[HANASHIR:12857] RE: Mishkan T'fillah

[Judy Hudspeth <jwshudspeth...>]

Hi Marsha!  I usually don't respond to stuff (I'm one of those lurkers...) 
but I was uncomfortable with your comment about the Service 6 not having God 
in it.  We use it for our "alternative/experimental" service because it so 
INclusive of God.  Rather than designating a specific prayer that uses the 
word, it feels like God is everywhere, and doesn't have to be pointed out.  
Guess it's in the eye of the beholder....

Judy Lewis






>From: Marsha Fensin <mfsings (at) ccr(dot)net>
>Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>Subject: [HANASHIR:12834] RE: Mishkan T'fillah
>Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:49:54 -0600
>
>Hi,
>     Although we are not piloting the new siddur, I did get a copy of both
>the Friday evening and Sat. morning services.  There are good points and 
>bad
>points so far.  I personally have loved the Gates of Prayer and except for
>service #6 ( You know, the one without G-d) and the gender sensitive 
>choice,
>I thought it was a great siddur.  I believe they have thrown out the baby
>with the bath water.
>     I haven't looked at it very thoroughly yet, but here goes:  I like the
>transliterations for ease of use and I like the choices of an accurate
>Hebrew translation and a more poetic one.  But, what happened to the whole
>idea of gender sensitive?  Also, the Gevurot starts out with "hakol" and
>then has "meitim" in the second paragraph.  Are we mixing metaphores here?
>There is no "Al Shlosha Devarim" choice in the Torah service. That's it so
>far.  As I peruse I will be sure to have more comments.
>Enjoy!
>Marsha
>


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