Another thing I do not understand is people's need to either run out of shul before the end of davening, or worse, to take off their talis and tefillin during davening.
This was really brought home to me on a recent Shabbos morning when the gentleman next to me took his talis off during HIS musaf shemone esray, and even folded it, all before he finished his tefila! ( he didn't leave, so its not like he was in a hurry or had an emergency). I think it is just a really bad habit that people get into, this one being a little odder than usual.
Although this appears to be a somewhat extreme case, it is really just a natural progression of those who take off their talis and tefillin, first during U'va L'tzion, then ashrei, and eventually, as soon as they finish shemone esray. This seems to be endemic across the spectrum but I find it harder to understand when it happens regularly on a Sunday, or among younger people who aren't in a hurry to catch a bus. I have even seen this done by a chazzan at the omud, which totally defies logic on both halachic and kovod hatzibur grounds.
I think we need to re-assess our approach to tefila, and teach our children the importance of sticking it out to the end, teaching them the halachos, which is clearly not being done, and leading by example, so as not to have a generation that R'L eventualy doesn't even bother in the first place.
being a woman I really had no idea that there was this much going on in a shul. I guess the basic lesson we can learn from here is that most people are only in shul bk they HAVE to be not because they want to be.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he had gas and has found a "mekor" that states that "one who feel that he must break wind, must remove any "bigday kodesh".
ReplyDeleteDid you by any change notice him bending in any particularly funny way? That's always a dead giveaway.