My theory is that rich people feel less of a need to reach out to strangers and to make them feel welcome. Instead, they are used to people clambering for their attention.<\/p>\n
Perhaps a big part of the reason that churches are often more welcoming than synagogues is that churches have a higher proportion of poor people.<\/p>\n
Successful people have a life. They feel less of a need to convert people to religious beliefs and practices.<\/p>\n
Chuck emails:The rich resent the poor because the rich believe the poor believe that the rich owe something to the poor. The poor resent the rich because they are rich.<\/p>\n
770 Eastern parkway and certain other lubavitch schuls and some but not all upper west side schteiblach are the only place in which I have davened in which this duality didn’t exist. Others did, but not rich v poor. It was always nice to notice close friends who in other schuls wouldn’t be in the same row fighting and laughing as the equals they truly believed they were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My theory is that rich people feel less of a need to reach out to strangers and to make them feel welcome. Instead, they are used to people clambering for their attention. Perhaps a big part of the reason that … Continue reading