Reply To: Davening like a horse to the barn 📖🐎

lesschumras,

The first minyan in my shul is tied to the train schedule, the second minyan is slower.

That’s fine, and similar to what my shul does. The minyan I was davening at is also tied to a specific end time (but is NOT a matza minyan), thus it starts earlier on Mondays and Thursdays to accomodate leining. I go to this one the majority of the week because I need to be at the office by a certain time on most days. And on most days the davening at this minyan is fast, but fine with me. I started this rant, because on that day, it seemed like you could barely fit “shalom aleicha rebbe” between “od yehallalucha sela” and “tehilas Hashem yidaber pi.” That was not normal. I understand the need for fast, but you’ve actually gotta say the words, and there is no way the tefillos were actually being said.

Following this minyan there are slower ones, and I go to these when I’m allowed to work from home.