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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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The Kaddish is to be recited only in the presence of a duly constituted quorum, a minyan, which consists of ten males above the age of Bar Mitzvah.
The bar mitzvah reads his Torah or Haftorah passage in shul and can then be counted as a man for purposes of a minyan.
While traveling, I was forced to have to pray on my own, and without a minyan.
My rabbi has a hard time getting a minyan together on Saturdays.
I am a heathen but will help make up a minyan if required, and said kaddish for my mother when she died.
During the shiva, the rabbi visited or called every day and the daily minyan came to our home.

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