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[quote=Anonymous]There's nothing wrong with quietly going out for a bathroom break or something, but the fact that you can't focus for 2 hours on a movie certainly puts you out of step with most of the adult population. It is not uncommon for religious services to be that long.

There will likely be a prayerbook with English and Hebrew and possibly a book with the Torah (first 5 books of the bible, Christians would call it part of the Old Testament); you could always browse through those as a polite distraction but try to stand when others are standing and sit when they sit. It would not be polite to bring your own book or, worse, to use your phone. But it's fine to be thinking your own thoughts and not be intimately attending to every detail of the sermon and prayers!

If you cannot handle this, you should not attend. But if your inability to focus is keeping you from doing things you care about, you may want to ask your primary care doctor and maybe a psychologist or neuropsych for assessment and help.[/quote]

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