That’s relatively new in the Jewish world. Along the way, you’re mentored by professionals and constantly learning in a post-graduate setting. In the liberal Jewish world, the typical path to become a cantor is to go to a formal house of study - Jewish Theological Seminary, Hebrew Union College, a post-graduate institution where you get a Master’s degree and alongside that, you get ordained or get smicha, etc. In a way, the way I learned was very untraditional, and in a way it was actually super traditional. JR: The word traditional is an interesting word in this concept. So it was only after I started the journey did I realize it was fully for me. All the things I tried to do to try to expand my role as a secular music educator, as a Jewish music educator, all the ways I wanted to expand started creeping into the territory of what a musical clergy member is. It was a bit of leaping before I looked, and when I started studying, I realized that using a musical language to serve humans, that was what I wanted to do. JR: When I started studying, to be fully honest. It took time to realize that what I wanted to do was be a cantor, but it was hard to want that at that point. My perception of myself did not match that which I could see of a Cantor-To-Be. Having only come back to an affirmative Jewish practice later in life, I found that the label “Cantor” for me was jarring to my identity.
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JR: At the time, I was still fighting a battle in my head as to whether I was a music professional or a Jewish professional, or even a Jewish music professional. And I thought, “No, no, that’s not for me.” Well, the next set of skills to learn, and how I could best serve the Jewish community, was to become a cantor. It wasn’t until my secular music profession and my Jewish music profession melded together and I started to go down a path where I was able to use both those sets of skills that I asked myself what’s next. My Jewish path is a little more wavy than that.
It wasn’t one of the stories where I knew it was what I wanted to do since birth, or I was inspired by some cantor since childhood. JR: I perhaps didn’t know for real until the question was thrust upon me. TBE: When did you know you wanted to be a cantor? We are thrilled to congratulate Josh Rosenberg on becoming a cantor! Multimedia Producer Madi Goldman sat down with Josh to ask him when he knew he wanted to become a cantor, how his process was different from a traditional journey, and what he’s most excited about.
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