Book clubs · family BC · Report 16

Anyone may start one. What differs is how open it is.

A club is a container with four things added: a topic, a shape, a cadence and an openness rung. A person, a kehila, a school, a bookstore, a beth din, a giyur programme or an institute may own one — and the owner kind caps how public it can ever be, because a school club full of children and a bookstore club advertising stock are not the same object.

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The room →
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How open is it

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No club with that owner yet. Start one — the form is three fields and a rung.

No clubs yet — start the first one. The form is three fields and a rung, and the reading comes from the topic you pick.

Start a club

Nothing here is approved by us. The only thing Meldar decides is the ceiling on how public it may be, and it decides that from who owns it.

Who owns it

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What shape

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What a club is, underneath

One containers row with four fields added — topic, shape, cadence, openness. No new table, no second calendar, no second membership list. That is why this is a week of work and not a quarter.

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A ref is not verified until it has been fetched. Verified means this project fetched it and recorded the result; proposed means the form looks right and nobody has tried it; absent means we checked and it is not in our sources — named here rather than quietly dropped, because three of the best clubs on this list are in that column.

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Five rungs, and four questions answered separately.

Who knows it exists, who may read the discussion, who may join and who may post are four different questions. A single public/private switch answers them all at once and is wrong about at least two.

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The ceiling is decided by who owns it.

Not by a setting, and not by asking nicely. These caps are data — one field per owner kind — so a later hurry cannot quietly widen them.

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Prompts BC1–BC12 in PROMPTS-bookclub.md · the evidence in Report 16 · the topics and caps live in meldar-bookclubs.js, so adding one is a data change. Schedules from Hebcal under CC-BY 4.0, licence position in sources/hebcal.md; text from Sefaria, version and licence named on each portion.

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