Guide to West Side Minyan Hybrid Services

This is a work-in-progress, revised July 4, 2023 6:16 AM

Guide for the Shamash

On 6th floor, check for the presence of:

• Aron
• Ner tamid
• Sufficient sifrei Torah
• Yad
• Curtains
• Chairs
• Torah stand
• Reading desk
• Rolling bookcase with Slim Shalom and chumashim
• Basket of tallitot and kippot
• A copy of Hineini, highlighted with items we should announce. Give it to the announcer.

AC also provides:

• Movie screen
• Projector
• Power strip
• Table for Nos
• Privacy screen to hide Nos

We'd also like to have a music stand for Ilana

Take out from the bottom of the aron:

• Torah blessing card -- put on the reading desk
• Blue tape -- use it to post the two 6th floor hallway signs
• Green plastic WSM envelope
  • Take out the hall signs and post in the sixth floor hallway, using the blue tape which is under the aron.
  • Take out aliya cards and distribute before the Torah service
• Ask the first on-site leiner to select the gabbai
• Give the rest of the green plastic WSM envelope to the gabbai. NOTE: There is a Miles Cohen luach in either the purple plastic Rimonim envelope, or the green WSM one. The WSM envelope also has two wooden yads.

Make sure someone rolls the Torah scroll(s) to the correct place.

After the service, please collect

• the hall signs
• gabbai cheat sheets
• aliya cards
• luach

and put them in the green envelope. Put the following under the aron:

• green envelope
• Torah blessing card
• blue tape

About WSM Hybrid Services, including a Brief Overview for Davening Leaders

• WSM hybrid services start with Birchot haShachar and P'sukei D'Zimra at 9:40 am. Shacharit begins at 10:00 am sharp!
• Counting a minyan: WSM counts people attending in person AND on ZOOM. The davening leader can just ask "Do we have a minyan?" and let someone else worry about it.
• The leader of Birchot haShachar and P'sukei D'Zimra is assigned by Miriam H-K. The leaders of Shacharit and Musaf are assigned by Iris (with some help from Nos).
• If you're leading Birchot haShachar and P'sukei D'Zimra, please finish no later than 10:00 am. We're flexible about how Birchot haShachar and P'sukei D'Zimra are done. The guide below follows the way Nos does it. Feel free to do it your own way.
• If you're on ZOOM, use any siddur you like.
• If you're leading in person, it's best to use "Slim Shalom" since that's what's available in our 6th floor davening space. "Slim Shalom" is actually Siddur Sim Shalom for Shabbat and Festivals. It has a blue cover.
• If we have a minyan, we do all the traditional Kaddishes in Shacharit, the Torah Service, and Musaf.
• Both Shacharit and Musaf are done "Heicha Kedusha" style; i.e., no Reader's Repetition.
• Elements from TeleTefila practice that WSM does not do: "Good News" at the beginning of the Torah Service, Birkat haGomeil, and Aliya Chatima. We do not read Haftarah at hybrid services. And we don't do a Psalm or reading at the conclusion of the service.
• In Birchot haShachar and P'sukei D'Zimra, please announce which reading you're skipping to. It's best to NOT announce page numbers, since our ZOOM congregants use four different siddurim.
• In Shacharit, please announce the sections of the service: Bar'chu, Amidah, Torah Service; and give folks a few moments to catch up. We generally don't announce page numbers except during the Torah and Haftara reading. For those attending over ZOOM, we have a guide to page numbers here.
• In the Shacharit and Musaf guide below, after each instruction, just continue davening from the siddur until the next instruction.
• If we have a minyan for the Torah Service, the Shacharit davener leads through the point where the Torah is on the reading desk. If no minyan, the Shacharit davener finishes with the Kaddish Shaleim before the Torah Service.
• If the Torah was taken out, the Musaf davener begins at Y'hal'lu. If the Torah was not taken out, the Musaf davener begins with the Musaf Amida.

Leading Birchot haShachar and P'sukei D'Zimra

The leader of Birchot haShachar and P'sukei D'Zimra is assigned by Miriam H-K.

Birchot haShachar begins at 9:40 am.

1. Begin at Mah Tovu (Nos sings the whole thing)
2. After be-emet yishecha: skip to Morning Blessings (Nos chants them all)
3. After et-shimcha barabim: skip to Mizmor Shir Chanukat Habayit L'David (Ps 30)
4. (If we have a minyan) Mourner's Kaddish

P'sukei D'Zimra

1. Baruch She-amar (Nos sings)
2. After m'hulal batishbachot: do two or more Psalms
3. After the Psalms: skip to Ashrei
4. After mei-atah v'ad olam haleluya: do zero or more Psalms
5. After the optional Psalms: skip to Ps 150
6. After Ps 150: skip to Nishmat
7. P'sukei D'zimra ends with Al kisei ram v'nisa

Leading Shacharit

Shacharit begins at 10:00 am sharp!

The Shacharit davener is assigned by Iris (with some help from Nos).

1. Shochein ad
2. (If we have a minyan) Chatzi Kaddish
3. (If we have a minyan) Bar'chu
4. Yotzeir, then keep going . . .
5. After gaal yisrael: Amidah. Done Heicha Kedusha style.
6. After oseh shalom . . . kol yisra-eil v'imru amein: you may add a niggun
7. (If we have a minyan) Kaddish Shaleim

Taking out the Torah — If we have a minyan

1. Ein Kamocha
2. After l'tav ul'chayin v'lishlam amein: Sh'ma
3. Please have someone else carry the Torah around so you can stay at the reading desk and be heard through the microphone (this is what Hazzan Natasha does in the Sanctuary)
4. After ki kadosh Adonai eloheinu: You're done!

Torah service

• We read Torah according to the Triennial cycle
• The Torah Service is led by the Gabbai.
• The Gabbai is selected by the first on-site leiner  
• Gabbai should adjust the mic as needed.
• Maftir is only read when there is a special maftir — additional scroll(s)
• NO Haftarah at WSM hybrid services

Leading Musaf

You begin immediately after the DT.

1. (If applicable) Birkat haChodesh
2. If we have a minyan:
   • Y'hal'lu
   • Please have someone else carry the Torah around so you can stay at the reading desk and be heard through the microphone (this is what Hazzan Natasha does in the Sanctuary)
   • Chatzi Kaddish
3. Musaf Amida (done "heicha kedusha")
4. After oseh shalom . . . kol yisra-eil v'imru amein: you may add a niggun
5. (If we have a minyan) Kaddish Shaleim
6. Ein Keiloheinu (optional)
7. Aleinu
8. (If we have a minyan) Mourner's Kaddish
9. Announcements (NOT YOU)
10. Adon Olam

Credit: Mainly Iris