{"id":38268,"date":"2014-11-18T18:05:43","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=38268"},"modified":"2014-11-18T18:44:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:44:48","slug":"silence-prayer-shattered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/silence-prayer-shattered\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of Prayer, Shattered in a Synagogue Bloodbath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" class=\"size-s195x293 wp-post-38268 wp-image-1093691\" title=\"A trail of blood inside the synagogue (photo credit: Kobi Gideon\/ GPO\/ Flash 90)\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.timesofisrael.com\/uploads\/2014\/11\/F141118KBG03-195x293.jpg\" alt=\"A trail of blood inside the synagogue (photo credit: Kobi Gideon\/ GPO\/ Flash 90)\" width=\"195\" height=\"293\" \/>Yaakov Amos had just finished calling silently on God to \u201cgrant peace everywhere, goodness and blessing; grace, loving kindness and mercy to us and unto all Israel, Your people,\u201d\u00a0when two terrorists stormed into Har Nof\u2019s largest synagogue at 7:01 a.m.\u00a0on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-promo\">Amos, a trained trauma therapist, was in the middle of the\u00a0<em>Amidah<\/em> prayer when he heard a pair of gunshots issued in quick succession. \u201cBoom-boom,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He swiveled around fast, his feet still together in prayer, and saw \u201ca Jew in phylacteries\u201d on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>In those seconds, Amos was transported from the calm of the meditative prayer into the middle of a \u00a0massacre, as terrorists armed with a gun, a knife and meat cleaver killed four people and injured several more. Witnesses and rescue workers described a gruesome scene inside the Jerusalem synagogue, with blood spattering prayer books and people in the middle of prayer caught in the carnage.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full article at<\/em> <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-jerusalem-terrorists-shatter-silence-of-prayer-with-synagogue-bloodbath\/\">Times of Israel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yaakov Amos had just finished calling silently on God to \u201cgrant peace everywhere, goodness and blessing; grace, loving kindness and mercy to us and unto all Israel, Your people,\u201d\u00a0when two terrorists stormed into Har Nof\u2019s largest synagogue at 7:01 a.m.\u00a0on Tuesday. Amos, a trained trauma therapist, was in the middle of the\u00a0Amidah prayer when he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cloudinary_featured_overwrite":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Silence of Prayer, Shattered in a Synagogue Bloodbath  - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/israel\/silence-prayer-shattered\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Silence of Prayer, Shattered in a Synagogue Bloodbath  - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yaakov Amos had just finished calling silently on God to \u201cgrant peace everywhere, goodness and blessing; grace, loving kindness and mercy to us and unto all Israel, Your people,\u201d\u00a0when two terrorists stormed into Har Nof\u2019s largest synagogue at 7:01 a.m.\u00a0on Tuesday. 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