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- From: Steve Greenberg <SIG...>
- Subject: [HANASHIR:3551] RE: This List
- Date: Tue 20 Jul 1999 14.45 (GMT)
I "second" your sentiments.
Steve Greenberg
Minneapolis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: NeilNFW (at) aol(dot)com [SMTP:NeilNFW (at) aol(dot)com]
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 9:57 PM
> To: hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
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>
> Hello all,
>
> I have been a member of this list for three years now. When I first
> signed
> on, I was treated to a creative sharing of ideas and a place where
> songleaders could seek aid in finding sources and new material. It was
> also
> a fun place with an occasional weird joke by Brian Serle or a
> toungue-in-cheek comment from Rick Lupert.
>
> I am troubled by the number of times that I have seen a question phrased
> "I
> am doing such and such. Is this OK?" and many responses coming back "I
> would
> never..." or "Halachically speaking...." We are not a council or
> governing
> body. The music that we create, the atmosphere that we create must live
> through each of us or die. I think that it is great that someone has
> added a
> verse to "Master of all Things," or that someone wants to do L'cha Dodi
> when
> they feel it is appropriate. Tradition may dictate otherwise, but
> tradition
> is also a living thing. If I want to set a mood by singing Sim Shalom at
> the
> beginning of a Friday night service, I think that's peachy. Will I be
> stricken and cursed because Sim Shalom is a "morning prayer?" Will I be
> expelled by my congregation? No. I will still be a songleader the next
> morning.
>
> A question: I take requests during religion school. Have any of you who
> do
> the same ever said "no" to a song becuase it is the wrong time of year? I
>
> won't say no to a student who wants to sing "O! Chanukah" in February.
> That
> student has a love for the music. What I do is now living through him or
> her.
>
> Please, there are so many negatives in life. Let's not set dicta. Let's
>
> not come down on people simply because we have are own opinions, which are
>
> merely that. Let's share and expand and live.
>
> Yours,
> Neil Weinstein
> Bellevue, WA
>
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