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PHOTOS: Gabbai Of Elad Shul Takes A Giant Step To Silencing Cellphones In Shul


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The gabbai of the Shirat Naftali Shul in Elad has taken a giant step towards silencing mobile phones in shul. The gabbai spoke with mispallalim, asking how to get them to leave their phones out of shul towards preventing distractions during tefilla.

The gabbai had cubbies made, but not just cubbies. There are chargers inside so one can have one’s phone safely locked away and charging instead of being bothered during davening.

The sign outside the shul reads: No more shiurim and tefilos with cellphones. Simply select an appropriate cubby, place the phone inside, lock it and then come and daven and learn with a quiet head.

The shul is described as home to mispallalim who are “working chareidim” as they are referred to. The gabbai explained he spoke to people in advance of having the cubbies built, and the gabbai explained to the news mispallalim said they would only use the cubbies if they contained chargers, which they do. It is reported people are beginning to lock up their phones and the shul is becoming quieter.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem / Photo Credit: Courtesy of BeChadrei Chareidim)



17 Responses

  1. “The shul is described as home to mispallalim who are “working chareidim” as they are referred to…
    The article makes it sound as if the term “working chareidim” is an oxymoron. The use of cell phones has become pervasive in everyday life, whether one works or shteigs full time. This is an interesting solution to the issue but why can’t people just set the phones on mute for 30 minutes twice a day? Now if only this gabbai can figure out how to get the daveners to stop talking during davening since in my experience, the noise and interruption from the seemingly endless chatter is a much bigger problem than the occasional cell phone ringing.

  2. Not to detract from this wonderful article. The White Shul in Far Rockaway has had that for years. The President Naftali Solomon designed this himself.

  3. Or, and I’m sure many of us have felt this way;
    We institute a new takana
    New shul rules
    1)If your cell phone goes off in shul any mispallel has the right to take it and stomp on it
    2) if you answer your phone in shul (as unbelievable as that is , I’ve seen it more the once) any mispallel has a right to stomp on you

  4. Rav Eliezer Ginsburg shlita has been giving out similar units for a few years already. Ashreichem to both of them. זכותם עומדת לעד.

  5. What is so newsworthy about this?
    See
    the Lakewood scoop
    2013/02 photos first ever cell phone lockers come to a Lakewood shul

  6. I’ve seen this in Lakewood also. It’s sad that people can’t turn their phones off in shul. Why are Jews so weak? Eevn during Chuppas phones go off.

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