Breaking the Code of Ritual Observance:
"Like Linux itself, independent minyanim are at their core expressions of dissent, a call for authenticity as a return to origins: traditional liturgy, text study in the original, hospitality as they imagine it to have been practiced in the more intimate communities of their great-grandparents.
Their counterparts are found in rabbi-led and alternative emergent communities, who are disconnected because they are disaffected: they fear they have lost sight of the core meaning at the heart of faith. Their graceful, user-friendly Mac-like reinventions seek a return to soulfulness, prayer to be embraced and grappled with at the same time, learning that links text and world, social activism that recalls the passion of the prophets."
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