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What is a minyan?

What is a minyan? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (by extension) A Jewish prayer service.
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During the shiva, the rabbi visited or called every day and the daily minyan came to our home.
When a minyan is lacking for synagogue services, those who have gathered merely recite their prayers as private individuals.
It seemed to Feivke he had been at the minyan a long, long time, and he felt as though some great misfortune had befallen him.
Dusratta was a minyan and his power seems to have been the chief in Armenia at this time.
The bar mitzvah reads his Torah or Haftorah passage in shul and can then be counted as a man for purposes of a minyan.
Even the simplest routines are hard to return to after shiva, such as attending the first minyan in shul or the first P.T.A. meeting at a child's school etc.

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