Re: mitzvot music

[Ms. Cat <alanamscat...>]

I only meant it would be scanty evidence to claim that
Reform weren't practicing Jews, a point with which I
don't think you disagree.
 
Alana
--- Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer (at) columbia(dot)edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, Ms. Cat wrote:
> 
> > Well, that seems a bit scanty evidence to make
> sucha
> > claim.
> 
> I'm not sure what claim you think I was making. I
> was just providing
> evidence that _some_ Jews do include vows in their
> wedding ceremonies, and
> (what I thought was a funny anecdote) about a
> Catholic wedding I attended.
> 
> There's nothing anti-jewish about vows
> > (although Jews are discouraged from making them
> > because they're so serious, a wedding would
> certainly
> > be an appropriate place for them) they're just not
> > part of the wedding ceremony, so I would have
> trouble
> > figuring out how you would know how to program
> music
> > for them, since I suppose they could be inserted
> just
> > about anywhere, and take any amount of time.
> 
> Exactly. That's my whole point. There's no way a
> musician could
> intuitively know, so you have to talk to the
> participants ahead of time to
> figure out exactly what they are planning (and
> expecting) for their
> wedding. This is the _only_ point I've been trying
> to make with this
> thread.
> 
> -jeremy
> 
> 
>
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