Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Observance, Marriage, Women in Judaism (4/12) Previous Document: Question 7.12: What happens on Shabbat? Next Document: Question 7.14: Why is there a prohibition on travel on Shabbat? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Answer: Most Conservative rabbis hold that playing a musical instrument on Shabbat is a violation of a rabbinic law, and thus prohibit it. Some Conservative rabbis hold that it may well not be a violation of halakha (Jewish law), and so theoretically could be permitted. However, in practice, the majority of these rabbis do not permit this use. A minority of Conservative synagogues do allow the use of an organ on Shabbat, and they have an official teshuvah (responsa) from the Rabbinical Assembly's Committee on Jewish Law and Standards (CJLS) to back them up. This teshuvah does not reccomend the use of an organ - in fact, it discourages it. But it notes that strictly speaking, this practice does seem to have some legitimacy. The website of the Conservative synagogue (below) explains why it allows the use of an organ during Shabbat services. It summarizes the halakhic arguments in this issue. [5]http://www.bethyeshurun.org/organ.htm User Contributions:Top Document: soc.culture.jewish FAQ: Observance, Marriage, Women in Judaism (4/12) Previous Document: Question 7.12: What happens on Shabbat? Next Document: Question 7.14: Why is there a prohibition on travel on Shabbat? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: SCJ FAQ Maintainer <maintainer@scjfaq.org>
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