It is Shabbos (Saturday), Parshas Shekalim, 1885 and Delegate Chief Rabbi Dr. Hermann Adler is in the then fairly new Bayswater Synagogue in the fashionable west of London.  Many middle class and moderately wealthy families that originated in the East End of London have moved here.  No-one can imagine that the Bayswater Synagogue will not … Continue reading Hebrew, The Language of our Prayers. A Sermon preached at the Bayswater Synagogue, by Rev. Dr. Hermann Adler, London 1885. →