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reading torah
We have a visiting cantor coming in a month (for one Shabbat). When we have a visitor (cantor or rabbi), the informal service gets merged into a general morning service. So I'd been told not to line up a lay torah reader for that date.
Then an administrator told me that we should have someone read after all (the cantor prefers to not stomp on existing traditions, or something). I responded that I would take it myself if they like (getting a little tight for some of the other readers), except that I assumed that our rabbi would read instead so she should ask.
I just got mail saying "he said you should do it". Woot!
So I get to read torah in front of the larger congregation (not just our minyan), and in front of my rabbi (which basically never happens, because the lay readers fill in when he can't be there). I'm psyched. :-)
And with that, off to trope class.
Then an administrator told me that we should have someone read after all (the cantor prefers to not stomp on existing traditions, or something). I responded that I would take it myself if they like (getting a little tight for some of the other readers), except that I assumed that our rabbi would read instead so she should ask.
I just got mail saying "he said you should do it". Woot!
So I get to read torah in front of the larger congregation (not just our minyan), and in front of my rabbi (which basically never happens, because the lay readers fill in when he can't be there). I'm psyched. :-)
And with that, off to trope class.