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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You really need to celebrate with Jews. Just reading about it and trying the prayers out yourself would not get the right feel of the holiday. And Judaism is about community... [b]we never celebrate on our own[/b].

Obviously that’s very hard to do during Covid. Maybe you can hold off until next year and try then.

But offensive? No, it’s not offensive. [/quote]

Well, that's not really true. A lot of observance is personal / in the home. Shabbat, for example. Yeah, you can go to services, but it's also perfectly fine to make Shabbat at home and that's what most people do. Sukkot. Pesach. Hanukkah. There are services one could go to for these, but the primary observance is at home.

However, I'm not sure that just trying out the prayers at home would be very meaningful without some context? That's for OP to decide but I'd think some education/watching others do it would be helpful. By way of comparison, I spent a couple of years in Japan and visited a ton of temples (Buddhist) and shrines (Shinto). You can read all you want about how to act, what to do, what the prayers mean, but there is no substitute for watching adherents perform the actions and seeing what it means to them. Of course I wasn't planning on converting, but I did want to be respectful. You don't want to run up and hit the large gong if that's not what you're supposed to do, or hit it in the wrong frame of mind. Etc.[/quote]

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