[HANASHIR:12835] RE: Mishkan T'fillah

[Joy Newman <joyzee...>]

I just have a question about this new siddur (or actually...I think it's a 
question about the old one).  How does a Jewish service exist without G-d?  
How does that work?  What are the prayers oriented to?  To what does one 
pray?  I understand that a big part of Judaism is to question, to question 
one's faith and how the role of G-d is played out in daily life, but the 
underlying idea behind those questions is that one believes.  Without that 
basic belief, what is there to question?  If you don't believe at all then 
there would be no questions because you just wouldn't believe. If you had 
absolutely no faith, even the slightest bit (ie: belief in G-d), why would 
you question that which you don't believe exists?  This issue came up at the 
Sunday school where I teach last week, and I just don't understand.  When I 
saw that there was a service without G-d, I just couldn't help asking how 
that works!

Thanks for your information!  I just...conceptially this blows my mind, and 
I want to understand how and why this service works.

~smile always~
-Joy Newman
Rochester, NY


>I personally have loved the Gates of Prayer and except for
>service #6 ( You know, the one without G-d)

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