Joe Schmo comments: Rabbi Enkin,
"the majority of North American sacharit-davening Jews do not daven in a minyan. "
"I cant beleive that anyone would declare all these people sinners."
The fact that "everyone is doing it" means it has to be right? Perhaps many American Jews do not realize something is more important than they thought?
I’m not arguing either way, for davening with a minyan as a requirement or as a meritorious practice, but certainly you cannot expect us to accept a decision based on the reasoning of "most american Jews do x, so therefore x is the correct way." That is not logical and does not get to the root of the issue.
With all due respect, it sounds as if you already had your mind made up beforehand, based on what American Jews do customarily, and then surveyed a bunch of sources and tried to find justification for it, or at least that ‘justification exists (somewhere in there) if it needed to be found and asserted’ within the sources. Is this really a proper halachic methodology?
