How to Use minyan in a Sentence

minyan

noun

• The program will begin with an evening minyan service at 7 p.m. There is no charge to attend.
  — Courant Community, 10 Apr. 2018
• Levin recalled how Hoffmann would often help to make sure there was a minyan, a quorum of 10 men for prayer.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 July 2017
• What began with about a dozen people — barely more than a minyan — has grown to 100+ actors.
  — Giovanni René Rodriguez, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2021
• Some of the wounds have healed over and the conversation after minyan now includes things other than the shooting.
  — Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner, CNN, 27 Oct. 2019
• But people sometimes in secret gathered in the barracks and organized a minyan.
  — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
• Church bells sounded in the distance, a reminder of the unlikely setting for a Jewish mourning ritual, along with the monks in black hooded robes among the minyan.
  — Emanuella Grinberg, Smithsonian, 11 July 2018
• Visitors are welcome after 1 pm through the evening minyan at both residences.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 2 May 2018
• In order to perform certain rituals or prayers, Judaism calls for a gathering of at least 10 people to form a minyan, or quorum.
  — Ryan Prior, CNN, 14 Aug. 2020
• Jewish congregations have had to conduct video-only minyans, a group of 10 gathered to observe the sabbath on Friday evening.
  — al, 22 Mar. 2020
• On any given Friday night, the only synagogue in this city to survive the Holocaust draws enough worshipers for a minyan, the obligatory quorum of 10 Jewish adults.
  — James McAuley, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
• Greenblatt mustered an Orthodox minyan — a quorum of ten adult Jewish males — for morning services at the synagogue, which dates to the 19th century.
  — Ron Kampeas, sun-sentinel.com, 27 June 2019
• The Highland Park temple has been holding online services, including a twice daily minyan, a gathering to recite prayers.
  — Shira Ovide, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• Only men could be counted for a minyan, a tradition that has since changed in Reform and Conservative Jewish traditions.
  — Yonat Shimron, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2020
• Very much in disarray, the congregation finds a new temporary space in a location that makes finding a minyan, the 10 men needed for daily prayers, difficult.
  — Kenneth Turan, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• Joyce Fienberg, a fellow congregant, called to wake him at 6 a.m. every morning and then accompanied him to the synagogue’s morning prayer service, known as minyan.
  — Allie Caren, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019
• While traditionally a minyan, or quorum, of 10 people is needed to sit shiva and say prayers in the seven days after a burial, local rabbis have approved groups of 10 that come together on Zoom.
  — Sophie Carson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2020
• According to Orthodox Jewish tradition, 10 men — known as a minyan — are needed to say the mourner’s prayer, and several older women apologized that their husbands weren’t home.
  — Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 12 July 2019
• 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.
  — Ben Harris, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Sep. 2019
• In the Orthodox Jewish community that limit might operate to exclude all women, considering 10 men are necessary to establish a minyan, or a quorum.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Nov. 2020
• The recitation of certain communal prayers at Passover, like many other ritual celebrations in some orthodox Jewish communities, involves a minyan, or a quorum of 10, traditionally male, participants.
  — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 7 Apr. 2020
• Doing so technically violated a 2001 decision by the Conservative movement’s Jewish law authority, which had voted by overwhelming majority to bar the convening of an online prayer quorum, or minyan.
  — Ben Harris, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024