Seventh, Levi has to stand up in front of all the other followers and confess that he is leaving his old sins and his old friends, and is now going to read his Bible and pray every single day, memorize verses, and
attend synagogue services every week.
Whether or not he
attended synagogue services, Chagall would have known from his youth that the text read from Genesis 22 in the morning service was conventionally moralized and read to refer to Jewish martyrdom, the supreme act of sacrifice in loyalty to God's covenant.
Church or
synagogue services, that is.
According to Luke he read the Scripture lesson in
the synagogue service when he visited Nazareth later (Lk 4:16 - 20).
The brothers sneak away at
the synagogue service honoring their father to share a couple of joints in a Hebrew school classroom.
I am firmly agnostic, and haven't been to
a synagogue service in years.