happy egal-land!

[theyellowhobbit]

Oh, happy egal-land, how I love thee.

On Friday night boroparkpyro and I went to an egalitarian Sephardi shul. They sing everything! They alternate verses of shir ha shirim, and different people do different parts of the services, and their tunes are so cool! I loved it.

And I also learned that I had learned boroparkpyro's Yaq Ribon wrong, since I learned it the way that alanscottevil taught me [it's here]. Which isn't necessarily bad, I mean I like it and it's much more singable, but I like the original better. And these are sung by boroparkpyro and alanscottevil respectively, so everyone can listen to them. Go listen!

I felt bad about perpetuating the tune in the non-original, but oh well, there's nothing I can do.

But I found out later that A.G., whose house I was staying at again, and tobeginagain were at shalshuddis together and tobeginagain sang the Yaq Ribon and A.G., who had learned it from me, was like "I know something similar to that..." And it was the other version of the song. And that was amusing, because everyone I know knows everyone else I know and now they all know Yaq Ribon. Yay!

I leined revii at Kedem yesterday. It went ok, though I messed up some vowels. But oh well. They asked if people wanted to organize an eicha reading, so I stayed for that conversation, and we organized it, and I'm leining the second perek! Yay! Of course, now I have to go and learn eicha trope...

There also was an announcement that there would be no Kedem this week. So there's an underground rebellion and there will be a non-Kedem minyan this coming week. So I will be [non] leading probably [non] shacharit. [Non] whee!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This makes up for not being able to lead maariv this past shabbat since I only was informed of the existence of this service on Friday afternoon and I had already made the plans to go with boroparkpyro to services and dinner.

And I very much like my happy egal land. I feel like I can be myself here, which I can't necessarily say is true for the Orthodox world.

And I saw Shlomo before shabbat. And I asked him if he had heard about me becoming egal and he said he had [he had asked about various Penn people and apparently I was one of them.] But he said that whoever had told him had also said that I was much happier now. Which I am. [Though a friends-locked post will come about happiness in a moment, or when I get to it...]

Comments

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

Let me just say that i was so confused at the beginning... i'm used to Shir Hashirim from the Yemenite shul, so whenever i tried to chant along it came out in half-Yemenite accent, but the tune was all wrong, and ... aaaah!

I'm usually not a big fan of circular seating arrangements (makes it hard to place the mehhitza, after all ;-) ), but i liked how all the little kids were playing around in the middle of the circle. It gave it a very family atmosphere.

I feel like alanscottevil's version has mutated a bit... the beginning in the recording sounds very similar to my beginning, but that's not how it seems that you and others have been singing it. Just remember — word-pairs!

[alanscottevil.livejournal.com]

People tend to even out the syncopation.

[boroparkpyro.livejournal.com]

*that*'s what that is?

[alanscottevil.livejournal.com]

At least that's been my experience

[arctic-alpine.livejournal.com]

why isnt kedem meeting this week?