[HANASHIR:9148] Re: Proper Topics for HN list

[Meris Ruzow <meris...>]

Bravo Ethan!   These topics are not only relevant to what we do and why we
do.... but they strengthen us in our own beliefs and help us deal with
questions that we will certainly  have to deal with at some time in our
professions.     If one is only interested in "Can I share a van with you?"
then I agree, we will certainly lose a good deal of our subscribers.

Thank you Adrian, for the balancing act you must constantly do.
Meris Ruzow
meris (at) nycap(dot)rr(dot)com

-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan Leigh Bueno de Mesquita <mesquita (at) fas(dot)harvard(dot)edu>
To: Jewish Songleading/Music <hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 8:56 AM
Subject: [HANASHIR:9147] Re: Proper Topics for HN list


>Jerry and Adrian,
>
>I have to say, I find this most recent warning of the possibility of
>slipping off topic bizaar. First of all, the main thread of late has been
>a discussion of instruments on Shabbat and the halakha surrounding them.
>Now, this has led to some debate over our relationship to halakha and
>questions about mourning rituals. And, while not actually about
>music, per se, these discussions are important ones for Jewish
>educators to have and they grew out of a discussion about the use of
>music on Shabbat. If we are restricted to stop discussing a musical topic
>as soon as it touches on some non-music related issue, then we are doomed
>to have boring and shallow discussions that do not help us confront
>important questions. Why would we suspect that all questions related to
>the use of music in prayer have a musical answer. It may be that to think
>through them in a sophisticated way we have to consider broader
>theological questions. Such issues are not incidental to Jewish music,
>they are foundational. I submit to you that you will lose a valuable
>subset of the subscribers to this list if you choose to eliminate these
>sorts of discussions. I, for one, am not hanging around for the "does
>anyone know a song by Debbie Friedman about (fill in topic here)?"
>discussions, but for discussions that raise the important theological and
>philosophical issues that people who are teaching music and leading prayer
>face on a regular basis.
>
>On a more practical note. For people who feel that they receive too much
>email from this list, there is an easy solution, digest the list. Send an
>email to listproc (at) shamash(dot)org whose text is "set hanashir mail digest"
>The result will be one email per day with all the messages.
>
>Ok, back to my dissertation.
>
>Ethan
>*******************************
>Ethan Bueno de Mesquita
>Ph.D. Candidate
>
>mesquita (at) fas(dot)harvard(dot)edu
>www.fas.harvard.edu/~mesquita
>
>Department of Government
>Littauer Center, North Yard
>Harvard University
>Cambridge, MA  02138
>(617) 384-7303 (office)
>
>"Can lack of bias ever compensate for absence of insight?"
> -Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
>
>On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jewish Songleading/Music wrote:
>
>>
>>     HANASHIR Digest 1238
>>
>> Topics covered in this issue include:
>>
>>   1)  Fwd: Re: halacha against instrumentation
>> by Janisbl (at) aol(dot)com
>>   2)  Belief vs action in Judaism
>> by "Tamar D. Earnest MD" <tde (at) fast(dot)net>
>>   3)  Re: Fwd: Re: halacha against instrumentation
>> by BEBWH (at) aol(dot)com
>>   4)  Re: halacha against instrumentation
>> by "Tamar D. Earnest MD" <tde (at) fast(dot)net>
>>   5)  Re: Fwd: Re: halacha against instrumentation
>> by Eric Simon <erics (at) radix(dot)net>
>>   6)  RE: Jewish organists
>> by Richard Glauber <richglauber (at) yahoo(dot)com>
>>   7)  RE: Jewish organists
>> by Eric Simon <erics (at) radix(dot)net>
>>   8)  RE: Jewish organists
>> by "Adrian Durlester" <durleste (at) home(dot)com>
>>   9)  RE: Jewish organists
>> by BEBWH (at) aol(dot)com
>>  10)  Re: Fwd: Re: halacha against instrumentation
>> by QuelliPG (at) aol(dot)com
>>  11)  Re: Belief vs action in Judaism
>> by GKaye (at) aol(dot)com
>>  12)  Return Again authorship
>> by "H & R Shubert" <notfranz (at) total(dot)net>
>>  13)  Re: Proper topics for HN List
>> by Andy Curry <acurry (at) san-carlos(dot)rms(dot)slb(dot)com>
>>  14)  Re: Kol Bamidbar
>> by "Meris Ruzow" <meris (at) nycap(dot)rr(dot)com>
>>
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