@eimearkuopio
Without wanting to diminish that sensation, do you count towards the minyan as a gentile?
silentstep
er. Sam I definitely do not want to be discouraging at all, but to be counted in a minyan one must in fact be an adult Jew (some congregations will only count men, too). it's generally considered good manners to let them know that you're not Jewish so they know they can't count you.
Yeah, that occurred to me belatedly, which is my bad, after the prayer had already begun. If I’d known he was like...going for a minyan I would have said something ahead of time, but it was the first service where it was even mentioned -- he was just like “GREAT. GOT TEN” and dove in.
At that point person #11 dropped in, at least, and I felt it would be less disruptive to keep silent, especially since I would have had to yell it out in chat because we were muted.
