A tallit-and-tefillin-wearing woman in a traditional Conservative synagogue?! An unorthodox—and non-orthodox—perspective on Jews and Judaism from a perpetual misfit. This blog, welcoming the entire Jewish community, is dedicated to those who take Judaism seriously, but not necessarily literally.
It's bad enough that almost no one in our synagogue gives us any Mishloach Manot, but why don't they give any to other congregants, especially given the fact that some of our fellow and/or sister congregants have known one another for over forty years? Do they think they're exempt from performing this mitzvah just because they're retired?
posted by Shira Salamone at 1:46 PM
Once upon a time, I belonged to a left-wing egalitarian Conservative synagogue, where I was one of a number of women who wore a tallit—and one of the few members who used an Orthodox prayer book (adding the Mothers, of course). Having moved since then, I now belong to a right-wing traditional Conservative synagogue, where I’m almost always the only woman wearing a tallit—and one of the few members who adds the Mothers. I seem destined to be forever . . . on the fringe.
3 Comments:
If it's a really fixed income, then yes, I think they are excused. =D
Tevel: The mitzvah is fulfilled by delivering two different ready-to-eat foods to one person. Even of a fixed income most people can afford to give an apple and a candy bar to one person.
Larry, that's pretty much what I have in mind. There's no law that a person has to give out $20 Mishloach Manot packages. It seems such a shame that such old friends don't give Mishloach Manot to one another.
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