Originally Posted by
Hayden
On some airlines (hello, old Tower Airlines), I bet there was a lot of praying going on before and during the flights!
Ahhh, good ole' Tower Air... I remember them.
I think we only flew them once, and that once was once too many.
There's still quite a lot of praying on pretty much any flight to TLV, especially on El Al. Usually it happens a couple of times mid-flight, not during boarding, but maybe that's because of the timing of the flights.
Originally Posted by
Hayden
One wonders whether a more thoughtful approach would have been to pray prior to boarding, rather than hoping one would be out of the way once inside a plane with FAs interested to minimize potential departure delays.
I am not Hassidic, although I have plenty of experience being next to them on flights, and I believe (but am not certain) that there is a time-of-day requirement here. I could very well be wrong but I don't believe it to be a coincidence that a large group of Hassidim would all pray at the same time on most of my TLV flights. I don't think it's anything
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