and a dybbuk would have to choose to come back closely enough to join a minyan. Prayer is a free-will act and requires intent.
I feel vindicated in telling spatch about the importance of sentience!
(I seem to have a strong image of a dybbuk counting in a minyan—and disappearing afterward—and I don't know where it comes from. I didn't write it. It pointedly does not happen in Demon (2015), where there are not enough Jews left on the ground for the +1 of the dybbuk to make a difference. Are there dybbuks in Peter S. Beagle beyond "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel," which isn't this situation, either? Jane Yolen? You?)
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I feel vindicated in telling
(I seem to have a strong image of a dybbuk counting in a minyan—and disappearing afterward—and I don't know where it comes from. I didn't write it. It pointedly does not happen in Demon (2015), where there are not enough Jews left on the ground for the +1 of the dybbuk to make a difference. Are there dybbuks in Peter S. Beagle beyond "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel," which isn't this situation, either? Jane Yolen? You?)