[Avodah] from a parsha sheet

[Jonathan Baker]

From: Zev Sero <zev at sero.name>
> Saul.Z.Newman at kp.org wrote:

> > Question of the week
> > A minyan is required for many religious activities. Usually, ten male
> > adult Jews qualify for a minyan.
> > a. When can women or children be included in a minyan?
> > b. When must a minyan include two rabbis?
> > c. when must a minyan consist of ten Torah scholars?
 
> B is gomel.  I think A may be megilah, according to at least some
> opinions.  I'm still trying to puzzle out C.

If B is true, how did anyone ever say Gomel in our shul, where AFAIK
there's only one rabbi?

Isn't A kiddush hashem?  Other than exceptional cases like "12-year-old
boy with a chumash when you've been waiting two hours to get a minyan
and nobody is passing in the street".  Or it could be megillah, but that
inclusion of "children" seems odd. 

Oh, unless A is a leining where kvod tzibur permits, and it's not the
minyan of 10, but the minyan of 7 that ascend to the Torah.

C appears to be for mattiring a neder made in a dream (KSA 67:8):

http://www.torah.org/learning/halacha/classes/class252.html?print=1

(google is your friend)

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