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[HANASHIR:3551] RE: This List



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
> Subject:      [HANASHIR:3542] This List
> 
> 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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