Our minyan (of sorts) is growing!<\/p>\n
We are working with the publisher to secure rights to share the daily Kaddishim publicly by podcast (and links directly embedded in related posts, too, of course), but in the meantime, we are sharing the recordings privately on request by sharing a Dropbox link. (Details here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Let’s pause for a gloss, from Reb Deb’s glossary<\/a>:<\/p>\n minyan<\/strong>:<\/em> Literally \u201cnumber\u201d or \u201ccounting.\u201d The quorum of 10 adult Jewish men (or in contemporary egalitarian communities, 10 Jewish adults) required to hold a prayer service and recite all the prayers; in the absence of a\u00a0minyan<\/em>, certain prayers are omitted or recited privately rather than publically. Also required for public Torah reading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n For our purposes, the “minyan” is our community of listeners.\u00a0But we’re not all Jewish. (So far we’re all adults.) We don’t gather physically but virtually, by internet. And we don’t gather at the same time, exactly\u2014we’re asynchronous.<\/p>\n Here’s how it works:\u00a0Every day, at some point during the 24-hour period in Pacific time, I prepare a new recording and place it in the Dropbox for Mira and any others who have asked to listen. People listen when they can. Mira tends to listen very late at night, often spilling into the next day.<\/p>\n I suspect that not everybody listens every single day, or to every single recording, but I am committed to recording every day, and Mira is committed to listening to every recording. For practical reasons, though, she sometimes hears several recordings in a row several days later\u2014for instance, during her trip to a conference in New Orleans, when internet connectivity issues precluded daily listening. Judging from the comments here, though, some people are indeed joining us in a daily ritual, and that is both slightly terrifying for me (yikes! I only get to do one take each day, and some definitely go better than others!) and incredibly heartening.<\/p>\n That this project speaks to people\u2014and a truly diverse audience it is\u2014moves me beyond words. If it speaks to you, please share it with others who might be interested. Every post here on Beit Malkhut<\/a> has a “Share This” button at bottom that you can use to share by email or on Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, Blogger, MySpace, Digg, AIM Share, Stumbleupon, Messenger, and more.<\/p>\nplease spread the word<\/h3>\n
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