Speaking of Alacrity
As the assemblage stood in order to pray the Amidah in the yeshiva in Lyon, a man continued sitting, too lazy and indifferent to get up. When another man noted this, he turned to him with a question. The lazy fellow, completely forgetting that he was in a Beit Hakeneset where one may not speak of mundane matters, responded. He immediately realized what he had done and was filled with remorse.
This is the end of the lazy man. Our Chachamim state that laziness breeds sin. Had he hurried to pray along with everyone else, he would never have spoken out of turn.
