Ten for a Quorum Learned From Joseph's Brothers

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 148:6

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"Go down there": whoever buys produce from the market is brought low. (Genesis 42:5) From where do we learn that an individual may not recite "Holy"? As it is said, "and I shall be sanctified among the children of Israel," and it is written elsewhere (Numbers 16:21) "separate yourselves from the midst of this congregation"—just as there it refers to ten, so here it refers to ten. Rabbi Yose bar Avin said: if you derive it from the word "midst," they would be many. Rather, it says here "the children of Israel" (Leviticus 22:32), and it says elsewhere "and the children of Israel came to buy [grain]"—just as there it means ten, so here it means ten.

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