<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); ">A very good point made by R D Cohen; </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); ">making a minyan at </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); ">a public gathering where lots of NJ onlookers might see the "strange" </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); ">practice that might not necessarily increase their respect for the Torah, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.917969); ">but it wouldn't actually get in anybody's way or disturb anybody.</span><br clear="all">
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I suggest that it depends upon the message that is communicated. Making a Minyan that causes inconvenience is a Ch HaShem simply because it metaphorically spits on others - it says that we dont care what inconvenience we cause, our concerns are more important than yours. I assert that this is the defining guide for ChHaShem.</div>
<div>Making a Minyan where that message is not communicated is not a ChH. And in between those two points is a large grey area that will certainly be hotly debated pending the personalised reading of various onlookers. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><br>Best,<br><br>Meir G. Rabi<br>
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