Over the last few months, the minyan (gathering of ten men over thirteen years of age praying) that I am a part of in my school has been growing restless: they want to zip through the prayers and go straight to a breakfast of spoiled cereal, spoiled milk, and unusually spoiled kids. And so, when they are the cantors, they have been ignoring the head rabbi/teacher and just going at their own pace. I note here that it is customary to wait for the head rabbi of the minyan, at certain pauses throughout the duration of the prayer service. (In my synagogue, the day you don't wait for the rabbi is the last day you'll ever be a cantor.)
When I am cantor, however, I wait for the rabbi, making us all about...five minutes later to breakfast. I know this is a little heartless of me, but I don't go to breakfast since I got a stomach virus from the spoiled cereal--so I don't really care how late I am. So I wait for the rabbi because I know that it is the right thing to do, and all of my principals seem to agree with me. You can imagine how bent out of shape my fellow minyan-goers get--they need to get to their breakfast! Oh, the humanity!
What should I do? I know that I'm right (or at least I'm pretty sure I am), but what can I do to please all parties (if such a thing is possible)?
1 comment:
Keep doing what you're doing. Five more minutes is not a long time to wait for breakfast...I think your classmates can handle it.
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