Sadly, these days it’s all too common for people to read their texts and emails during davening. They do it during chazaras hashatz, krias haTorah, and other parts of davening.
In this segment you will learn:
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Why it’s so hard for people to “unplug”
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Effective solutions to this problem
WATCH:
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who are you?
why is there 2 empty minutes of just black screen?
great point with real words of truth
may we all take his words & start treating a shul with respect & no cell phones or talking etc… when we are in front of the king of kings…. HASHEM
How about looking at a sefer during חזרת השץ
Very nice chop, “Frum” & balanced, as a take-off of FOX news “fair” & balanced. Aha, I get it. Who is this phantom host? Does he have a name? Is he a real person? What town/State/Country is he broadcasting from? Are we allowed to know this? Will this information effect our/his children’s shidduchim (last week’s drasha)? He does look like a kiruv type of guy. A lot of high energy. (I could use some of that). Overall geshmakeh guy. Would be great in an out-of-town atmosphere. We would appreciate these basic formalities answered.
Anyway,
Rabbi Eliezer Ginsburg Shlita, Morah Diasrah of Agudas Yisroel Zichron Shmuel (Flatbush) puts ads in papers that he has those special cellphone lockers that are available to any Shul that calls him. There are even sponsorships available. They look beautiful and enhance the Shul lobby. We have a beautiful piece from him in our Shul. The ad has a phone # of 718-645-4698.
In Lakewood they have in many shuls these mini cellphone lockers, plus it comes with chargers!
He’s right. It’s been getting worse
First and foremost,Davening from a cellphone should be forbidden.
1. Rabbi Ginsberg’s cell phone lockers ran out long ago. I called a year ago to get one for my shul and was told that the original free batch was all gone and now it must be paid for.
2. The boxes do not come with chargers. Someone in Lakewood added that feature to the boxes that they got from NY.