Beat boxing and Friday night services.
One might wonder what a beat boxer was doing at services to begin with, and I'll get there. Tonight was the 6th in the City August services. "6th in the City" is the name for events at 6th and I Synagogue that are geared towards Jews in their 20s and 30s. Every month they put on one of the Friday night services. Usually it is led by the rabbi with a guitarist leading some of the prayers. Tonight it was led by an a capella group. I thought it would be good, but it was actually one of my least favorite services I've been at. I felt like we didn't get a lot of guidance on where we were in the text, and the songs weren't sung to the normal tune. There was also no Torah portion, just the singing. And the beat boxing. For some reason, on a few of the songs one of the guys started beat boxing. He wasn't bad. I just felt like Temple was not the place to do it. It stuck out, and not in a good way. So moral of the story is no bet boxing at Friday night services, and I might be skipping the next a capella night.
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