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I just realized that I've almost never seen anyone deal with food allergies or particular diets in SF/F literature... One wonders how people would get by...
I just realized that I've almost never seen anyone deal with food allergies or particular diets in SF/F literature... One wonders how people would get by...
Shabbat was quiet over all. But morning davenen was hodge-podge enough to be worthy of note. It was a minyan that would never have ended up together by first preference. There were 4 guys and 2 women (myself included, and we were the Only women there) from the Egal community. There was the Chabad rabbi. There were two French grad students and the father of one of them. There were a few guys from the undergraduate Orthodox community, and two older men whom I believe were fathers of two of them or some such. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zodiacmg led P'sukei D'Zimra. One of the fathers led Shacharit. Steve the probably-future-cantorial-student led musaf and naturally stumbled over the Orthodox formulation. The father of one of the French grad students did all the layning, with one of the Sephardi tropes (where the sofei pasuk did not feel at All like ending points) with his son signing to trope at him as he went. He also gave all the mi sheberakhs for individuals who had aliyot, complete with a variation for his some, and some semi-intelligible question for zodiacmg which he thinks was an inquiry as to his marital status. I don't think anyone else was asked this- I'm not at all sure why it was asked then: something about the blessing formula as he was using it: maybe he knew/could guess with everyone else? It was odd. The whole thing was strange, as no one was quite sure who was gabbaying, or what general norms to function on- singing/no singing, etc. It was hodge-podge enough (and I'd expected something like that, although not Quite this mixed) that I wore my tallit and did not get any angry looks during or afterwards. It probably helped that the only other woman there was also Egal, although very traditional in her ritualwear, or rather her lack thereof, herself. IT made for a very interesting religious experience.
zodiacmg led P'sukei D'Zimra. One of the fathers led Shacharit. Steve the probably-future-cantorial-student led musaf and naturally stumbled over the Orthodox formulation. The father of one of the French grad students did all the layning, with one of the Sephardi tropes (where the sofei pasuk did not feel at All like ending points) with his son signing to trope at him as he went. He also gave all the mi sheberakhs for individuals who had aliyot, complete with a variation for his some, and some semi-intelligible question for zodiacmg which he thinks was an inquiry as to his marital status. I don't think anyone else was asked this- I'm not at all sure why it was asked then: something about the blessing formula as he was using it: maybe he knew/could guess with everyone else? It was odd. The whole thing was strange, as no one was quite sure who was gabbaying, or what general norms to function on- singing/no singing, etc. It was hodge-podge enough (and I'd expected something like that, although not Quite this mixed) that I wore my tallit and did not get any angry looks during or afterwards. It probably helped that the only other woman there was also Egal, although very traditional in her ritualwear, or rather her lack thereof, herself. IT made for a very interesting religious experience.Shabbat was quiet over all. But morning davenen was hodge-podge enough to be worthy of note. It was a minyan that would never have ended up together by first preference. There were 4 guys and 2 women (myself included, and we were the Only women there) from the Egal community. There was the Chabad rabbi. There were two French grad students and the father of one of them. There were a few guys from the undergraduate Orthodox community, and two older men whom I believe were fathers of two of them or some such. zodiacmg led P'sukei D'Zimra. One of the fathers led Shacharit. Steve the probably-future-cantorial-student led musaf and naturally stumbled over the Orthodox formulation. The father of one of the French grad students did all the layning, with one of the Sephardi tropes (where the sofei pasuk did not feel at All like ending points) with his son signing to trope at him as he went. He also gave all the mi sheberakhs for individuals who had aliyot, complete with a variation for his some, and some semi-intelligible question for zodiacmg which he thinks was an inquiry as to his marital status. I don't think anyone else was asked this- I'm not at all sure why it was asked then: something about the blessing formula as he was using it: maybe he knew/could guess with everyone else? It was odd. The whole thing was strange, as no one was quite sure who was gabbaying, or what general norms to function on- singing/no singing, etc. It was hodge-podge enough (and I'd expected something like that, although not Quite this mixed) that I wore my tallit and did not get any angry looks during or afterwards. It probably helped that the only other woman there was also Egal, although very traditional in her ritualwear, or rather her lack thereof, herself. IT made for a very interesting religious experience.
zodiacmg led P'sukei D'Zimra. One of the fathers led Shacharit. Steve the probably-future-cantorial-student led musaf and naturally stumbled over the Orthodox formulation. The father of one of the French grad students did all the layning, with one of the Sephardi tropes (where the sofei pasuk did not feel at All like ending points) with his son signing to trope at him as he went. He also gave all the mi sheberakhs for individuals who had aliyot, complete with a variation for his some, and some semi-intelligible question for zodiacmg which he thinks was an inquiry as to his marital status. I don't think anyone else was asked this- I'm not at all sure why it was asked then: something about the blessing formula as he was using it: maybe he knew/could guess with everyone else? It was odd. The whole thing was strange, as no one was quite sure who was gabbaying, or what general norms to function on- singing/no singing, etc. It was hodge-podge enough (and I'd expected something like that, although not Quite this mixed) that I wore my tallit and did not get any angry looks during or afterwards. It probably helped that the only other woman there was also Egal, although very traditional in her ritualwear, or rather her lack thereof, herself. IT made for a very interesting religious experience..