cellio | leading services

I'll be leading services next Friday night (June 22) at my synagogue, with both of my rabbis there so I can get constructive feedback. This is a great opportunity for me, both for my personal development and for my role in the congregation. I'm excited, and glad for the vote of confidence. (We've done this once before, and I hope to do it more times in the future. Most lay people don't get to lead this service except as part of a committee or something like that.)

I had asked my rabbi to give the sermon, and then all the congregations in town were contacted by an Israeli organization asking for pulpit time. So, no sermon but some sort of talk from visitors. The associate rabbi and I will split the torah reading. (Someone else signed up to read the same portion Shabbat morning so I offered it to her, but she declined.)

My rabbi gave me some good advice this week for dealing with my vision problem on the bimah, so we'll see how that goes.