Lefancha: Brooklyn’s Eight-Minute Amida Shteibel

Why it surfaced

Lefancha is still trying to reach its first twenty founding members, each committing $100 a month toward renting a space. Its promise is wonderfully concrete: any nusach may lead, nobody has to rush their amida, and the chazarah begins on a known schedule.

A proposed Brooklyn mincha and arvit shteibel built around one unusually precise rule: the amida always lasts eight minutes, timed by an alarm clock on the teva.