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morning services
That went pretty well. I led (part of) morning services at Tree of Life for the first time today, after the regular guy was sufficiently insistent last week. I stumbled in a couple places but not badly (I recovered). Lots of people complimented me afterward, and the regular guy wants me to do this much regularly and learn the rest. So I'll keep working on that.
I led the opening prayers (through yotzeir), and then wasn't sure whether I should stay on the bima or slip back to the regular seats. (Yay, choreography. No one ever thinks about that.) So I stayed on the "don't draw attention by moving" principle, and when we got to the torah service the gabbai gave me an aliya. He also had me lead the concluding prayers. I'll take this as some base level of validation. :-)
Implementation note: the leader's copy of the siddur is conveniently marked up with highlighter and hand-written page cues. In the future I won't use it, though; while this shouldn't be an issue with highlighter pens, I found that the pink they used reduced contrast just enough that I had trouble reading some of the similar letters (e.g. I mistook a dalet for a reish, and stumbled on some vowels). I hadn't realized that this siddur is so close to the legibility line for me that a little pink marker makes a difference. (Many congregations use a larger siddur, with correspondingly larger print, on the bima, but this one doesn't seem to.)
I led the opening prayers (through yotzeir), and then wasn't sure whether I should stay on the bima or slip back to the regular seats. (Yay, choreography. No one ever thinks about that.) So I stayed on the "don't draw attention by moving" principle, and when we got to the torah service the gabbai gave me an aliya. He also had me lead the concluding prayers. I'll take this as some base level of validation. :-)
Implementation note: the leader's copy of the siddur is conveniently marked up with highlighter and hand-written page cues. In the future I won't use it, though; while this shouldn't be an issue with highlighter pens, I found that the pink they used reduced contrast just enough that I had trouble reading some of the similar letters (e.g. I mistook a dalet for a reish, and stumbled on some vowels). I hadn't realized that this siddur is so close to the legibility line for me that a little pink marker makes a difference. (Many congregations use a larger siddur, with correspondingly larger print, on the bima, but this one doesn't seem to.)