[HANASHIR:5549] RE: Adonai s'fatai tiftakh

[Andy Curry <acurry...>]

Bruce,

My point is that, regardless of WHAT the custom is, it becomes tradition.
If you had only attended services at a Reform synagogue and then went to a
Conservative synagogue one day, you would be quite surprised when not
everybody stood to recite Mourner's Kaddish, because in Reform TRADITION
everyone does so (and, I might add, some Reform rabbis are quite insistent
about it, no less than an Orthodox rabbi would insist on head covering).
This is why I'm always a little hesitant to say "in traditional Judaism" -
all variants are traditional!  

I didn't really want to make ANY observation on the relative merits of any
tradition.

Again,
Good Shabbos!

Andy

At 09:52 AM 3/24/00 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 3/24/2000 9:42:52 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
>acurry (at) CellNet(dot)com writes:
>
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> Reform Judaism is, in my observation, no less traditional in its worship
> than is Orthodox Judaism; it's just that the tradition is different.
>
>Come on ..lets not pretend to ignore history...Reform tried to recreate the 
>same style in prayer that was occurring in the churches of the neighbors of 
>the Jews in Germany and now in America. There is hardly any (Jewish) 
>tradition in Reform services. The entire format of the service from the 
>leadership to the music to the language to the lack of personal
participation 
>is more church like than Jewish. Don't jump all over me because I am not 
>saying that Reform services lack spirituallity, content or prayerful 
>potential. I am pointing out that if you assert  there is tradition it is
not 
>I'm sorry to say...Jewish. Go to an orthodox shul and see if you know whats 
>going on or if you can follow? You'll see how Jewishly traditional Reform 
>services are.
>
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