Work and/or Prayer?

On the eve of the Day of Atonement, when the time had come to say KolNidre, all the Hasidim were gathered together in the House of Prayer waiting for the rabbi. But time passed and he did not come. Then one of the women of the congregation said to herself, “I guess it will be quite a while before they begin, and I was in such a hurry and my child is alone in the house. I’ll just run home and look after it to make sure it has not awakened. I can be back in a few minutes.” She ran home and listened at the door. Everything was quiet.