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Padraic Brown jazdy: > --- Adam Walker <carrajena@hidden.email> wrote: > > > --- Isaac Penzev <isaacp@hidden.email> wrote: > > > > That may seem practise from synagogue times. > > > The chazan/cantor (the person > > > who leads public prayer) faces the same > > > direction the praying people do. > > > > I'm leaning toward priest facing east with the > > congregation during prayers, west toward the > > congregation for reading of scripture and other > > parts of the service. Not yet sure this is how > it > > will be, but leaning this way at the moment. > > I think that makes sense. I agree. But what about considering of moving the cathedra/bemah/pulpit (whatever you call it) to the center on the congregation as they do in synagogues? It permits the reader still to be faced mizrach (conventional "east"), but the congragation is able to turn and watch him, facing the bemah in the center! -- Yitzik