A beautiful chulent!! Mi K'Amcha Yisrael!!

I spent Shabbos with my wife in a nice hotel in Yerushalayim yesterday to participate in a cousins aufruf (aliyah latorah on the shabbos prior to getting married).

While the chulent at the meal was good, that is not what the title refers to. The title refers to the davening. We davened in the hotel shul for the various services. The Rabbi was a jew of Yemenite descent. Some of the participants in the minyan were of Sephardic origin and most were of Ashkenazic origin. I do not know what happens on a normal shabbos, if they decide which nussach of Tefilla to use based on the majority or how else they decide, but this shabbos they davened Ashkenaz (maybe they always do or maybe it was because of the simcha, or maybe because of a majority of the mispallelim, I do not know).

We davened Ashkenaz. A Sephardic Torah Scroll was used for the Torah reading. The Yemenite Rabbi read from the Sephardic Torah using the Ashkenazic cantillations (trop). Aside from the chazzan who davened Ashkenaz, the Yemenite Rabbi led some of the services using the Ashkenazic text and tunes.

What a beautiful chulent!! Mi K'Amcha Yisrael!!