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I sometimes celebrate<\/strong><\/span> the High Holidays a week or two before the real ones. I have the shul <\/em>almost to myself. \u00a0The upside: no annoying people.<\/p>\n However, this plan defeats one of the purposes of the High Holidays– hanging out with large numbers of Yidn.<\/em> My rabbi says if you attend the real High Holidays– and shul <\/em>in general– you’ll feel less lonely.<\/p>\n I sometimes get agitated on Rosh Hashanah morning because there is so much commotion and noise in the shul<\/em>.\u00a0 Then the rabbi sermonizes about loneliness and community, saying, “Hell is other people according to Sartre, but what’s the alternative– sitting at home in your underwear watching reruns?”\u00a0 Point taken.<\/p>\n In the sanctuary, <\/strong><\/span>I see a doc who gave me a colonoscopy.\u00a0 I see, several rows over, a PhD scientist who is so anti-religious his seat needs an ejection button; his wife forced him to come.\u00a0 The guy next to me, a real estate broker, says, “How’s occupancies?”<\/p>\n “Commercial, bad.\u00a0 Residential, OK,” I say. \u00a0I don’t mind some biz talk on yuntif.<\/em> No big deal.<\/p>\n I see a weight-loss doc in the loges (the elevated seating around the perimeter of the sanctuary). Her picture is occasionally in the Cleveland Plain Dealer<\/em> next to the word “obesity.” \u00a0\u00a0She’s in excellent shape.<\/p>\n A Jew visiting from New York gives me greetings from a New Rochelle cousin.\u00a0 Nice.<\/p>\n A couple people<\/strong><\/span> say hi to me because of the band.\u00a0 I don’t know their names.<\/p>\n After services, a worshipper asks if I remember him. Yes, I know him. \u00a0\u00a0A few years ago Yiddishe Cup played his son’s bar mitzvah.\u00a0 He is happy I remember him.<\/p>\n “You have to come over for shabbes<\/em>,” he says.\u00a0 “And you won’t have to bring your clarinet.”<\/p>\n Sweet.<\/p>\n Happy New Year. I sometimes celebrate the High Holidays a week or two before the real ones. I have the shul almost to myself. \u00a0The upside: no annoying people. However, this plan defeats one of the purposes of the High Holidays– hanging out with large numbers of Yidn. My rabbi says if you attend the real High Holidays– […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shul-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8981,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/8981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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