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takebackourtemple:
--- Quote from: Zelhar on September 05, 2008, 09:41:23 AM ---I find public prayers incredibly boring and I never go to the synagogue.
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Then the important thing is to find one's that are not boring. If you are like me, standing in a crowded room and listening to prayers that I have no clue what is being said makes things boring. When everyone sings the well known prayers in unison, then they are not boring at all. I sure do lose interest though when everyone mumbles at their own pace or when everyone sings out of sync. That is why I like Friday night services before than the Saturday morning ones. We sing Yidid Nefesh and LaChad Dodi and the services are not as long. It is only recently that I started going to both Friday night and Saturday morning services. If you find the Saturday services boring, I would recommend trying Friday night services as a start. Once you get the hang of the Friday night services, the Saturday morning ones will become more appealing.
I also recommend that you look around for the right synagogue. Synagogue's are not one size fits all. Each one is different and even within a type of synagogue such as a Sefardi one or a Chabad one, things are conducted differently.
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--- Quote from: Tzvi Ben Roshel on September 05, 2008, 01:20:39 PM ---
--- Quote from: Zelhar on September 05, 2008, 09:41:23 AM ---I find public prayers incredibly boring and I never go to the synagogue.
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You should go to a Sefaradi shul. Very livly. Go to the Selihot prayers this month, also even the regular prayers- its uplifting.
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one shouldn't pick and choose his minhag based on the service he prefers.
there are lively ashkenazi services too.. many smaller shuls have them.
sephardim , just like ashkenazim, also have the big shuls with the long drawn out service, and the small ones with the livelier services.
I don't know if zelhar is ashkenazi or sephardi, but I don't tihnk you'd like it if sephardim didn't like the service in their shul, and ashkenazim were taking advantage of it and telling them to come to ashkenazi shuls instead. And, as if -that's- the problem
Tzvi Ben Roshel1:
qq- usually Sefardi shuls are livly. I mean I never have been in or heard of a boring Sefardi shul. (and the big ones, are even more exciting, becuase more people). No offense to Askenazim, but the style is different. Even though their are parts where everyone prays and sings together, it is not to the extent that Sefardim have.
Harzel:
I'm Ashkenazi but I am not too particular about what Schul to go if any as I know very little about prayers anyway. There are both kind of schuls nearby and both are attended mainly by elderly people, especially the Ashkenazis where I think the average age of a regular attender is 80...
The thing is that I don't like the idea of prayer altogether. To me it seems a better idea to address God individually rather than by preset times and texts. I don't think I can identify with each preset prayer so what's the point of joining in such a prayer ?
Anyway attending Schul in Sabbat is out of the question from my part, at most I might go in the high holidays.
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--- Quote from: Tzvi Ben Roshel on September 07, 2008, 02:34:50 PM ---qq- usually Sefaradi shuls are livly. I mean I never have been in or heard of a boring Sefaradi shul. (and the big ones, are even more exciting, becuase more people). No offense to Askenazim, but the style is different. Even though their are parts where everyone prays and sings together, it is not to the extent that Sefaradim have.
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come to the UK and i'll send you to the most boring shul you've ever seen. It's sephardi.
it's a very old shul.
They have a chazzan that elongates the service and sings more than any chazzan in any ashkenazi shul. Of course, there are more old ashkenazi shuls than old sephardi ones. Hence your statistic that usually sephardi shuls are lively. But avoid the old shuls
Point is.. There are many many young communities with lively shuls. The big old shuls are going out of fashion.
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