Comments | cellio: Mishkan T'fillah: evaluation

cellio

Mishkan T'fillah: evaluation

Jan 30, 2003 22:39

Following is the meat of my response to the evaluation form for the new siddur. The questionaire has several ratings questions, demographics, short-answer questions (they left space for a couple sentences per), and the obligatory "any other comments?" invitation. I'm not going to transcribe all the ratings questions, but I will comment on a few.
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liturgy, mishkan t'filah

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goljerp January 31 2003, 05:01:53 UTC

I am surprised that they asked whether we think the book should be Hebrew-opening or English-opening (that is, whether you start from the "back", from standard POV, or the "front").

Doesn't surprise me at all. I remember back in college we had a mixed bag of the old GOPs, some of which opened one way, others the other. I think that some congregations liked the english-opening format, so nobody would be confused (except those who expect siddurim to open in the hebrew way).

They asked how many times a year we attend Shabbat services, counting Friday night and Saturday morning separately; options were: fewer than 10, 10-20, and more than 20. Umm... max possible is over 100; I thought they would set the scale differently.Interesting. I would've given the following options ( ... )