sarahbarah2:
It is truly wonderful that you put so much time and effort into your davening. Halevi more people should put that much time and effort into their davening.
Wolf:
“It should NOT take an hour to daven Shmoneh Esrei every day”
Why not? What is wrong with spending an hour a day (or 6 hours a day, for that matter) davening?
“and the school certainly has no requirement to accommodate her unusual davening habit.”
Umm… religious rights?
“I think she can find a way to make her davening meaningful and *still* be within a reasonable time frame.”
Just as we shouldn’t judge somebody with a 90 second SE, we shouldn’t judge somebody with a 90 minute SE. If sarahbarah2 feels that an hour-long SE is what she needs, kol hakavod. It’s not like she’s saying everybody must daven SE for an hour – only that she wants to. What do you have against that?
“But what the heck. We all know that modus operendi around here has always been to tear people down rather than help them, right? So certainly I *must* have been trying to be negative and harmful to her.”
Umm… for a rant against judging people’s motives negatively, you seem to be judging people’s motives rather negatively….
“That (adding extra stuff into SE) is wonderful. However, it can also be done *outside* the context of SE.”
Yes, it can be done out of SE… but why should it be?
RSRH:
“we can’t focus too strongly on any one of them to the detriment of others.”
I disagree. I think that davening certainly should be focused on, even if it must come at the “detriment of other” things. Our davening is the core of our personal relationship with Hashem, which is the point of our existence.
Mod. 80:
“i have never said a S’E for an hour, but i have on many occasions said it for about 25-35 minutes… its what Tefillah should be. i cant always do it. it is work. hard work for me. it is Avodah. it is wonderful “
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
apushatayid:
“Have the principal of your old school speak to the principal of the new school.”
Good idea.