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Minyan, The

Minyan, The: (lit. “number”); the quorum of ten necessary for communal prayer

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The Individual and the Community  The Jew and Prayer: Lesson 2  Video  RankRankRankRankRankRank
The various advantages of praying alone and with a group.
Itche and Jono try to build up the congregation by helping a guy fulfill his pledge to pray with a group of ten.
The Talmud deduces from the narrative of the spies that ten men constitute a congregation, thus the minyan which is used for specific sacred rituals. Why is it derived from the erring spies?
Igeret HaKodesh: Epistle 23  Tishrei 20  RankRankRankRankRankRank


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