minyan

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A minyan is a quorum of at least 10 Jewish adults required for public worship.

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  1. noun The minimum number of ten adult Jews or, among the Orthodox, Jewish men required for a communal religious service.

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  • FESTIVITIES to mark the 25th anniversary of Rabbi Mordechai Krasnjanski at the Or Chadash minyan are set to take place at Caulfield Hebrew Congregation
  • A minyan is a quorum of at least 10 Jewish adults required for public worship. —  Oy Bay!
  • It was Zelig who would email or call every month to tell me which section of the Torah he wanted me to read at the special minyan-which became known in time as the —  Elms in the Yard
  • About five minutes later, one of the minyan, a transplanted carpet store owner from Brooklyn, turned to us, saw that we were sitting there like beggars, and told the server to bring us wine and cake. —  J. Weekly
  • "They grabbed him and said they needed a minyan," Naggar says. —  J. Weekly
 

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  1. Hebrew minyān, number, minyan, from Aramaic minyānā, from mənā, to count; see mnw in Semitic roots.

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  1. Hebrew, from manah, count, reckon.
 

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/ˈminyæn/
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