Hope you are all having a great day!
After a service on Sabbath morning, a young boy suddenly announced to his mother, "Mom, I've decided to become a Rabbi when I grow up." "That's okay with us, but what made you decide that?" "Well," said the little boy, "I have to go on Sabbath anyway, and I figure it will be more fun to stand up and yell, than to sit and listen."
Rabbi sometimes yells but never at us! [What I meant to say is he raises his voice not actually yells....gets excited really!]
A little girl became restless as the rabbi's High Holy Day appeal sermon dragged on and on. Finally, she leaned over to her mother and whispered, "Mommy, if we give him the money now, will he let us go?"
HA!
A mother with a fidgety seven-year old boy told her rabbi how she finally got her son to sit still and be quiet during shul. About halfway through the sermon, she leaned over and whispered, "If you don't be quiet, Rabbi Cohen is going to lose his place and will have to start his sermon all over again!" It worked.
She is lucky he was even still paying attention halfway through. I sometimes sneak looks around during service and there are adults who are glazed over, their minds clearly elsewhere. I admit sometimes I am one of them but rarely and usually only if the oneg smells good and distracts me because I didn't eat something before leaving the house :)
[this is not meant in a disrespectful way at all. I enjoy all the sermons Rabbi gives but sometimes I gt hungry...sometimes people tune out it is in no way a complaint about content...I forget that the written word, like so much of what I say, is often taken in a way I didn't mean it.] Thanks for the correction husband.
We're at the halfway point!!
Wednesday, April 22
Temple Humor
Posted by Mrs. West at 2:11 PM

