Adopting and Integrating Mishkan T’filah into Congregational Worship

1. Adopting and Integrating Mishkan T’filah into Congregational Worship Rabbi Sue Levi Elwell Cantor Alane S. Katzew Worship Specialist and Music Specialist, Congregational Consulting Group slelwell@urj.org, akatzew@urj.org 212.452.6728, 212.650.4193 Please Note: This webinar is being recorded. Both this recording and this PowerPoint presentation will be archived at www.urj.org/webinars

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6. Adopting and Integrating Mishkan T’filah into Congregational Worship

7. What makes worship successful? • Planning – One should never stand up to pray without appropriate seriousness. In fact, the pious ones used to meditate one hour before praying and would ask God to help them during that time to focus their hearts on the task. Mishnah B’rachot 5:1

8. What goes into the planning? • Band Rehearsal for Shabbat Worship & Torah Reading preparation, choreography. • www.biennial.urj.org • (See the video “Memories” at 5:16 - 5:43)

9. What makes worship successful? • Kevah There are fixed elements of prayer, thus the Prayer book or – siddur from the root  meaning order. “The structural fixity, the rhetorical rules for prayer, the fixed succession of themes that inevitably constitute a service no matter what words were used.” Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman

10. What makes worship successful? Gates of Prayer and Mishkan T’filah have the same Keva or fixed order of Prayers. Worship is at least in part habituated. Careful attention while introducing Mishkan T’filah to maintaining the Minhag Hamakom or familiar customs of the community is helpful. Mishkan T’filah helps to easily identify the fixed order of prayer by listing the prayer rubrics in sequence, in Hebrew at the right and transliteration at the left side of the pages. October 2, 2014 10

11. Which Version of Mishkan T’filah will you/do you use? • Mishkan T’filah for Shabbat • Mishkan T’filah for Weekdays and Festivals • Large print edition available • Mishkan T’filah for Shabbat, Weekdays and Festivals • With or without transliteration • Mishkan T’filah for Gatherings (Shabbat & Weekday) • Mishkan T’filah for Travelers (Shabbat, Weekday and Festivals) • Mishkan T’filah; Pulpit edition (Coming this week!) • With transliteration only • To order: http://www.ccarpress.org

12. Know your Minhag Hamakom. What are yourCongregational Customs? • Who is involved in kindling the Shabbat Candles? What impact does this have upon the congregation?

13. What makes worship successful? Kavanah -  - Intention There is also Kavanah , “which is the creativity or spontaneity… that comes through inner concentration by each worshiper. Kavanah is the direction of one’s heart, but it does not exist in isolation from other variables.” Rabbi Lawrence Hoffman . October 2, 2014 13

14. What Are Some of the Other Variables? How the words are delivered by the prayer leader How the music is sung and accompanied The flow between the spoken word, the music, and the spaces in between The ambience and arrangement of the prayer space and the use of that space The general choreography of the service And the involvement of the congregation October 2, 2014 14

15. Entering the Tent “Our Synagogues are the place where we sanctify the ordinary and uplift the everyday.” Rabbi Eric Yoffie www.urj.org/worship/mishkan October 2, 2014 15

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