{"id":581,"date":"2007-07-31T09:45:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T16:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2007-12-08T16:16:30","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T23:04:30","slug":"what-do-you-think-about-during-shmona-esray-judaisms-main-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"What do you think about during shmona esray [Judaism&#8217;s main prayer]?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/frumsatire.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/10\/what-do-you-think-about-during-shmona-esray\/\">From FrumSatire<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Jacob posts: &quot;I always wander off and start thinking about hot babes. Before ya know it, I&rsquo;m finished and commence doing the 3 step backup.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Not Frum posts: &quot;I look around and wait till at least three people are finished until I sit down, so no one thinks I didn&rsquo;t actually daven. I never actually say it, just trim my nails and try and think about life.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Daniel posts: &quot;You know the old joke about the guy who was just getting to sleep when he gets woken up by this tapping on his chest, only to realize that it&rsquo;s his right hand, and he&rsquo;s davening shmonah esrei? Yeah, well, it&rsquo;s not just a joke.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewcy.com\/interview\/kiss_your_mother_with_that_mouth_part_1\">Joanna Angel<\/a> replies to my email: &quot;I usually thought about what to eat for dinner, or what to wear out that night, or maybe where I could score some weed.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Mel writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve all been there. It begins with one small step, than 5 more. Three backwards, and Three forward. Slowly the world fades away, we are there carefully concentrating, as we stand before the One Above.<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly, the plane crashes and we are stuck on a deserted island, I have no time to worry about my own injuries as I rush to tend to a pregnant woman who&#8230; wait no it was just a disguise, that&#8217;s wierd, I am looking eye to eye at Jack Bauer, out of nowhere Mr. T, yells, &quot; Don&#8217;t be a Fool, it&#8217;s time for ressurection of the dead.<\/p>\n<p>I look around me and think, uh oh, I think I am shukkeling too much, better tone it down a bit, speaking of which, that guy over there looks like he either really needs to use the restroom, or arnold shwartzeneger is shooting up the floor around his feet. FEET, Damn, I think I forgot to bend my knees&#8230; maybe no one noticed, as I non-chalantly pull off a mini-bow hoping I can play it off as a misstep in my Shukkle if anyone asks&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For some reason, I often think about things I shouldn&#8217;t during the shmona esreh. That&#8217;s why I prefer to study Torah rather than allow my mind to wander to the things missing from my life.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From FrumSatire: Jacob posts: &quot;I always wander off and start thinking about hot babes. Before ya know it, I&rsquo;m finished and commence doing the 3 step backup.&quot; Not Frum posts: &quot;I look around and wait till at least three people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=581\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}