Day 3:
I am shocked how one comment or just one negative gesture could turn my week into a gehinom.
On the Shabbat of parashat Emor, I was for the first time as a guest in the home of 4 yehudim who live in my same city.
It was embarrassing to be a guest since everything was given to me as a gift without my having contributed anything.
I did my best not to bother them but to help them in any way I could.
But since I am learning Hebrew I am used to saying the amidah slowly. But they do it very fast, so I did it as fast as I could and even skipping “Elokai Netzor...” but I still made them wait for me.
I forgot to tell them not to wait for me at the amidah, and as I finished the last amidah (arvit lechol) someone asked me if I had finished while he was laughing.
That made me believe that my company was not pleasant.
But despite the pain I decided to spend the next Shabbat there (Shabbat Behar-Bechukotai), but this time paying them more than I could benefit from.
And also to tell them not to wait for me at the amidah.
But this Shabbat things were clarified, it was just a misunderstanding, the same person who told me that negative comment told me this time that I am a nice person for him, that made me cry with joy at the Shabbat table while we were laughing.
This time I did the amidah fast while they did it a little slower just for me.