There used to be a siddur (don’t know if it still exists now) that had the English/Hebrew printed on the same page across from each other line by line. If I were going to have to read it in Hebrew but wanted to know what I was saying, then this would be the type of print style that would help me the most for this purpose. Who would want to read a whole page on one side and then come to the other side and try to read it now in Hebrew. I don’t know if I would remember more than a half a line by that point. In all of the BT programs that I have participated in, including Aish HaTorah and its women’s seminary, there was never any problem daavening in English. We learned the Hebrew also, but were told to understand what we were saying first. What about a person who can’t even READ Hebrew, what’s he supposed to do?
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