For seating planners at large yeshivos and shuls, there is no more daunting a task than finding just the right seat for the hundreds and thousands who demand them. Yet with technology and lots of siyata d’Shmaya, seats are filled and prayers are answered.
You sort through the pile of directories looking for the one containing your listing. You set aside volume after volume until you find the one you want. Flipping through the pages running your finger down the column of names you finally arrive at yours. You show it to a distinguished-looking man behind the table; he examines the page aims a scanner that flashes a blinding red light across your entry and seconds later there appears a ledger showing all your pertinent details from the previous year.
Is this the Sefer HaZichronos the Book of Remembrances that will be read aloud on Rosh HaShanah in which Hashem has recorded all your deeds? Is that your signature on the account?
Well not exactly. But if you want a seat for Rosh HaShanah davening you might want to get to know that man behind the table.
Shuls yeshivos and batei medrash are employing increasingly sophisticated means of matching mispallelim with seats. It’s a case of technology rising to meet the challenges presented by age-old dilemmas. Some challenges however are ageless and require generous doses of human ingenuity patience and bitachon.
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