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From: naiman@pegasus.UUCP (Ephrayim J. Naiman)
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Subject: Re: A Procedural problem, dealing with lack of a minyan
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Date: Mon, 2-Jul-84 12:41:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  2 12:41:35 1984
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Well I have no answer to your question but I'd like to share a similar
story that occured to me.

When I was 16 and going to yeshiva in Rochester, I was asked one Friday night
to "lain" at a "shul" about 4 miles away, the next day.  So, I stayed up
all night and learned the "parsha".  Little did I know that this "shul" had a
lot of problems getting a "minyan".  Well, I trudged the four miles in the snow
and got there, only to find out that they indeed did not have a "minyan"
that "Shabbos".  We started davening anyway and when "Borchu" came around
and there were only 9 people I began to despair.

Being that I was a yeshive boy, everybody looked at me as though I was the
Rabbi, and asked me what to do.  I was no specialist in the laws of
"davening" without a "minyan", the whole idea of someone asking me the
law for anything threw me.  To make a long story short, I told them we'll
just have to go on without "Borchu".  In the meantime I was trying to
figure out what the "halacha" is if we still didn't have a "minyan" by
"laining".  I was still reciting the "Shemona Esrai" when the "Chazon" started
repeating it,  he evidently didn't know that you need a "minyan" for
"Chazoras Hashatz" and "Kedusha".  I was trying to figure out what to do
when Lo and Behold !!! As the "Chazon" was saying "Mechayai Hamaisim"
(He who returns the living from the dead) this guy with stringy, dirty hair,
disgusting looking jeans, a guy I could barely see the features of his
face through the dirt, walked in.  The only thing I cared about though
was that he had a "Kippah" on.  After "shul", I asked around and nobody
had ever seen him before.

						Spooky Huh ?
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