[HANASHIR:4768] Music for Shabbat Shira

[LSOLKOWITZ <LSOLKOWITZ...>]

I'd like to throw my shekels into the pot as well.  Since it is Shabbat 
Shirah, I feel that the congregation should do the singing.  To this end I 
would teach a niggun at the beginning of the service and repeat it during the 
service both as a niggun and as the tune for various prayers (along the lines 
of Debbie's Havdalah).  I would also mix in the congregation's traditional 
tunes, to provide them with the experience of prayer through song.  I would 
also minimize readings.  I remember doing this at camp once and it was really 
beautiful.

Just a thought...

Laura Solkowitz
Hillel Program Coordinator
919-844-4613
lsolkowitz (at) aol(dot)com

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