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A mechitza (halachik wall) together with an eruv chatzerot (Hebrew: עירוב חצרות), commonly known in English as a community eruv, is a symbolic boundary that allows Jews who observe the religious rules concerning Shabbat to carry certain items outside of their homes that would otherwise be forbidden during Shabbat.
In Judaism, a minyan (Hebrew: מניין \ מִנְיָן mīnyān, lit. (noun) count, number; pl. מניינים \ מִנְיָנִים mīnyānīm) is the quorum of ten Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations.
Partnership minyan (pl. partnership minyanim) is a religious Jewish prayer group that seeks to maximize women's participation in services within the confines of Jewish law as understood by Orthodox Judaism.
An independent minyan is a lay-led Jewish worship and study community that has developed independently of established denominational and synagogue structures within ...
Yavneh is responsible for programming ranging from daily minyanim to ski trips with the OCP (Orthodox Community at Penn) and everything in between. As one of the biggest college and Ivy League Orthodox communities it is a major draw for many Orthodox students to Columbia University.
"Guide for the Halakhic Minyan" is a work published to provide Jewish worship groups, especially Partnership minyans, with halachic (Jewish legal) sources that support the participation of women in leadership roles in traditional worship services, including the reading from the Sefer Torah (Torah scroll), Haftarah (biblical prophetic portions), and other special biblical readings, such as the ...
This synagogue is uniquely known for the many Minyanim performed simultaneously (there could be up to 4 services performed in a single Friday night). Borough Park, Brooklyn : "Beeras Hamayim", led by Rabbi Chaim Elazar Wassertheil, Rimanover Rebbe [ 2 ] of Borough Park, at 1870 53rd Street.
Gray "Minyan ware" is an archaeologist's term for a particular style of Aegean pottery associated with the Middle Helladic period (ca. 2100–1550 BC). More recently, however, archaeologists and palaeontologists find the term "Minyan" to be questionable: "To call the makers of Minyan ware themselves 'Minyans' is reprehensible", remarked F. H ...