May a person outside the minyan of ten answer Kaddish or Kedushah, and is an interposition of filth or idolatry an issue?
Synopsis
The Mechaber rules that when ten are assembled, even those outside may answer. A second view holds that filth or idolatry between the responder and the congregation is an impediment.
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