Feedback and Issues Raised
Written by Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet Friday, 01 October 2004
A Prayer Book in the Making
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We have now provided congregations with two experimental editions of the Prayerbook – the Shabbat morning draft and a compilation of services, including Erev Shabbat and Daily Services, which was used initially at the RSGB conference in June 2004. Feedback from the Shabbat draft led to a number of changes in the second volume, and as more congregations send us the results of discussions and questionnaires we continue to address the positive and negative comments. The Editorial Board is most appreciative of the enormous trouble that a number of congregations have gone to so as to give these drafts a fair exposure and then collect opinions.
On the whole the results have been positive about the general re-structuring of the services and the inclusion of more traditional material. There has also been a request for more new material, some of which will be available in the study anthology that is currently being developed. Perhaps the greatest challenge is finding or composing new prayers that speak to our needs today but which will continue to be relevant or helpful throughout the lifetime of the new prayer book. Those composed in the seventies for the current prayer book have lasted well, so we have included them in the draft versions. We welcome subjects that people feel need to be addressed today and examples that we can consider and edit.
Publication Date
In the light of the feedback which is carefully evaluated by the Editorial Board, and which will doubtless lead to a number of changes, we feel it important to allow more time for the editorial process to be completed. In practical terms this means that publication date will probably be postponed for a year, so that the prayerbook will appear in 2007, which would be exactly thirty years since the current volume was published.
The following are some of the issues that have arisen and which we are in the process of considering:
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