A Good Niggun* Always Enhances My Kavannah**

[gnomi]

I have been offline since Friday because of Shabbat and Yom Kippur; please let me know if I missed anything.

But I come with an anecdote from Yom Kippur services at our synagogue. In the neighborhood around our shul, there is a large Russian population. Many of the Jews in this community are not particularly observant, but they come to shul for Yizkor, the memorial prayer said on one of the days of each of our three major holidays plus Yom Kippur. And despite signs on the doors in both English and Russian reminding people to turn off their cell phones (or, even better, to leave their phones at home), there are always phones that ring on Yizkor days. Today, the first one to ring was in the women's section, not far from where I was sitting. Its ring tone? "When the Saints Go Marching In."

*melody
** concentration

Comments

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

That's my rabbi's ring tone. But I can prove he wasn't there.

[sethg]

Maybe he was the caller.

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

I think he was a little busy at the time. (And you KNOW that's not how it works. If you could SEND a ring tone that way, prank calling would be HUGE.)

[eireangus.livejournal.com]

That actually happened at my Chabad too --- some old guy's phone started going on with really loud jazz music! :)

I hope you had an easy fast.

I'm SO full!

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Appropriate...

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

someone's phone went off yesterday during, crap, the afternoon service right before yizkor. the rabbi was talking about the haftorah, and right when he mentioned that god called upon jonah to go to nineveh - a cell rang. if you're going to leave your phone on in the sanctuary, at least hope someone calls at an appropriate moment.

[eal.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's funny. Very funny.

Excellent timing, though :).

[farwing.livejournal.com]

Hee! Nice timing indeed.

[sorek.livejournal.com]

oh the irony.

[farwing.livejournal.com]

*snort* That's pretty darn funny.