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noun - the quorum required by Jewish law to be present for public worship (at least ten males over thirteen years of age)
noun - the minimum number required to be present for the conduct of a Jewish service
MINYANS - According to Greek mythology and legendary prehistory of the Aegean region, the Minyans (Greek: , Minyes) were an autochthonous group inhabiting the ...
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bDefinitionb of bMINYANb. : the quorum required for Jewish communal worship that consists of ten male adults in Orthodox Judaism and usually ten adults of either sex in Conservative and Reform Judaism. |
A quorum of ten men over the age of 13 required for traditional Jewish public worship. |
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According to Greek mythology and legendary prehistory of the Aegean region, the Minyans (Greek: , Minyes) were an autochthonous group inhabiting the Aegean region. However, the extent to which the prehistory of the Aegean world is reflected in literary accounts of legendary peoples, and the degree to which material culture can be securely linked to language-based ethnicity have been subjected to repeated revision. * The Mycenaean Greeks reached Crete as early as 1450 BCE. Greek presence on the mainland, however, dates to 1600 BCE as shown in the latest shaft graves. Other aspects of the "Minyan" period appear to arrive from northern Greece and the Balkans, in particular tumulus graves and perforated stone axes. John L. Caskey's interpretation of his archaeological excavations conducted in the 1950s linked the ethno-linguistic "Proto-Greeks" to the bearers of the "Minyan" (or Middle Helladic) culture. More recent scholars have questioned or amended his dating and doubted the linking of ma |