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I need help with learning the Sabbath Eve Kiddush

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takebackourtemple:
   Prayers are empty without meaning. Maybe if I just memorize all the sounds they will mean something to someone else, but not to me. I cannot learn the Hebrew without the unmodified translation. Tonight I will make another attempt to piece everything together.

q_q_:
yes, prayers are empty without meaning..

so focus on the fact that you are praising G-d.   

But the fact is, that if you want to say it without getting it wrong in front of everybody, then make sure you can read it fluently.

If you want to look at what all the words mean, before you can read it fluently, then you may go out there not reading it fluently.

The prayer is not meaningless if you do not know what it means.  Know that you are praising G-d.  Do look into what it means.. But not at the cost of reading it fluently.  Rule number 1 is to read it fluently. 

That is not just to save you embarassement (if not reading it fluently is embarassing for you)..
But also because you are saying it on behalf of everybody.

takebackourtemple:
I need it to read it fluently. It is not at the cost of reading it fluently.

q_q_:

--- Quote from: takebackourtemple on March 10, 2008, 10:19:44 PM ---I need it to read it fluently. It is not at the cost of reading it fluently.

--- End quote ---

indeed

takebackourtemple:
I'm still working on it. I'm getting better. Right now it's the parts that I understand that I can breeze through like I'm talking, the parts that i don't understand are where I keep stumbling.

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