Rabbi(s) offer an introduction to today's reading
The book is taken out of storage with great ceremony. Touching it with a prayer book or shawl as it is carried through the congregation is a way of asking for a blessing from God's Word.
Members of the community are called up (often with advance notice) and asked to read a portion of today's reading to the congregation. The vocalization of the Torah is done in a sing-song voice, called Chanting.
Rabbi offers a sermon.
More reading.
Book is put away with great ceremony. Those who missed their chance may again touch the bindings of the Torah for a blessing.
Community messages are announced by the Rabbi(s). Then people go to lunch.
The focus on the Torah if very similar to the focus on the Abiding Book, which is read in ceremonial form as part of the service. To me this is different than a Christian church service; which is as it should be, since this isn't Earth and these aren't Christians (nor are they Jewish).
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Trotsky <TTrotsky_at__g927a9B8sgxd0_XwnY7lk4GQOB5xsmaxMp1EpO36qw94ihDAFUxPvHWq3cGc1y7wnKEWZQp9XRR6dPkoafhxA.yahoo.invalid> wrote:
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> > > Fear ? What will the players do when it turns out that carol singing is
> > > required ? When the kindly spinsters are eager to find out how good the
> > > characters' singing voices are ? OMG what are the words !!??!?
> > /// Even better !
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> FWIW, I'd imagine that the Rokari go in for something more like
> Gregorian chanting than the sort of cheerful stuff the Hrestoli sing.
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