As Meir said, Kyle, Praying in Shul was an accepted lifestyle in those days,
some were supported by their wives' families,  others by the community, but if
you lived in a poor one, you went hungry. What year was this... Well,  it had
to be between 1890, and 1910 as my dad was born in 1923 and his oldest sister
was 14 years ahead of him. (grandma thought dad was just a tumor!)  anyway my
dad was born in the States.

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