Random Post Rosh Hashanah Thoughts

* One of the hardest things for a shul to do is get past its origins. Hamayvin yavin.

* Eitan Katz led the shachris davening on the second day of Yom Tov. This is his third year at the shul, and he seems to have matured in a profound way. It was the sweetest, most inspirational davening that I have ever heard. I was blown away.

* The WQ is my shul during the Rosh Hashanah seems to have been way down. This suggests that some of the stranger people that frequent our shul are guests or non-members. (This is not to suggest that the WQ was not high, just that it wasn't off the charts as it often is on Friday nights and during the third meal).

* While I have never been known for my patience, I must be getting old and even more ornery than usual. Although our ba'al musaf is a talmid chacham whom I dearly love and respect and who has a beautiful voice and davens with amazing kavanah, he is also, how shall I say it....slow. It used to not bother me at all. This year, however, I found myself having a hard time holding kup for the last half hour.

* I don't like fast days.