IGN: 1D4Life
DATE: 3/30/22
WHAT YOU WANT TO SUGGEST OR MENTION: A synagogue for the Jewish characters. We already have a church and a shrine, why not also have a synagogue.
HOW WILL THIS BENEFIT THE SERVER/COMMUNITY?:
There are three main denominations of Judaism, reform, conservative, and orthodox. My character Noa, is a conservative Jew. She keeps kosher and follows the laws of Shabbat. With that, there is no place for her to go to for a place of worship other than her home. This is why having a synagogue on srp will make such a huge difference. There is a church, but that’s a church, doesn’t make good being a synagogue. There is a shrine, but that’s a shrine, doesn’t really make any good of being a synagogue.
There are only two places of worship, the church, for Christian/Catholic , and the shrine for the characters that are Shinto. Yet there is a handful of characters that are Jewish. Someone who is OOCLY Jewish and has a character who is ICLY Israeli and a conservative Jew, there really is not a bunch of diversity in places of worship on SRP. I have met so many people on SRP who are OOCLY Jewish and some who have characters that are ICLY Jewish. Recently, I was on one of my alt accounts, and I had a conversation with someone with a Jewish character after complimenting their character for being Jewish, they too agreed that there should be a synagogue added.
Many things can happen with the addition of a synagogue, events such as Bar/Bat/B'nai Mitzvah's can happen, in which it is the welcoming into adulthood where a person of the age of 13 will have a service of them doing a few specific prayers. Having a Bar/Bat/B'nai Mitzvah is not just for people that are at the age of 13. How that would work in SRP, is that the person will ICLY meet with the cantor 1-3 times and then on an ICLY Friday there will be a Shabbat dinner (what I did for my OOCLY Bat Mitzvah) in their own location of choice or there would be a Friday night service at the synagogue. Then the next ICLY day, Saturday morning there would be the Saturday morning service, followed by a brunch in a chosen location. Then later that night there will be a big party in a chosen location. The prayers and everything that happens during the services, will be just be detailrp. An example would be: /me would go up to podium, looking up at all the people before telling everyone we are about to do the sh'ma. Would take their tzitzit and place them on their glabella before taking a breath and reciting the prayer. After a little while they would say the v'ahavta and few other prayers before giving the tzitzit a small kiss and letting them go in front of them. That's just one example of how it would go. OOCLY you would need to do research just so you would know the order and how they would go. Another thing that can happen are Jewish weddings.
With the addition of a synagogue, there would be a job opportunity for a rabbi and a cantor (they don’t have to be male. There are female rabbis and cantors) in which people would need to have a Jewish character and have knowledge about being a rabbi and/or cantor. If a synagogue ever does get added, I would gladly help in making it look realistic and a place of worship for the Jewish characters.
Yes, there is not really much of religious aspect on SRP, but a synagogue will still make a huge difference.
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The server is located in Japan, not Jews.
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In my view, the church already fills that role, and i feel like this is a very niche request (meaning that it will barely be used) for a map expasion.

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The server is located in Japan, not Jews.
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Yes the server is located in Japan, but there is still Jewish characters. People have characters that are from all around with different beliefs. I am suggesting this for diversity.

Eliana Captol said:

Yes the server is located in Japan, but there is still Jewish characters. People have characters that are from all around with different beliefs. I am suggesting this for diversity.

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Either way, the church already exists seems like the one you have suggested.

Meow.

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I'm giving this a -1 because:

- From my experience, I haven't seen many Jewish characters.
- There's already a church that could fill that role.
- And because of my first reason, I feel like not many players would use it, thus making it a waste of map space when staff can use the map to expand Karakura that would benefit the playerbase as a whole.

