Responding to Feedback - Page 2
Written by Rabbi Professor Jonathan Magonet
| Article Index |
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| Responding to Feedback |
| Informed Choice |
| So, What's New? |
| A New Layout |
| Feedback and Responses |
| Traditional and Progressive |
| The Siddue as a Whole |
| What Remains to be Done |
| All Pages |
Informed Choice
The first attempt raised an immediate problem. To try to run separately ‘classic’ reform and more traditional Shabbat services meant an enormous amount of duplicating of passages, which seemed a waste of space and added to the potential weight of the book. By the time the 2003 draft came out, a method had been devised to minimise the repetition, for example by starting the Friday Evening Service at different places for different styles of service. The other major change was to clarify something that had been blurred in the previous edition, namely the two distinct sections of the Morning Service, the birchot ha-shachar (Morning Blessings) and p’sukei d’zimra (Verses of Song) that preceded the ‘Bar’chu’ and the formal part of the service. But in replacing the six different ‘introductions’ to the Shabbat morning service of the current Siddur, we returned the responsibility for choosing which passages from these two sections to use to the service leader. By so doing some additional page-skipping was also required which would take some getting used to until a regular routine was evolved.
Another major innovation was to offer an alternative to the traditional form of the Torah service, reflecting the theme of revelation, and a short version to be used when more attention could be placed on studying the portion.
