I once posted about two very important books on טעמי המקרא, Biblical Cantillation, which were written by the Reverend Dr. William Wickes. See this recent post by Lion of Zion which refers to one of them. Victor Tunkel has posted a comment to that post, and points out that in his book, The [...]
It seems that Canada now has a Shira Hadasha-like minyan,
The minyan’s mission statement reads, in part, that the community “follows the approach of those Orthodox rabbis who have argued that the dignity of human beings (kavod ha-briyot) is a crucial halachic value that permits us, and in fact obligates us, to expand the roles of [...]
At Hirhurim Gil has two recent posts on the issue of talking during shul. I just came across two related sources which illustrate how this problem is not new at all. The first source is from a Yiddish poem written around 1675.
in the synagogue they can’t keep their mouths shut;
one talks of [...]
Continuing my interesting in cantillation-related matters, two of the most important books ever published on the subject are available at the Internet Archive and Google Books, both of them by William Wickes.
1. A Treatise on the Accentuation of the Twenty-one so-called Prose Books of the Old Testament (here and here). In the introduction [...]
Lion of Zion has posted about the cantillation used in the reading of the Ten Commandments in synagogue. I have previously posted on this topic, but I wanted to draw the attention of those who are interested in Ta’amei ha-Mikrah to this article by Miles Cohen and David Freedman on the topic. On [...]
The third part of Lee Levine on the Ancient Synagogue can be found here. (hat tip) See this earlier post on the subject.
There has been much talk during the past few years about independent minyanim (prayer groups), groups of people getting together to pray, study, etc., outside of the framework of organized synagogues and institutions. For some discussion see here, here, and here. While in the past the question was usually framed in terms of [...]
There was a recent article in the Jewish Week about Sherwood Goffin, the cantor of the Lincoln Square Synagogue. Goffin was lamenting the current state of leading prayer services and what may be termed the over-Carlbachization of prayer services. He is upset that many people lead services and have no idea about what [...]
Lee I. Levine, author of “The Ancient Synagogue: The First Thousand Years, and one of my favorite teachers and someone who was very helpful years ago when I was in college and planning my future studies in Israel, was recently interviewed in Reform Judaism Magazine about the synagogue in the first centuries of the common [...]
Dr. Philip A. Harland of Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean has posted online a recent article which he has written, “Familial Dimensions of Group Identity (II): “Mothers” and “Fathers” in Associations and Synagogues of the Greek World”.
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