1. I once heard from a Rav who was always bothered by how people talk and disturb others during davening. He then went on to explain it by saying those people just dont beleive. If we believed in our tefilot, if we actually thought about the fact that Hashem is in front of us, then we would act differently. I appreciate the story and I hope it reinforces the point to others as it has for me.
Comment by Bizrizut July 31, 2007 @ 1:21 pm
Bizrizut,
Chas VShalom they dont believe!! That rav didnt understand the yideshe people. We are told that we are believers and children of believers thats who we are. Now to explain the lack of decorum in our shuls.
As reb Avrom points out that with time we can become lax in our respect for a beis hatfilah. When one realizes the enourmous potential there is in tefilah one can understand the tremndous desire to interrupt that very task. The Satan knows that tefilah is extremally valuable, and tries to minimize the effect by introducing all sorts of narishkeit into this task. (I always wondered why people cant put their phone on vibrate mode, but with this explaination I no longer wonder.) How many times do we get together each week, month, year, lifetime to daven? Is this the mark of people who dont believe? When we daven 21 tefilos a week, 10 hours at a minimum per week, how can you say that we dont believe? If its lip service, that should last 2-3 hours but 10 solid hours a week should profess our belief that there is a creator and he runs the world. I believe that anyone of the people that attend the minyanim daily would give up their lives al-kidush hashem in a nano-second.
Lets not bad mouth our fellow yidden. I enjoyed the article because the author did not trash yidden, but merely elabarated on how lucky we would be if we follow the decorum lesson.
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A 48-year-old Phoenix grandfather was killed by police after cops walked in on a gruesome scene:
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Just a little snippet of today's news you may have missed.
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