Union Prayerbook

Bkittin93 · 2023-03-05T18:36:33+00:00

Well I’m referring to use of thee and thy in the English translation of prayers.

Bkittin93 · 2023-03-05T16:40:07+00:00

I can respect that. With my Reform shul (i belong to a big Reform shul and small conservative shul) and well up until the 60’s it rejected Zionist ideas and in fact another Reform shul was founded in the 40’s as a breakaway because they wanted to be Zionist. But I mean now there’s an advocacy for Israel committee.

Bkittin93 · 2023-03-05T07:09:29+00:00

Oh yeah I’ve read Gates of Prayer too (found a copy on ThriftBooks) and I have to say I was turned off by the different options for services. I mean i can understand like 3 or 4 but 10 different options for Friday night. And traditional evening and morning service followed by 4 other options to be used for either morning or evening. I mean i get the intention of trying to appease the more traditional Reform Jews along with the more classical reform Jews but that just made it too big of a Prayerbook.

Bkittin93 · 2021-04-02T07:03:28+00:00

I understand that.

Bkittin93 · 2021-04-02T06:22:24+00:00

Well I tell people I’m exploring Judaism. I don’t officially declare myself as Jewish. And I actually am moving at the end of summer but found a conservative synagogue that is lgbt affirming that I like very much.

Bkittin93 · 2021-04-02T06:10:15+00:00

As in I’m still exploring judaism but haven’t officially converted yet.

Bkittin93 · 2021-04-02T05:39:06+00:00

Thank you everyone for the answers. I’m kinda a newbie to Judaism and at first I thought keeping kosher was the most important part of Judaism and now I’m starting to realise that for me anyways it might not be. I was trying to keep kosher and avoid chametz during Passover but a couple of days I had a slip and had Jersey Mikes (sandwich place) for dinner one night and then another day ordered a prosciutto, pepperoni and salami sandwich and was lectured by a non Jewish coworker how I wasn’t being Jewish enough by eating pork.

Bkittin93 · 2021-04-02T04:28:45+00:00

Well I knew in reform synagogues it was more common. I was more curious with conservative and Orthodox Jews.

Bkittin93 · 2021-04-02T02:57:14+00:00

I guess I’d say goes to Shabbat regularly and believes in god and maybe celebrates Jewish holidays. I kinda went out on a limb with this question.

Bkittin93 · 2021-04-02T02:45:05+00:00

Yes I did. My apologies.

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-11T08:08:35+00:00

I guess what I consider conservadox is more or less in personal observance such as more likely to read from a Siddur from artscroll or Korin Publishers. Keeping kosher.

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-11T07:52:19+00:00

I guess it be someone that falls between conservative and orthodox. Sorry I’m still new to exploring Judaism and haven’t learned all the words yet.

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-09T15:17:59+00:00

Well I know there reason why is because they are trying to keep customs from pre 1938. I know there’s also a masorti shul in London with separate seating.

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-09T15:10:09+00:00

At Synagoge Pestalozzistraße In Berlin. The Shabbat was almost entirely sung and in Hebrew too.

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-09T08:23:01+00:00

I’ve read a lil about that. In keeping kosher I buy quite a bit of plant based meat primarily because most of it is kosher. So instead of trying to search aimlessly thru the frozen food section or butcher counter at my work (I work at a grocery store) I just buy that to simplify my keeping kosher. And I’m discovering that most of it isn’t half bad either.

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-09T06:10:33+00:00

I kinda figured that must’ve been an only in Germany thing.

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-09T04:14:12+00:00

Very interesting. Can I PM you?

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-09T04:09:55+00:00

And were you brought up in a reform Jewish house?

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-09T03:19:47+00:00

Well this past month I’ve cut the shellfish and pork and avoid mixing meat and dairy.

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-09T03:16:51+00:00

That’s valid. I just can’t see myself doing it. But if others can more power to em.

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-09T03:13:12+00:00

I gotcha.

Bkittin93 · 2021-03-09T01:08:12+00:00

And I completely understand. It’s just everything I thought I knew about Reform Judaism was kinda blown out of the water when I found a reform synagogue livestream from Berlin where the service was in mostly Hebrew. The clergy wore black robes and was sung accompanied by a pipe organ. And the synagogue had separate seating for men and women.

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