Just got back from a Bris. The grandfather of the baby delivered a whopper of a speech dissecting a Rambam for 20 minutes.
Dear Kind Sir:
This is a frickin Bris. Not a Shmooze in the Mirrer Yeshiva. Its 8am and people need to get to work. Please hold on the Pilpul and let me fress my bagel with cream cheese and leave.
Thanks!!!!!
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Sigh. Why is it that people never seem to hear of the word "moderation."
A few words at a bris is nice. A twenty minute speech is not.
The Wolf
"The grandfather of the baby delivered a whopper of a speech dissecting a Rambam for 20 minutes."
As least the mohel didn't dissect the kid! ;-)
BW: The kicker is that the guy didn't even look comfortable doing it. What makes people do something against their will like that?
JDJ - What makes people do something against their will like that?
Well, it's almost always caused by the same thing - the desire to "look good".
In the immortal words of Fernando, "it's better to look good than to feel good" :-)
Mark
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Well said!
Jacob,
As you know i was there as well. The guy didn't even wish Mazel Tov to his own kids and did not mention anything related to that bris at all !!!
Also, he probably didn't have to go to work that day - So he just blah blahed on.
And anyone (including fathers, rabbis, friends etc.) who speaks more then 5 minutes at a simcha should be taken out and shot (with a high powered water gun, of course).
Guess it's just one of those things that happens sometimes
By Walter's Bar Mitzvah, Eeees and I decided that we didn't want any long speeches or deep pilpulim that 80% of the audience won't listen to. So, instead, I spoke for about five minutes and then Walter spoke on the Parsha for about five minutes -- and that was it for the speeches.
Afterwards, people came over and thanked me for keeping it short and sweet. We were so happy that other people were happy that we did the same for George's Bar Mitzvah.
The Wolf
B"H
Well said. What was thinking?
You're lucky it was just the grandfather. I was witness to 4, if not 5, bloody speeches. This is also the reason I stopped going to suedat shlishi in my shul. You have a yorzeit, speak about the person instead of trying, unsuccessfully, to mash together the 5 dvar torahs you got from torah.org and aish for over half an hour.
Had one guy give a kiddush who actually started reciting poetry after speaking for a bloody hour. Even the rabbi told the gabbi to tell him to shut up already.
just don't go top lubavitcher events they love long speeches
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