When I grew up, I became a professor of Jewish studies. I now know that the Ner Tamid that so fascinated me as a child memorializes the seven-branched candelabra in the biblical tabernacle.

Salonga joins The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple ... tirelessly in the months before World War II to save endangered Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, orchestrating ...

They may do this in a yeshiva or at home. Connecting with God through worshipping together began with the creation of the tabernacle. Nowadays, Jewish people worship together in the synagogue.