A word in favor of Channah's manner of prayer
Call me easily distracted and I'll plead guilty as charged, but I find it all too easy to lose my place in a prayer book when someone prays aloud. As stated in the haftarah for the morning of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, when Channah prayed, only her lips moved--she could not be heard. Davvening/praying shouldn't be a competition--if silent prayer was good enough for the mother of the prophet Shmuel/Samuel, it's good enough for me.
posted by Shira Salamone at 6:22 PM
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So you can't daven when the shaliach tzibur is davening? Maybe it doesn't work for you, but maybe it doesn't work for others to daven silently. I'm a quiet davener but I go to an Ortho shul that is noisy and disorganized with different people davening different things at different times. You have to learn to deal, you're not the only one in shul. And don't be so negative, it's likely not a "competition" it's how they're used to davening.
If you want quiet, go to church.
"it's likely not a "competition" it's how they're used to davening." You may very well be right in many cases, but I'm not convinced that that's always true. While some members of our congregation *always* davven loudly, it seems to me that our chazan/cantor davvens more loudly during the so-called Silent Amidah when a guest cantor or rabbi is leading.
"You have to learn to deal, you're not the only one in shul."
I'm working on it.
"If you want quiet, go to church."
Actually, I grew up in a Conservative synagogue in which the Silent Amidah was recited silently. And I later had a Conservative rabbi who was of the opinion that the Silent Amidah was *supposed to* be recited silently. Did that make those 2 synagogues more like churches? Not on Simchat Torah or Purim! :)
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