{"id":6160,"date":"2008-10-11T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T03:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2008-10-11T19:31:09","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T03:31:09","slug":"bnai-david-rabbi-urges-his-congregants-to-emulate-the-happy-minyans-virtues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6160","title":{"rendered":"Bnai David Rabbi Urges His Congregants To Emulate The Happy Minyan&#8217;s Virtues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, the rabbi of congregation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bnaidavid.com\">B&#8217;nai David-Judea<\/a>, Yosef Kanefsky, took a two month Sabbatical.<\/p>\n<p>He stayed in town but davened everywhere but his own shul.<\/p>\n<p>His time at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happyminyan.org\">Happy Minyan<\/a> was particularly moving and he gave a sermon about it at B&#8217;nai David last Shabbos.<\/p>\n<p>B&#8217;nai David has a cavernous sanctuary with horrible acoustics. Though the shul can bring formidable firepower to the bima &#8212; from Shirat Chana to Reb Mimi to Alex Fax to Josh Sharfman &#8212; it&#8217;s hard to arouse any ruach (spirit) in the parishioners.<\/p>\n<p>Most Jews when they leave shul after davening feel as alive as Natalie Wood after Thanksgiving at Catalina Island.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v280\/tomasutpen\/GCW\/NatalieWood_SexEducation.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v280\/tomasutpen\/GCW\/NatalieWood_SexEducation.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yehuda Solomon is the Happy Minyan&#8217;s davening star. He&#8217;s the lead singer for the Moshav Band. He gets paid the big bucks to lead services elsewhere but this year the shul came in with a substantial offer to keep him home for the high holidays.<\/p>\n<p>I remember the first time he led the davening at Young Israel of Century City, a proper Yechie-type shul.<\/p>\n<p>Yehuda came in with his ponytail and untucked shirt and sandals and he got the evil eye from the old folks in the shul.<\/p>\n<p>It was a Shabbos mincha. There was a lot of discontent as he was asked to take over at the bima.<\/p>\n<p>As he began to daven, people were talking over him and complaining.<\/p>\n<p>Then Yehuda kicked things into another gear and suddenly the shul came alive as it had never done and everyone started singing and swaying and actually enjoying their davening.<\/p>\n<p>Now YICC has regular Shlomo Carlebach-style davening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, the rabbi of congregation B&#8217;nai David-Judea, Yosef Kanefsky, took a two month Sabbatical. He stayed in town but davened everywhere but his own shul. His time at the Happy Minyan was particularly moving and he gave a sermon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=6160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5874,2648,135],"tags":[13474,13475,5732,13473,809,671],"class_list":["post-6160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bnai-david-judea","category-happy-minyan","category-prayer","tag-catalina-island","tag-chana","tag-nai-david","tag-natalie-wood","tag-shabbos","tag-shul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6162,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions\/6162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}