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<p>In Avodah Digest V25#433, REMT wrote:<br>
> As I understand it, kaddish is a chovas hatzibbur -- when a minyan has completed something _as a minyan_, be it p'sukei d'zimra, chazaras hasha"tz, learning, etc., a kaddish is said. If it was not done b'tzibbur, there is no subsequent kaddish obligation. Thus, if a person was studying g'mara alone, there is no justification for then gathering a minyan for him to say kaddish, and the same should be true for kiddush levana, unless at least a rov minyan said Aleinu. In the case of Borchu, on the other hand, the entire minyan is participating.<br>
> This is not to say that it is proper to gather a minyan to say Borchu, other than at the times the din provides for: at k'rias haTorah, before birchos k'rias Sh'ma, and at the conclusion of a t'filla which contains birchos k'rias Sh'ma, for the benefit of latecomers who missed it. I don't know whether it is permitted for ten people to get together and say Borchu at any other occasion. <<br>
Couldn't one be m'chaleiq between a davar shebiqdusha (e.g. "Bar'chu," which *requires* a minyan) and Bircas HaL'vanah (which doesn't require a minyan) and suggest that there really is no chovas hatzibbur even when a minyan (in the spirit of "b'rov-am hadras-Melech") has said the latter? FWIW, KAJ never said either "Aleinu" or Qaddish after Bircas HaL'vanah, nor is either recorded in Baer's Siddur Avodas Yisrael for seider Bircas HaL'vanah. <br>
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On the subject of Bircas HaL'vanah activities: many look at me strangely when I say "Shalom Aleichem" to them not just once but a 2nd and 3rd time, as they're used to the practice of saying it once to three different people, but RMA 426:2 says, "...v'yomar lachaveiro gimel p'amim, 'Shalom alecha...,'" and such is my practice :). <br>
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A guten Shabbes and all the best from<br>
--Michael Poppers via RIM pager</body></html>