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• 1 Future Druggie // Jun 29, 2008 at 4:22 pm

  I can never hear Megilla over the babies.

• 2 Ed // Jun 29, 2008 at 4:44 pm

  The guy who starts clapping in the middle of shemonei esrei. You’re almost getting into it and then you hear clapping and you start looking around trying to figure out what the hell you missed.

  Your davening is shot after that

• 3 Chana // Jun 29, 2008 at 6:55 pm

  Funny… you mentioned how the chitas never stays open, but I found that for me my chitas is the only siddur I have that will stay open to the page I want it to! I guess it depends what kind of binding it has, and where you’re looking at. Like I never read hayom yom out of the chitas which is in the very back, and I imagine it might close a lot then… but that was just an observation.
  The blog is really funny! I’m pretty new to reading it, but the BT stuff you did a while back was hilarious! And I think its even funnier to someone who is a BT and knows what ur talking about.

• 4 Nemo // Jun 29, 2008 at 7:53 pm

  I heard they stopped making Tam Tams. Anybody able to confirm this?

• 5 Priss // Jun 29, 2008 at 9:33 pm

  I don’t think you ever really explained what you mean by “thumb dipping.” In fact, gestures in general would make a good video topic.

• 6 Heterim are for Hippies // Jun 29, 2008 at 10:51 pm

  Nu, bust it out then!

  It’s a big chutzpa for grown frum men to be talking at the back of shul. At least leave the room if you can’t hold back the need to hock until kiddush.

  Also, the guy that davens and learns by far louder than anybody else. I’m talking about the guy that you can hear enunciate every word from a good 100 feet away. I find this tends to happen in frummy places like lakewood or brooklyn.

• 7 Ex-wife of BT // Jun 29, 2008 at 10:54 pm

  What on Earth is “Psicha” and “Glila”?

• 8 Child Ish Behavior // Jun 29, 2008 at 11:22 pm

  What is really annoying is when someone has the parsha sheets and wont share. Don’t hog the sheets. Many of us are also bored and in need of some pass the time reading. Not all of us want to bother to find the place, after loosing it 3 aliyos back. For someone to keep the kiruv Dvar Torah for more than one aliya is just selfish.

• 9 A Jewish Music Insider // Jun 30, 2008 at 7:58 am

  Another great video posting! I agree with the p’sicha comment very funny

• 10 Moshe // Jun 30, 2008 at 9:23 am

  Recently we started having a very big annoyance in shul. Rabbi’s teenage son who ends up being the hazan, decided he’s in yeshiva. Shma is so long that I’m starting to think his father is waiting for him to finish instead of the other way around. He says aleinu out loud, word for word, and not the fun camp singing style. At end of davening, I say aleinu and after I finish, it seems like he’s going on for like 5 minutes. Kadesh takes like a minute or more. It’s gotten so bad that one of my friends started going to another shul because of the length of the davening.

• 11 heshman // Jun 30, 2008 at 9:35 am

  Childish- I am a parsha sheet collector I always get the old ones as well as the new ones and hide the fresh ones under my stack.

  Hippy I hate when ppl daven loudly I always mix up my davening with theirs.

• 12 Redhead // Jun 30, 2008 at 11:47 am

  ex-wife of BT:
  Psicha lit. means “opening.” It refers to the aron (ark) being opened and it is a kavod (honor) given to someone in the shul (usually a kid or a single guy).
  Glila is the kavod of putting the gartel/cover/crown on the Torah after it was lifted during hagba. As Hesh has pointed out, this kavod is given to the shul rejects.

  Hesh - I agree with Chana re. the chitas. It really depends on the binding. The soft-cover ones stay open almost everywhere (except for Braishis and hayom yom) but the hardcover ones only stay open in the tanya section.

  And what about the temperature in shul? Shuls are either freezing or boiling. I understand when they’re cold because the men are dressed for sub-zero weather in Poland but there is no excuse for the heat.
  One of the biggest annoyances in shul - haftorah. Why do we have it nowadays when we read the whole parsha? Sometimes it’s interesting and I’ll read the English (when it’s a good story from navi) but otherwise it just delays the kiddush by ten minutes. Although, it functions as somewhat of a bathroom/read the bulletin break. And the worst is when the haftorah is read sloooowly.

• 13 KissMeI'mShomer // Jul 3, 2008 at 9:16 am

  Most annoying in the shul?
  The “so where are you up to now?” and the “im yirtzeh Hashem by you” stuff.

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