Saturday, February 7, 2015
Services
Services are one of my favorite parts of being Jewish. Even though I don't believe in God praying is a way for me to express my "love" for Judaism. I found my love for services at Camp when my song leader started make different versions of some of our prayers that we could all connect to. Incorporating modern songs with some of prayers really pulled me into a love for services. Being able to have a good time while praying is really what it's all about. Services aren't meant to be a burden and these songs for me created this into something that is enjoyable. In EIE we do the exact same thing which shows me that this movement of incorporating other songs into prayer is across the country. When we were at the synagogues last night I heard to new versions of prayer, Hallelujah to Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley and another prayer that I can't remember was to Hit the Road Jack. The world is changing and so is Judaism. We'll always have these meaningful prayers but who says they can't be to some modern music.
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Do you find that there's a tension between trying new things and the importance of tradition? Are there any aspects of the tfilah that you wouldn't be willing to do differently? For example, if someone wanted to rap the Torah portion, how would you feel about that? Great blog post!
ReplyDeleteI think there would be tension if we started to rap the torah portion but for what were doing right now I don't think so. Orthodox Jews look down on it but between the reform community I would think it's an accepted change.
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