Rabbi Aryeh Lebowitz

Question number 10.

How should one shush or communicate to somebody talking to them when you can't just say the words out loud to signal for them to stop talking, i.e.

during Leni, Chazar, Shatz, Kaddish, etc.

?

I'm not really sure what the question is.

If someone's trying to talk to you, just point to your sitter.

Make the signal for one minute and point to your sitter.

Or start walking outside.

Motion for them to come outside with you.

And then outside you can say, yes, is something important?

And they'll feel foolish because it was nothing important.

It never is.

But if they're talking to each other and they're not talking to you, shushing never accomplishes anything or very rarely accomplishes something.

Making a confrontation doesn't help.

You may want to pick a different seat.

You may want to pick a different shul.

I don't know.

But in my experience...

creating a confrontation is not going to help very much.

Okay, everyone should have a wonderful Shabbos, a Freilich and Chanukah, and again, all of this should be a Gevaldikos Cholest for the Refuah Shalema, for our dear, dear friend, Yonatan Eitan, Ben Bashever Bracha, L'Refuah Shalema B'Karav Mamash.