I know that my services can be long and my sermons boring, but at the end of one service last Fall, Mother Anna, a retired Haitian member of Beth Elohim, shook my hand and said with a smile, "Rabbi, Hashem willing I am going to donate a new set of comfortable chairs to the synagogue." I agreed whole heartedly: "If the chairs had more cushion, the people would have more patience."  Her Rosh Hashanah prayer became our Hanukkah blessing. At this time of Skekalim let us all "Repair the breaches of Lord's House."