55 Kaddish & Laws of the Minyan Flashcards
If someone is asleep, do they count in the minyan?
Yes
If someone is unable to respond, do they count towards a minyan?
Yes
If someone is asleep, should we wake them up for Kaddish?
Yes. MB: responding to kaddish is an honor.
A deaf person who can speak, is he counted in a minyan?
yes
A person who can hear but not speak (mute) are they counted in a minyan?
yes
A boy is considered a child until when?
Until they are 13 years old and one day and have 2 adult hairs
Can someone who transgressed a gazera be part of a minyan?
Yes. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have minyans.
Can someone who has been banned be part of a minyan?
No. OH 55.11
If a person is standing just outside the doorway, are they counted in a minyan?
Maybe. They are counted as being outside.. 55.13
If someone is outside a synagogue and looking through the window, can they be counted in the minyan?
Yes 55.14
His face needs to be visible to the people inside.
Yes even if the window is less than 4 tefachim,
Yes even if the window is several stories high.
If someone is in a roof or attic are they counted in a minyan?
No. Gloss, 55.14
If some are inside and some outside, and the shatz is inside do the ones outside count towards the minyan?
Yes. 55.15
What is an antechamber?
A small room leading to a main one.
If some people are in the synagogue and some are in the antechamber, do they combine to form a minyan?
No. 55.18
If the shatz is in a closet, and there are nine people in the synagogue, do they combine to form a minyan?
Yes 55.19
- Even if the closet is really big (and might be considered an antechamber)
- Since it is considered an integral part of the synagogue.
- Some say yes ONLY if the partitions do not reach the ceiling.
Once there is a minyan saying kaddish or kedusha, can someone outsdie the synagogue respond?
Yes. 55.20
- Some say that there can not be anything unclean between them.
- No idols between them.
- Beyur Halacha: Urine is ok to be between them.
If there are only 10 people in a town and one wants to leave for the days of awe, what should he do?
He should pay someone to take his place. 55.21
If there are 11 people in a town and two wants to leave for the days of awe, what should they do?
They have to pay one person to take their place. 55.21
- They should share the payment equally, unless one is super rich and one super poor, then they divide the cost according to their ability to pay.
- They still have to pay for the chazan to come.
- Gloss : It doesn’t matter if they will be gone for a lot longer than the days of awe.
Is it the custom to hire people to make up a minyan?
No, only during the days of awe. 55.22
Can the townspeople be fined for not participating in a minyan?
Yes, if they need the people to make a minyan 55.22
