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In Judaism, a minyan (Hebrew: מניין \ מִנְיָן mīnyān, lit. (noun) count, number; pl. מניינים \ מִנְיָנִים mīnyānīm) is the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations.
Art by Sefira Lightstone. There are certain prayers or rituals that can only take place in public. Jewish law defines this as the presence of 10 males of 13 years or older. This is known as a minyan, quorum. The quorum is so important, that the prayer service itself can be referred to as a minyan.
Minyan is the Hebrew word that describes the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations. The word itself comes from the Hebrew root maneh (מנה) meaning to count or to number.
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minyan, in Judaism, the minimum number of males (10) required to constitute a representative “community of Israel” for liturgical purposes. A Jewish boy of 13 may form part of the quorum after his Bar Mitzvah (religious adulthood).
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By Shmuel Kogan. Photo: MathKnight. The biblical source for the requirement of ten men to complete a minyan (lit., “count” or “number”) is Numbers 14:27. Moses sent spies to scout the land of Canaan. Ten of them returned and issued a report concluding that it was not a conquerable land.
The Power of Minyan. How praying daily with ten strangers helped me recover after my wife's miscarriage. By Rabbi Elisha Friedman
Into a family assaulted by chaos, battered by unjustifiable loss, the shiva minyan asserts continuing purpose, affirms a world view that stands in the face of death and proclaims the imperative of life, acting on the biblical charge for “one generation to laud God’s works to another.”
