Year: 2018

He makes a good point:

“If the use of such phones can be banned or deemed culturally unacceptable in courtrooms or movie theaters, it stands to reason they have absolutely no place in shul,” Rabbi Pruzansky wrote. “But the addictive qualities of these devices has led many people to genuinely feel that they cannot part with them even for the 30 minutes that the morning and afternoon davening requires, or even the eight minutes for a Mincha or Maariv davened separately. Using these devices as siddurim exacerbates the problem, and we are blessed with enough siddurim in a variety of versions that no one needs to use a phone as a siddur.”

Some people have the notion wanting and envisioning a certain way can manifest the object desired. They need to do Chazarah on their nursery rhymes; see the title!

Yes, those who succeed are obsessed and trust they’ll succeed, but mimicking them to gain success is like saying wet sidewalks cause rain. It’s more complicated, but we’ll leave it at that.