Reply To: Punctuality To Davening On Erev Shabbos

If things just happen to come up at lighting time, then you know it’s the yetzer hora!

One week it’ll be looking for shoes, the next it will be a shirt button. It is very interesting to note that the latecomers come late every week while the earlycomers come early every week.

Lets’ ask the following question? Why aren’t the early comers encountering shirt buttons to sew on or shoes to find. If a person had a meeting scheduled for a certain time with a top ranking official, dare he say that he was tied up looking for his childs’ shoes?

Besides, coming late and disturbing other peoples kavana while shuffling about is against halacha?

I am judging everyone lkaf zechus that all this happens to people without thinking. Once this is thought about, this problem can easily be rectified.

For example, in the case of the missing shoes, one should anticipate this and at 12pm get the shoes together rather than at 5.