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Mehhh... I don't feel the religious part of SRP needs any development right now

Not going to lie, it seems that people have the idea that a church and a synagogue has the same function. They do, but, Jews use their synagogues as houses of prayer, study and assembly. Synagogues typically are places to meet with other Jews and to study Jewish doctrine. In a synagogue there is A synagogue is basically many rooms, and usually a large hall for gatherings. There are religious objects that offer followers a piece of symbolism. The everlasting light hangs above the Holy Ark in all synagogues. Synagogue's have a giant scroll called a Torah.

pash said:

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Mehhh... I don't feel the religious part of SRP needs any development right now

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Yes there is not really much of a religious aspect in SRP, but to have a synagogue will bring more diversity to the server

Eliana Captol said:

Yes there is not really much of a religious aspect in SRP, but to have a synagogue will bring more diversity to the server

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This type of development doesn't appear like it'd bring t h a t much of diversity I don't think we need any kind of development like that e s p e c i a l l y when a church exist

pash said:

This type of development doesn't appear like it'd bring t h a t much of diversity I don't think we need any kind of development like that e s p e c i a l l y when a church exist

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but it would. A Jewish person would not go to a Church to pray. There are many specifications that a synagogue has, that a church does not have. One of those things, is that a practicing Jew, will pray facing East. You might not think that is a big deal, but for a practicing Jew, yes. On SRP the church faces North

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Im a jewish, my char is a jewish. . .why not.

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The server is located in Japan, not Jews

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b4 saying a lot of bullshit, read stuff bc THERES a jewish community in japan.

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Eliana Captol said:

Not going to lie, it seems that people have the idea that a church and a synagogue has the same function. They do, but, Jews use their synagogues as houses of prayer, study and assembly. Synagogues typically are places to meet with other Jews and to study Jewish doctrine. In a synagogue there is A synagogue is basically many rooms, and usually a large hall for gatherings. There are religious objects that offer followers a piece of symbolism. The everlasting light hangs above the Holy Ark in all synagogues. Synagogue's have a giant scroll called a Torah.

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For me it still seems like an extremely niche idea, if anything, these places could be created in a private property, a tower for example. The map of Karakura needs a lot of additions to it, but those additions should be places that will be used with some frequency, and preferably something that will attract a majority of the playerbase - In my over 1000 hours on the server, i have never met a jewish character, now, of course they do exist, but they are extremely scarce, i don't even think there are 20 in the whole server.

Now, a lot of other things, like, do we really need to develop the religious part of SRP as much? Are people really into that kind of RP? Do we really need all this diversity for all the different kinds of people? Then why don't we bring a mosque for the muslims, and a buddhist temple, etc, etc.

You are basically asking for a special space on the small map that we have, builders, planning, time just for a place that will be rarely used by a group of 20-ish people.

Yeah, big, big no.

Eliana Captol said:

but it would. A Jewish person would not go to a Church to pray. There are many specifications that a synagogue has, that a church does not have. One of those things, is that a practicing Jew, will pray facing East. You might not think that is a big deal, but for a practicing Jew, yes. On SRP the church faces North

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Well y e a h h h I don't think that really matters in SRP the church would be enough... And idk why would you take a pray too seriously and get too deep into it in a blocks game I'd say f2b (SkipRP) the process

To elaborate more I mean I'd get a religious char clearly most of my chars are religious and I understand role-playing and all I just don't think that we specifically need to get a synagogue for the Jews or make it that big of a deal from religious side... I mean, if you think about it what @Sirguiad is true if we're going to make a synagogue then why not mosques for Muslims or something more Japan related like Buddhist temples since Japan manifests in Buddhism.. But I'm not here to cry or debate about I want mosques too if synagogues do become no im trying to explain what we don't need to specifically get a synagogue OR even develop religious side stuff at all for the moment

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No offense to anyone who is a part of the Jewish religion and stuff of course, but this isn't needed at all. It won't be used and it'll just take up space that could be used for other kinds of buildings.

HATOLA said:

b4 saying a lot of bullshit, read stuff bc THERES a jewish community in japan.

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I know that

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The server is located in Japan, not Jews.
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Bro doesn't know what Israel is...

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While it will be nice for that side of the server I do not believe the space we have should be sacrificed for this. Many people have made a lot of good points so I have not a lot to add.

While I am always one for the religious side of SRP because it deserves more love, I feel this isn't worth the space sacrifice.

Speaking of the religious side, please explore the monastery more guys, I'm lonely up there as a maiden lol!