High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A schulklopfer is the person who calls a Jewish community to prayer in the local synagogue. In modern times, the custom has more or less died out[citation needed], but it was historically common. The schulklopfer was usually a beadle, who would perform the task by wandering around the community, knocking on each household's door. In Neustadt, he would knock four times, in the pattern KNOCK - pause - KNOCK KNOCK - pause - KNOCK; Israel Isserlein (a famous rabbi from Neustadt) argued that this pattern was a reference to the Biblical phrase I shall come to thee and bless thee (in gematria, the letters of the first word of this phrase have the values 1, 2, and 1, respectively). In the Rhine, the custom was to strike merely thrice, in the pattern KNOCK - pause - KNOCK KNOCK.

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