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[cellio]

Busy week, liturgically speaking. (And I'm just fine with that. :-) )

Tonight I knew I would be leading mincha, so while eating the blandest Thai food I have ever had (sigh) I mapped out the mini-sermon. No one else showed up, though; maybe people concluded that no rabbi means no service, though they oughtn't have. Shrug. So I got to daven at my own pace in my preferred language; that worked out fine for me.

Tomorrow night I'm the cantorial soloist at my congregation (yay!). This morning I got the one piece of sheet music I'd been waiting for; fortunately, I mostly knew the song already. So that'll be fine, I think. Saturday morning I lead torah study and then the morning service; that service nearly runs itself, so my role is to provide start pitches and come up with a question for the ice-breaker. Hmm; better not forget about the question.

And then there's the morning minyan I attend on Thursdays. A couple of the guys have been asking me for a while to lead that service; I'm working on learning it, but I'll admit I've been slacking recently what with HUC and all. And I hesitate to step on the toes of the guy who normally does it. This morning he asked me when I was going to do it. (They gave me the concluding prayers this morning, so I guess that prompted the thought.) We haggled, with me saying things like "we have to talk about page 31" and him saying "ok, you don't have to do the whole thing first time out", and we ended up deciding that I'll do the opening prayers (up through Barchu) next week. So there are a couple bits I should touch a few times before then, but I'm feeling pretty confident about that. We'll see how that goes.

Whee!

(We still have to find some way for my rabbi to actually see me in the service-leader role, so he can provide constructive feedback so I can get better, but that'll obviously have to wait.)

Comments

[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

I looked at the keychains today for you. They have ones with the prayer in Hebrew and ones with the prayer in English. Do you have a preference? The ones with Hebrew are Hamsas. The English ones are more varied. Also, I assume you prefer less bulk than more? Some of the Hebrew ones (most of them, actually, are miniature shadow boxes.

[aliza250.livejournal.com]

(We still have to find some way for my rabbi to actually see me in the service-leader role, so he can provide constructive feedback so I can get better, but that'll obviously have to wait.)

Cough/cold season is coming.