10 October 2011 à 03:48
subject: Sidur for dummiesDear All,After teaching a couple of youngsters in my community for a while and after guiding them through the Kippur services I noticed how difficult it is for most people these days, especially the young ones, to follow the whole service and participate, especially if they are no frequent visitors. To be able to follow everything will take many years and one has to be quite trained in reading Hebrew.In the mean time I have worked on several works to make it easier for the next generation to learn our prayers. I've recorded all haftarot, sometimes I cut them in pieces, ordered by melody - same for the megilot. I have been working on a siddur where you don't need to browse back and forth to different pages, I have a lot of texts in fonetic (amsterdam portuguese style) and texts where certain rituals are explained and also the words that are being sang out loud are in bold.After Kippur I decided that I want to make a Siddur for dummies. I want to start with shabbat/daily and perhaps kippur. Just the relevant prayers (also in fonetic) + berahot, explanations, some stories and images and for the real young I want to mark which prayers they should say. I have used the wintersports system once - green for noobies, blue = intermediate, red and then black. So they can gradually start to pray everything. Perhaps I'd like to combine this with an website or tutorials on youtube.My question is: is there anyone here who knows of such a project somewhere else in the world, someone who has good ideas about which prayers should be said from what age and/or people that would want to contribute to this project physically, emotionally, financially and/or in any other way? Perhaps there is a way I could combine an Amsterdam version with a version that's suitable for other places or I could just make several different versions.Shanim rabot,Nachshon
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