Minyan in a sentence

Shiva minyan During shiva, a minyan (a quorum of ten or more adult Jews) traditionally gather at the shiva home for services.

Those Reform and Reconstructionist congregations that consider a minyan mandatory for communal prayer, count both men and women for a minyan.

They are still without a minyan most weeks; therefore, there is as yet no obligation for the Torah to be read.

Trone has been a “minyan” member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a category requiring a minimum annual $100,000 donation.

When I visited during a Shabbat service, the community was not able to get a minyan.

On Saturday, terrorist groups targeted with rocket shells the vicinity of Aleppo International Airport, al-Nairab Military Airport, residential houses in the village of Minyan causing material damage.

The Biala Rebbe ordered not to count in a minyan those who cooperate with the police and inform on illegal prayer services.

Grinning right next to him is the shliach in a South American village, a man whose only struggle greater than making a living is the struggle to assemble a minyan so a local can say Kaddish.

Launched as part of a broader effort by SAR to inspire a deeper connection to prayer, the meditation minyan is one of several alternatives to the traditional daily prayer service offered by the school.

Join their minyan at The Bronfman Center for Jewish Life on the Downtown Campus of NYU located at 7 E 10th St. Rabbi David Kalb will be officiating along with their (prayer leaders), Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein and Yitzchak Schwartz.

Over its first months, the minyan has averaged nearly 40 worshippers on Friday nights, with slightly smaller crowds on Saturdays.

Along with some prayers, it can only be recited with a minyan of ten Jews.

A very small number of congregations that identify themselves as Conservative have resisted these changes and continue to exclude women from the minyan.

Communal prayer is preferred over solitary prayer, and a quorum of 10 adult males (a minyan ) is considered by Orthodox Judaism a prerequisite for several communal prayers.

Halakha holds that communal Jewish worship can be carried out wherever ten Jews (a minyan ) assemble.

Israel's late Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren may have ruled in 1974 that while women do not constitute a minyan, they may still carry out full prayer services.

Judaism had originally counted only men in the minyan for formal prayer, on the basis that one does not count someone who is not obligated to participate.

Minyan Ma'ariv prayer in a Jaffa Tel Aviv flea-market shop Ma'ariv/Arvit (evening prayers) main In many congregations, the afternoon and evening prayers are recited back-to-back on a working day, to save people having to attend synagogue twice.

Nonetheless, even the most liberal Orthodox authorities hold that women cannot count in a minyan for purposes of public prayer.

Since 1973, Conservative congregations have overwhelmingly become egalitarian and count women in the minyan.