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.
Today marks the beginning of the Three Weeks, the period from the 17th of Tammuz through the 9th of Av where all are invited into a process of mourning that which has been destroyed, yearning for what has yet to be, and public customs that allow us to mark this period in caring, connective community.
This voices-only rendition of Karov L’Shavateinu - a powerful nigun recorded together by musicians who set aside their instruments as they raised their voices - creatively sets the traditional liturgy for fast days, offering an opportunity for deepened personal prayer and heightened communal yearning throughout the Three Weeks, and any time we seek connection and comfort amid difficulty and distress.
הֱיֵה נָא קָרוֹב לְשַׁוְעָתֵנוּ
יְהִי־נָא חַסְדְּךָ לְנַחֲמֵנוּ
𝐻𝑒’𝑦𝑒𝑖ℎ 𝑛𝑎 𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑣 𝑙’𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑢
𝑌𝑒ℎ𝑖-𝑛𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑠’𝑑𝑒𝑘ℎ𝑎 𝑙’𝑛𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑎’𝑚𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑢
“Please be near to our cry
Let Your loving kindness console us”
Stream, purchase, or download this track on Rabbi Deborah Sacks Mintz's new album Yetzira, anywhere you get your music.
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.
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