Q&A: On the prayer rite the Rabbi uses.
On the prayer rite the Rabbi uses.
Question
Hello Rabbi. Which prayer rite does the Rabbi use in prayer (on Friday night)
Unified rite? Ashkenazi?
My synagogue uses the unified rite (they sing “Beloved of the Soul” with wonderful melodies!)
(Something like this, you could say… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG7lQlofMbg)
Maybe the Rabbi could also prepare a column about this; there’s too much intellect on this site! How about talking a bit about the beauty of our Judaism?!
Answer
What beauty our Judaism has! Mainly the Sefard rite.
There, I wrote it.
Discussion on Answer
Good thing you added that this is a serious question, otherwise I wouldn’t have believed you.
What difference does the prayer rite make? What I’m used to is my custom, and that’s what I do. If people say “and may his redemption flourish,” does the world collapse?
From my point of view, certainly not, but I thought that maybe from your point of view it could be a matter of making a statement……. that’s why I asked.
I myself pray in the Sefard rite as both a family custom and the custom of my community and the institutions where I grew up/studied, and also as someone who actually identifies with Hasidism and has a Hasidic character.
But you? That’s what I was wondering about.
Rabbi, you pray in the Sefard rite? I’m pretty surprised, because I know you as a full-blooded Litvak and not really a “Hasid,” and after all the Sefard rite is a rite that the Hasidim invented, and there was quite a bit of uproar over it—who gave them the right to change the ancestral rite, etc.
From your perspective, is it not important to pray specifically in the Ashkenazi rite, in the sense of “and separated us from those who go astray”?
I’m asking not sarcastically but seriously……..