Re: P.S.

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Oh:

>When you are looking at the bima,
>is it distracting to those reading torah or the sheliach tzibur?  Are they
>or the kavanah in the room somehow dimished because members of the
>congregation are looking at them?


Answer:  Yes.  That's why--or one of the reasons why, I think--in 
traditional synagogues (including, for many years, in some more traditional 
havurah [egalitarian] minyanim), the shaliach tzibur faces the *ark,* *not* 
the congregation.

--rlc
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