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An additional data point worth considering when contemplating Mordechai Schmutter’s advice on outdoor minyanim (“Stay Outdoors” July 16, 2020): Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 90:9 (Translation from Sefaria):

A person should try to pray in the synagogue with a congregation, and if they are unable (lit. “anus,” coerced) to come, they should intend to pray while the congregation is praying. [This applies to people living in small settlements, unable to pray in a minyan; they nevertheless should pray Shacharit and Arvit during the time of congregational prayer. —Sma”g] If they (the person) could not pray at the time when the community prays and is praying alone, nevertheless they should pray alone in the synagogue.

She-nir’eh et nechamat Yerushalayim u-binyanah bi-mherah ve-yamenu (may we see the consolation of Jerusalem and its rebuilding speedily in our days).

Joel Rich
West Orange

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