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- noun Plural form of
minyan .
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Examples
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Instead, she advocated egalitarian minyans of women and men.
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In addition, there were no blessings, invocations, benedictions or words of Torah as part of the flow of the conference, let alone any organized minyans or other distinctly Jewish rituals.
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Simran Sethi: I met you in the basement of the Alpine Community Center in Alpine, New Jersey for your morning minyans at Chavurah Beth Shalom.
Simran Sethi: Rabbi Dennis Shulman: Battling an "Enemy of the Environment" 2008
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On a kinder note, I like indie minyans minus the elitism and overblown sense of mission.
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But I think that indie minyans are an expression of a particular form of American attitudes about spirituality: that it needs to meet my needs now, as an individual; that the payoff needs to be upfront, and so on, that has become pervasive in American religion - it’s consumerist, and it worries me.
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A great many of these minyans actully exist only because of the largesse of established communities, who give them siddurim, let them use Torahs, facilities, etc.
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To echo once again what Sarah said, “if you hate indie minyans, just don’t go to them, okay?”
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IS there any way of registering minyans within a shul e.g. library minyans or the like or do they have to be listed separately?
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Will any of the independant minyanim grow to provide 3 minyans a day?
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Of all the various shuls and independant minyans out there, how many are genuinely welcoming of people of very different backgrounds and places in their lives?
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