Reply To: Saving shul seats, sidurrim for others not yet here

Blocking others from enjoying property to which they are entitled can be considered a criminal offense.

Impeding traffic, jamming air waves can become criminal!

I feel people that “save” for others are on “thin ice”.

Imagine “saving” access to the bathroom (single occupancy ones) – not allowing anyone to use it because “my wife/child/friend” is on the way and “really” needs it?!

Holding the elevator at your floor because the wife/child/friend is on-route, so no one else in entire building can use elevator until you are “done” saving it.

Is saving a seat or siddur (and why stop at one? Let’s save multiple seats and siddurim) in shul really any different??!!

Bathrooms, elevators and lehavdil siddurim or pieces of kugel at kiddush are all commodities of limited supply that are offered to the ATTENDING public, not those that may show up later.

Stop the Saving!