<p>YouTube videos is now evidence?? When you make a sweeping statement about a group of people and call them all apikorsim, who is it that is outside the pale of Halacha?</p> <p>I am a Lubavitcher and I say without fear of contradiction: NO ONE IN LUBAVITCH DAVENS "TO THE REBBE". (Obvious medical cases excluded). No one in Lubavitch believes that the Rebbe is anything but a Tzaddik and a G-dly human being. Those that are sure that when G-d will send us Moshiach Tzidkeinu it will be the Rebbe believe just that.</p> <p>To say that "most Mishichisten (and I am not one of them) don't stop there" is an assumption - and does not seem to be a strong enough case to bashmutz a whole eidah kedosha.</p> <p>I thank you for looking into the matter and I look forward to another shiur on this gevaldige website clarifying the issue.</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">Although is it customary today to allow a non-observant Jew to be counted in a minyan, on the grounds that he comes under the category of &ldquo;tinok shenishbah&rdquo;, does this permission also include Karaites? Karaites are definitely Jews but they do not accept the Oral Law. The Rambam wrote a teshuvah on this question (edition &ldquo;Mekitzei Nirdamim&rdquo; responsum14) where he clearly rules in the negative, the reason being that Karaites do not accept the idea of a minyan.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;" align="left"><span style="color: black; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">He was born on the 7th day of Chanukah. Thirteen years later on the 7th day of Chanukah there were 9 Jewish men above the age of Barmitzvah plus him in the Shul. Yet there was not a minyan! How could this be? In the year he was born, there were 29 days in Kislev; thus he was born on 2 Teves. Thirteen years later there were 30 days in Kislev and the 7th day of Chanukah was thus on 1 Teves. Therefore he only became a man on the following day, the 8th day of Chanukah. Incidentally, over 40 years ago I was in a Shul where this actually occurred, but they incorrectly decided that there was a minyan.</span></span></span></p>