{"id":385,"date":"2007-07-01T18:48:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-02T01:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=385"},"modified":"2007-12-08T23:42:55","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T06:30:55","slug":"pico-robertsons-shtibl-minyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Pico-Robertson’s Shtibl Minyan"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Suissa writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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For one thing, everyone chips in on everything. And I mean everything — <\/nobr>they take turns leading the prayers, reading from the Torah, making commentaries on the Torah portion of the week and, of course, setting up and cleaning up after the Kiddush.<\/p>\n

That’s why they call it egalitarian. There are no presidents, no rabbis and no chazzans. Everyone’s equal. It’s sort of a structured free-for-all. If a decision needs to be made, it must be by consensus. You wonder how they still talk to each other.<\/p>\n

When I visited, there were maybe 25 or 30 people in a nondescript, medium-sized conference room, which they rent from the Workmen’s Circle. There are long tables facing each other, a perfect setting for, say, a city council meeting in a tiny Midwestern town. But you quickly realize that you are in a shul, a serious shul. No one talks, everyone prays.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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