[HANASHIR:12870] RE: Mishkan T'fillah

[Joy Newman <joyzee...>]

Thanks to everybody who sent information about the 6th service.  (without 
G-d).  It's interesting to hear when and how the service was used.  I find 
the issue of faith extremely interesting, why and how people believe.  I 
think that because faith has always been a pillar of my Judaism, and the 
role that religion plays in my life, I find it hard to understand what one 
could use as a sort of "subsitute".  How do they explain the unexplainable?  
But I guess there doesn't need to be a substitute.  One of the neat things 
about belief that I emphasize when I teach the first commandment to my 3rd 
grade students, is that everybody believes in their own way.  And that's 
what makes faith special, that it's your personal connection and 
relationship to what you believe to be out there, to what you believe to be 
bigger than you.  For many, that "out there" part exists as G-d.  To me G-d 
represents my creator, and the idea that no matter what happens I will never 
be alone because G-d is always watching, but others see G-d in a completely 
different way.  And I think that's what makes faith so neat.

Thanks for the information, and good luck with the new prayer book.

~smile always~
-Joy






>From: Andy Curry <acurry (at) lenexa(dot)sema(dot)slb(dot)com>
>Reply-To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
>Subject: [HANASHIR:12859] RE: Mishkan T'fillah
>Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:47:09 -0600
>
>Joy,
>Some people close to me are members of a Jewish branch called "Humanistic 
>Judaism".  It's also referred to generically as "secular humanistic 
>Judaism".  They DO have religious services, but the words, where they can 
>be, are altered to refer to "the light" as well as other terms - i.e., the 
>light of *human* divinity, if we can speak in those terms.
>
>Personally, I believe that Judaism practiced in such a way is like a 
>two-legged stool.  But:  Judaism is really more of a family than a 
>religion, and we don't have to agree with all the members of our family, do 
>we?
>
>Kol tuv,
>Andy
>
>At 01:06 AM 11/17/2002 +0000, Joy Newman wrote:
>>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?
>>
>>~smile always~
>>-Joy Newman
>>Rochester, NY
>>
>>
>
>Andy Curry, Kansas City
>acurry (at) lenexa(dot)sema(dot)slb(dot)com
>


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