In a message dated 11/20/2000 10:27:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Havurat Shalom, a Jewish community in Somerville, MA best known as the
> communtity from which the Jewish Catalogues emerged, is in the process of
> creating a revised and interpreted prayer book that contains alternately
> masculine and feminine references to God and to the people (who are, by
> default, referred to by masculine pronouns, much as English traditionally
> uses "he," but because of the gendered "you," this is even more visible in
> Hebrew. The uses are not combined in a single prayer, but there may be
> both masculine and feminine versions of the same prayer on adjoining
> pages.
>
This sounds fascinating. I'd appreciate being notified when this becomes
available.
Judith Laura
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