How to Use minyan in a Sentence

minyan

noun
  • In the past year, many similar minyans have formed in such places as Brooklyn and Boston.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Visitors are welcome after 1 pm through the evening minyan at both residences.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 2 May 2018
  • But people sometimes in secret gathered in the barracks and organized a minyan.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
  • His cousin volunteered his home for the week of shiva; a rabbi from Puerto Rico coordinated the minyans.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 22 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Now the law committee is preparing to formally consider whether the allowance for a Zoom minyan should outlive the pandemic.
    — Ben Harris, sun-sentinel.com, 14 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • At morning minyan—the weekday service—worshippers began concluding the proceedings with a prayer for Israel.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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