{"id":11624,"date":"2009-10-13T10:12:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T18:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11624"},"modified":"2009-10-13T10:12:57","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T18:12:57","slug":"is-it-a-mitzvah-to-pray-with-a-minyan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11624","title":{"rendered":"Is It A Mitzvah To Pray With A Minyan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hirhurim.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/praying-with-minyan.html\">Joe Schmo comments<\/a>: Rabbi Enkin,<\/p>\n<p>&quot;the majority of North American sacharit-davening Jews do not daven in a minyan. &quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I cant beleive that anyone would declare all these people sinners.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The fact that &quot;everyone is doing it&quot; means it has to be right? Perhaps many American Jews do not realize something is more important than they thought? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;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 &quot;most american Jews do x, so therefore x is the correct way.&quot; That is not logical and does not get to the root of the issue. <\/p>\n<p>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 &#8216;justification exists (somewhere in there) if it needed to be found and asserted&#8217; within the sources. Is this really a proper halachic methodology?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Schmo comments: Rabbi Enkin, &quot;the majority of North American sacharit-davening Jews do not daven in a minyan. &quot; &quot;I cant beleive that anyone would declare all these people sinners.&quot; The fact that &quot;everyone is doing it&quot; means it has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=11624\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[7699,19374,4422,19373,823],"class_list":["post-11624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-judaism","tag-american-jews","tag-cant-beleive","tag-davening","tag-joe-schmo","tag-minyan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}