bimah', with a reading desk, and this is the place from which the service is led, and the reading from the Torah takes place, with the reader facing the Ark.uch services need not take place in a synagogue; they merely require a quorum ('minyan') of at least ten men over 13 years of age (in Orthodoxy-ten men or women in Progressive Judaism) to gather for morning, afternoon and evening prayers.