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cellio

kallah: (some) services

Jul 08, 2009 22:34

I attended a variety of services at the kallah (though I did not manage all three each day due to schedule complications). Here are some thoughts on some of them.
Shabbat morning had about six different options. I went to the service ( Read more... )

shabbat, vision, kallah, worship

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mabfan July 9 2009, 12:22:41 UTC

"And with that introduction, Jack chanted the preamble to the Declaration of Independence in haftarah trope."

I would have loved to have heard that.

chaos_wrangler July 10 2009, 01:08:10 UTC

I just read/summarized the bit about the preamble to the Declaration of Independence being chanted in haftarah trope to G. It sounds cool.

anonymous July 10 2009, 04:42:06 UTC

I'm with you on the whole projector thing. This is becoming more and more common in churches as well. Rather than giving a hymn number or a sheet/book with choruses in it, the words are projected onto a screen. Aside from the obvious problems for those of us whose vision is not correctable to 20/20, I find that it totally distracts me from focusing on the more important aspects of worship. I'm sorry, but bright and shiny text with a picture in the background commands my attention in a way that a piece of paper just cannot ( ... )