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Davening in a Minyan
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How Many People are needed to Start Shemoneh Esrei?
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Minyan in a Stairwell
My apartment building has a Minyan in its stairwell. Are the steps a mchitza to be mafsik tziruf for a Minyan?
Who Can Be Counted in a Minyan?
Can Non-Religious Jews be counted as part of the Minyan? Can you count people who are still in the middle of Shemoneh Esrei? What should you do if people leave in the middle of the Minyan?
Raising Doubts
If someone always disturbs others during Davening, is it permitted to "test" his awareness?
Lessons on Davening in a Minyan
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Various Events FOR WHOM NOT TO VOTE
Rav Zvi Yehuda Kook stressed that Israeli politics is G-dly, so I have no problem answering this common question on a Torani blog. Also, Free-Will is a G-d-given right and obligation, to "destine one's fate" (R. Soloveichik, Kol Dodi Dofek, 67), so I obviously don't tell others how to vote. But once not a few (especially young) have already asked, a couple of personal words from experience and thoughts from chazal & Rav Kook which may be of help to others, mainly for whom NOT to vote.
P'ninat Mishpat Fallout from Failure to Install Elevator – part II
based on ruling 85007 of the Eretz Hemdah-Gazit Rabbinical Courts
