<br style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Eli Turkel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">from daily halacha<br>
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1186. One may not count one who denies the truth of Torah Sh'baal Peh<br>
- aka The Oral Torah (and certainly one who denies The Written Torah<br>
received at Sinai via Moshe Rabbeinu) towards a minyan. [One may not<br>
count Conservative or Reform Jews towards a minyan.] Shulchan Aruch<br>
w/Mishnah Berurah 55:11, Piskei Tshuvos 55:21<br>
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Eli Turkel<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br>ther first part is Halachah p"suqa<br>The second part VIZ.:<br><br><blockquote>"One may not count Conservative or Reform Jews towards a minyan."<br>is AIUI an extension enforcing the first part<br>
</blockquote><br>or I might have chosen to phrase it thusly<br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;" class="gmail_quote">"We may not count REFORM Jews into a minyan - as a S'yag or policy -- SHEMA we might come to count deniers of TSBP..."<br>
</blockquote><br>Then you might have to come up with a new Term for just such a policy :-)<br>And then you might find MORE AND MORE of them :-)<br><br><br>Good shabbos<br><br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Shalom uVRacha<br>
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