Questions on praying as a Jew?

Question

I am a Jewish kid at a Christian High School. We have Chapel everyday, and at the end of Chapel, the priest encourages the kids to pray. The majority of the kids pray as they bow their heads towards the cross and the father says a prayer. I want to know if it is wrong for me to bow and pray too. I think it is wrong as a Jew to lower your head to a cross, and I am really confused because I am praying to my G-d, but they are praying to Jesus. Is it okay because I am praying to G-d, even though it is infront of a cross? If I am wrong, what would be the best thing to do to repent for sinning though i didnt know i was sinning at the time?

Please help!

Answer 1

FIrst, I'm not Jewish. Second, isn't there a posek you can ask your question to? Do you know what a posek is? Do you need one's phone number, I know like 30.

To the issue:

Anyways, your problems are multiple. First, by Jewish law you are not allowed to get withing 4 amot (6 to 8ft.) of a house of worship that is not Jewish, except for a mosque, which you can enter and pray in if you desire.

Second, A Jew is required to lay his life down rather than appear to be offering homage to an image. This includes if someone throws coins in front of a statue and simply says, "Pick them up, or I'll kill you."

Third, there is a problem with praying if there is an image near you, even if nobody knows. This was one of the propblems the Hebrews experienced in Egypt, and why they wanted to go sacrifice in the wilderness, see the comentaries on the Haggadah this year.

Fourth, to learn about another religion is forbidden on a Draita level.

Email me if you want the phone # to a Posek. If you don't know what a posek is, that is a rabbi who answers questions on very very difficult questions. Like an uber-rabbi.


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Answer 2

As a Jew you shouldn't be going to a goyish highschool.

You certainly can't pray or bow in front of a cross.
You shouldn't even enter the chapel.

I'm not judging just telling you the basics.

Answer 3

yeah I would not bow before a cross.

It could very well be idolatry.

Ask if you can go outside to pray or pray off to the side.


Better yet, try to find a way into a Jewish school if you can.

If you need any help email me and will do what I can.

Answer 4

Why would you ask us a query using a xian textual content fabric? initiate there, please. Oh and Nick, we don't use the "old testomony". it is the Tanakh.We use the comparable source we've for 4000 years, it purely so occurs the xian OT became in keeping with it- fairly like a fictional novel 'in keeping with' actuality. replaced to in superb condition the author's desires, yet nevertheless no longer splendid or genuine. became Corinthians no longer written by using Paul? Paul enjoyed to tell his gentile pagan followers to do the spectacular opposite of what Jews do! consequently as Jewish heads are lined in humility, he got here upon a thank you to curl it. to respond to your Q, and that i think of you recognize by using now it is not any longer 'a hat'- The Talmud says that the purpose of donning a kippah is to remind us of God, who's the better Authority "above us" (Kiddushin 31a). exterior strikes create inner awareness; donning a symbolic, tangible "something above us" reinforces that concept that God is often looking at. The kippah is a ability to entice out one's inner experience of admire for God.

Answer 5

Pray to Jesus but not as a G-D he was real and a good prophet too. There is only one G-D.

Answer 6

exclude jesus from your praying if it makes you feel better.

Answer 7

hi christians and jews have the same god are you talking about a christian or a catholic