Reply To: Yeah, It's A Rant… Talking In Shul and Attitudes…

Avram,

That’s a fair criticism. Your point here:

4.) Drop points 1 and 2 and argue that you are completely and honestly serious about point 3.

… is well taken. However, sometimes that is how I am made to feel. Is it logical? Granted, it is probably not. Yet, despite any other appearances, I do have emotions and sometimes act very strongly on them, even if the end result is not completely logical. Consider it a failing on my part.

I posted the same thing three months ago, and was told that I was wrong and to stop being bothered by it!

No one has said that here, so obviously I cannot trot that out.

I am sorry that you have had so much trouble at this Yeshivish-style shul.

It’s not that. Heck, the shul that I daven in when there is laining is a largely yeshivish-style shul with no talking… and I have never once ranted against it. On the contrary, it’s a warm welcoming atmosphere where people respect each others’ davening, do not talk or disturb and where I can actually hear the chazzan when he speaks. In other words, it’s not the fact that it’s yeshivish style… it’s the fact that they talk during davening. Had they been a chassidish shteeble, a Young Israel, an MO shul or anything else, I’d be just as bothered.

The Wolf