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How does the order of service go in Judaism?
Are there any instruments used & special vocals in the praise & worship?
Are there any instruments used & special vocals in the praise & worship?
dauer said:This one is not a literal translation, but the meaning is retained, it can be read smoothly, and it's attempted to be translated in a way that stays alive. The downside is that sometimes it can get very interpretive, and sometimes it uses new agey language. One common interpretive translation is melech haolam, which literally means king of the world, translated as cosmic majesty.
Dauer
we have a similiar thing where psalms are set to music & some words are emphasized. i dont recall any written prayers like this, but many passages of scripture to help memorize them. i have always found that to be a good approach.The Transliterated Siddur is intended to help Jews who are learning to recite the traditional prayers. Permission is granted to individuals to print or download pages for private study and for insertion into the corresponding pages of their Hebrew-English Siddur.
Where I pray, drums and guitar are sometimes used. Some places use organ. But traditionally no instruments are used because we are in mourning for the Beit HaMikdash.
Sometimes singing is done in a sort of droning, sea-like, speech by all of the people present. Each person is not sea-like, but each one adds to the sea of sound. Sometimes there is a choir. This is borrowed from Christianity and doesn't happen in Orthodoxy.
we have a similiar thing where psalms are set to music & some words are emphasized. i dont recall any written prayers like this, but many passages of scripture to help memorize them. i have always found that to be a good approach.
this HaMikdash is not year round though. right?
is (sea like) similiar to many voices, the sound of many waters? like the sound of a waterfall where the voices do not change in notation.
i wonder why orthodox does not have a choir. i know some people feel the words & meanings can be lost & not pronounced correctly by too many voices and choir music is a little different from what can be achieved through solo.
i have always found a choir to be enhancing to the service.
bananabrain said:one of the things i think that people miss about the structure is that it effectively contains its own instructions, rather like those capsules we send off into space. there is also an underlying mystical structure to the service which, imho, most people are entirely unaware of other than the usual stuff about everything before "hodu" being assiyah, then psukei d'zimra being yetzirah, shema-blessings being beriah and then the amidah being atzilut. what people seem to have missed is the fact that the "Torah service" is effectively the "emanation" of Torah. all you have to do is look at the symbolic layout; the ark being heaven, the bimah being earth and the procession being the transmission process. in fact, this is also true of certain aspects of the Temple service.
b'shalom
bananabrain
dauer said:Well, that's just it. All the voices are changing. But they're all changing in slightly varied ways. Like rain drops on a highly varied surface, each with a slightly different tune.
I like choirs as long as the service doesn't turn into a concert. I like participatory services and if the choir (or the cantor) start to really put on a show, leaving everyone else to just watch, that I don't appreciate. But if the choir can raise up the participation, that I would be more inclined to have.
Dauer
well, i don't know exactly how old it is, as the service as we have it now is only 2000 years old, dating back to the destruction of the Temple (before that the personal structured contemplation of the "18 benedictions" of the amidah were what is referred to as "prayer", at least in the Mishnah) - the question then becomes how mystical the structure of the Temple service was; and there's plenty of evidence for that, except that it is quite hard to prove how old the interpretation (as opposed to the actual structure) is. however, many authorities have no difficulty whatsoever identifying kabbalistic structures in the Torah and NaKh, everything from the "binding of isaac" (see the thread on that in this forum) and the abrahamic "covenant of the parts" to the davidic blessing in chronicles (the source of the hermetic formula "AGLA") and the description of elijah's prophetic techniques and the midrashic descriptions of the behaviour of the "cherubs" in the Holy of Holies. i think you can find what you look for - or, alternatively, fail to find evidence to convince of things you are sceptical of. it's really down to the degree of personal mystical insight and education.BB, do you think the mystical part of the 'structure' of service is something that has always been there (since ancient times)? but not everyone recognizes it, say until later on in life?
bananabrain said:well, i don't know exactly how old it is, as the service as we have it now is only 2000 years old, dating back to the destruction of the Temple (before that the personal structured contemplation of the "18 benedictions" of the amidah were what is referred to as "prayer", at least in the Mishnah) - the question then becomes how mystical the structure of the Temple service was; and there's plenty of evidence for that, except that it is quite hard to prove how old the interpretation (as opposed to the actual structure) is. however, many authorities have no difficulty whatsoever identifying kabbalistic structures in the Torah and NaKh, everything from the "binding of isaac" (see the thread on that in this forum) and the abrahamic "covenant of the parts" to the davidic blessing in chronicles (the source of the hermetic formula "AGLA") and the description of elijah's prophetic techniques and the midrashic descriptions of the behaviour of the "cherubs" in the Holy of Holies. i think you can find what you look for - or, alternatively, fail to find evidence to convince of things you are sceptical of. it's really down to the degree of personal mystical insight and education.
b'shalom
bananabrain
Bandit said:i want to bring up the cerubs in the holy of holies. do you think there is enough there to make a thread on it (holy of holies) & discuss it on its own? or just do it in this thread?
i would guess that it must have started real thick there in the holy of holies when God agreed to commune there.![]()
pohaikawahine said:I would deeply appreciate it if someone would tell me about the cerubs in the holy of holies or give me a reference to find it myself .... aloha nui, poh
dauer said:Poh, if you're interested in Temple structure and service, you may want to study some gemara, maybe seder kodashim (that's not something small.) BB would be better at telling you the best place to begin study, since he has a stronger background in that. I've only studied berachot, although done quite a bit more mishna on my own. At the very least it will tell you one perspective on second temple period practices.
Dauer