I’m tired of going to shul to get closer to God and finding a bunch of dirty smelly beggars bumming my trip.<\/p>\n
Midway through my Amidah (Judaism’s main prayer)<\/a> tonight, I was rudely interrupted by two psychos yelling about our charity distribution (morning and evening I like to put a nickel or dime in the tzedakkah box).<\/p>\n Not cool.<\/p>\n Why can’t these bums move down the street to the black neighborhood to do their fighting?<\/p>\n When I go to shul, I want to be surrounded by good people with high morals, not losers with perverse addictions.<\/p>\n This one deeply disturbed bloke tonight wheeled a shopping cart and two tall collections of boxes into the Beit Midrash. After the Ma’ariv service, I took it upon myself to wait by the door until he left.<\/p>\n When he finally got around to going (after having his say with the rabbi about a cell phone he was going to get), the guy dragged his stuff out, thanked me profusely in Hebrew and Yiddish, then reached into his pocket and offered me a few dollars.<\/p>\n Do I look like a bum to you?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m tired of going to shul to get closer to God and finding a bunch of dirty smelly beggars bumming my trip. Midway through my Amidah (Judaism’s main prayer) tonight, I was rudely interrupted by two psychos yelling about our … Continue reading
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