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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please explain to me why many Jewish congregations insist on membership fees while Christian churches don't? We are an interfaith family, I wouldn't mind our children growing up in both religions but the whole fees thing really puzzles me. My Jewish DH can't explain it to me, just keeps saying "that's how it's always been." [/quote] As someone who grew up Episcopal but now belongs to a synagogue, I realized that my family's church did have "membership fees", but it was disguised as making an annual pledge and then paying in each week in an envelope that's passed during service. As mentioned above, Jews are not supposed to carry/spend money on the Sabbath, so they cannot pass the offering plate around during services. The two systems are fairly equivalent when all is said and done. [/quote]
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