I know they heard more of the sermon then me

Saturdays are always busy for my husband and I, we don’t mind it at all. We enjoy everything we do on Saturdays, we leave the house around 9:15 and pick up on of the lady’s from church. She is fun and a interesting person. I bring her home before lunch at church, which normally means I am in the back of the line. I do not mind these, even though sometimes it means I really have a hard time finding stuff I can eat with my allergies.

Rabbi spoke about La Shan horah, this is evil speech, even if it is the truth. It is basically anything that harms the person who it is being spoken about. Even his commentary was about the same subject. I normally miss about 90 percent of his Sermon because I am with the younger kids leading them in worship. Yesterday was a harder day with the kids, we have some families who still celebrate Christmas and other family who don’t. It normally the family where they are visiting or newer to the faith. I won’t judge them for celebrating Christmas. I did the avoid the topic of them wanting to do Christmas songs, because we don’t celebrate it as a congregation and I am sure leadership wouldn’t approve of it.  One of my little kids told the other, we don’t do that here. Santa Claus came up by one of the kids asking if he been at the other kids house. One of my girls in the class who is just very out spoken, which gets her in trouble sometimes pipes up, “Theres no such thing as Santa Claus.”  I honestly didn’t really know how to handle the sistuation, so I said yes that right their is no Santa Claus, but at the same time I am wondering if I have may have cause that kid some mis trust.

I got back to the service and heard the tail end of Rabbi Sermon, you know I think when we are told we aught to not do something it in our nature to just go and do it. After service I had a couple people come up to me and ask me questions about someone else, which I really felt was wrong. I told them I don’t know, frankly if I knew it none of their business neither. If they want to know something they need to simply go and ask that person speak with them and leave me out of it.  I know I have been guilty of saying stuff that grant it, it was true but it hurt the person I spoke about which is worst. I probably will not bring it to Rabbi attention what I may need to start doing is telling them, “I don’t want to hear it”, or “why don’t you go and talk to that person” then if they keep it up I will go and say something, but I really don’t want to be confrontational