[HANASHIR:3630] Re: Bar'chu info

[Rabbi Richard Schachet <lvrabbi...>]

> Also, the reason Baruch Kevod is said softly is...back in the earliest
days
> of Hava Nashira (1140 C.E. in Troyes, France), the congregational
songleader
> returned from HN with a sore throat after singing so loudly all week...
> Therefore, on that Shabbat, she/he/it could not sing aloud and could
barely
> scratch out the Barchu or Shma or any other secular, nondenominational,
> nonethnocentric, pluralistic prayer.



This was funny



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