cantors
Synagogue prayer leaders
Cantors is the plural of cantor, a person who leads liturgical music in religious services.
In Jewish worship, the cantor (or hazzan) chants prayers and leads congregational singing.
In Christian traditions, particularly Catholic and Lutheran, cantors perform similar functions.
The cantors from three synagogues gathered for a joint concert.
Jewish house of worship
- chantRepetitive rhythmic phrase
- TorahJudaism's core scripture
- prayerAddress to deity
- congregationAssembled group of worshippers
bimah · High Holidays · shul · trope · Shabbat · investiture · pulpit · liturgy
Sound from throat
- tenorEssential meaning or import
- baritoneMid-range male voice
- vocalExpressing views freely
- recitativeSpeechlike operatic singing
melody · intonation · sacred music · choir · soloist · oratorio · hymn · psalm
Mathematics of abstract collections
- diagonalSlanting line or path
- infinityUnlimited extent or quantity
- cardinalitySize of a set
- continuumUninterrupted, gradual sequence
theorem · proof · countable · uncountable · aleph · ordinal · real numbers · paradox
synagogue
Jewish house of worship
congregation · bimah · High Holidays · shul · trope · Shabbat · investiture · pulpit · liturgy · services
voice
Sound from throat
recitative · melody · intonation · sacred music · choir · soloist · oratorio · hymn · psalm · singing
set theory
Mathematics of abstract collections
- diagonalSlanting line or path
- infinityUnlimited extent or quantity
- cardinalitySize of a set
continuum · theorem · proof · countable · uncountable · aleph · ordinal · real numbers · paradox · hierarchy
- JudaismShabbat, kosher, Passover, Torah, Hanukkah
- believersbeliever, believers, adherent, devotee, theist
- Jewish cultureTorah, synagogue, synagogues, rabbi, rabbis
- Jewish heritageTorah scrolls, synagogues, Ashkenazi, rabbis, Sephardic
- Jewish Lifesynagogues, rabbis, Torah scrolls, Torah study, Shabbat
- American Jewrysynagogues, rabbis, kosher, Yiddish, Hebrew
cantorsrabbis
Ordained Jewish spiritual leaders
preachers · ministers · priests · imams · theologians
cantorscongregants
Members attending religious services
laity · parishioners · worshippers · laypeople · listeners
cantorscongregation
Assembled group of worshippers
choir · respondents · listeners · audience · chorus
- Cantor's theoremPowersets always strictly larger