[HANASHIR:8283] Re: A woman's place

[WINSTON WEILHEIMER <nusach...>]

>
> > okay. here's another question, tho related. in gender sensitive 
>prayerbooks
> > and materials we happily expunge words like lord, and the pronoun he, 
>although
> > the actual hebrew is exactly that. but we leave in sabbath queen and 
>exalt the
> > feminine side of sh'chinah. anybody have a problem here?  if its good 
>for the
> > goose, is it good for the gander?  i am personally unsettled with the
> > un-sexing of liturgy, but wish to be free of oppresive modelling. what 
>do you
> > folks think?
>
>jonathan gordon
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one of my BIGGEST problems with the reconstructionist movement is gender 
neutral.  True Hashem has no gender.  However we all have internalized a 
vision of Hashem, male or female, and taking all gender out of prayer is you 
should pardon the expression emasaculating!  Some of us grew up with the 
idea of Hashem being an old man with a long white beard (Santa???) and 
others with other internalized vision.  When you use gender neutral prayers, 
this does not fit with each of our personalized concepts, and thus in my 
opinion takes away from our personal relationship with the Creator.

thats just my humble opinion on the subject!
winston

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