takah: How do you have more kavana in the 30 minute shachris minyan you attend, that you’ve boasted of, than on a 2 hour bus minyan?
I don’t believe I was boasting at the time; I think I was just stating a fact, that our minyan is 30 minutes.
How do we have more kavana? Let me count the ways:
1. Our minyan faces one way the entire time; we’re not subject to the twists and turns of the road.
2. We do not have to balance and/or sway because the floor is moving.
3. We do not have to raise our voices to be heard above a bus engine or outside noise.
4. We do not have to ask people to move around and change seats.
5. There is more inherent kedusha in a shule, which is a mikdash me’at, than in a bus, which has zero kedusha.
I don’t think I need to go on; I’ve made my point.