He was the first to introduce family pews in synagogues, and in many other ways "occidentalized" Jewish worship.
There are two synagogues.
Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
The city now contains over a hundred places of worship, of which ten are Roman Catholic, and nine Jewish synagogues.
It also retains a significant Jewish quarter, complete with one of the oldest surviving synagogues in the Iberian peninsula.