The purpose of this email is to ruffle some feathers at the Shabbat table... Please share...
Happy Birthday shout-out to Suzanne in SF . . . wishing you great health and even greater wisdom.
Thank you for all the kind words in response to last week's mazal tov.
That message was about sometimes taking the long road.
On that theme, here's a true story that I witnessed this week, followed by a question for your table.
There is a certain man I know who attends the same little shul every morning. He's been going there for years. Let's call him Shlomo.
You know how you get when you do the same thing for years. You have your habits.
One of his habits is to sit in the same seat. Now, for years Shlomo could get to his seat without bothering anyone. However, about a year ago, the shul underwent certain renovations requiring Shlomo to change the route to his seat.
Post-renovations, Shlomo must choose:
Path A takes him down a certain aisle.
The problem with Path A is that another man, Moshe, likes to stand partially in that aisle. Moshe doesn't block it completely, maybe only halfway. But it's enough that Shlomo has to turn sideways to get by.
Path B is the same distance, but requires him to pass behind the chazan, where there really is no space, so he must squeeze to get by.
For all these months, Shlomo has been choosing Path A without incident.
However, yesterday he must have brushed too close to Moshe, at the end of the service, Moshe came up to him angrily accusing him of being rude for "shoving" him every time he passes by.
Shlomo tried to appease Moshe, apologized and asked him if he wouldn't mind not standing in the aisle, but it didn't seem to help. Moshe took the suggestion very poorly that his own behavior may have contributed to the accidental bodily contact.
Questions for your table: Did Moshe have just cause to get angry? Does Shlomo have a good point, that physical contact is inevitable when someone partially blocks the aisle? Should Shlomo start using Path B in order to avoid conflict?
Shabbat Shalom
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Happy Birthday shout-out to Suzanne in SF . . . wishing you great health and even greater wisdom.
That message was about sometimes taking the long road.
On that theme, here's a true story that I witnessed this week, followed by a question for your table.
There is a certain man I know who attends the same little shul every morning. He's been going there for years. Let's call him Shlomo.
You know how you get when you do the same thing for years. You have your habits.
One of his habits is to sit in the same seat. Now, for years Shlomo could get to his seat without bothering anyone. However, about a year ago, the shul underwent certain renovations requiring Shlomo to change the route to his seat.
Post-renovations, Shlomo must choose:
Path A takes him down a certain aisle.
The problem with Path A is that another man, Moshe, likes to stand partially in that aisle. Moshe doesn't block it completely, maybe only halfway. But it's enough that Shlomo has to turn sideways to get by.
Path B is the same distance, but requires him to pass behind the chazan, where there really is no space, so he must squeeze to get by.
For all these months, Shlomo has been choosing Path A without incident.
However, yesterday he must have brushed too close to Moshe, at the end of the service, Moshe came up to him angrily accusing him of being rude for "shoving" him every time he passes by.
Shlomo tried to appease Moshe, apologized and asked him if he wouldn't mind not standing in the aisle, but it didn't seem to help. Moshe took the suggestion very poorly that his own behavior may have contributed to the accidental bodily contact.
Questions for your table: Did Moshe have just cause to get angry? Does Shlomo have a good point, that physical contact is inevitable when someone partially blocks the aisle? Should Shlomo start using Path B in order to avoid conflict?
Shabbat Shalom
PS - Of course the above pic is clickable...
I'm guessing that the readers of this email collectively spend at least $100,000 a year on Amazon. With one easy trick, Amazon will turn that shopping into a $500 donation to JSLI, helping keep our computers humming and programs running. Simply use Amazon Smile, and designate Jewish Spiritual Literacy as your charity — for the same cost to you.
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