At 06:14 PM 27/7/99 -0400, you wrote:
> Susan asked:
>
>> Okey dokey, here's a related question: What about the various gestures
>> (genuflecting, crossing oneself)? I was raised Protestant, have a healthy
>> respect for Catholicism due to being a medievalist, but do not want to do
>> something "wrong." However, I want to show the proper respect (since, for
>> the most part, there's nothing all that alien about the beliefs
>> themselves).
>>
> It used to be quite a challenge for outsiders before Vatican II when
>so little was written down and there were no lectors to tell people what to
>do.
This is only for the Jews on the list: since we are forbidden to kneel to
anyone but God, if one attends a service of a religion which requires its
believers to kneel, one rises to one's feet as a sign of respect. These, at
least, are the instructions of the Israeli Foreign Office, which is no
halakhic authority whatsover.
Esther
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Esther Cohen
Professor of Medieval History
Department of History
Hebrew University
Jerusalem, Israel
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