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services in order to guarantee a quorum for public prayer. The minyan man was especially important to ensure a minyan for non-regular worshippers who came to synagogue services once a year on the
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in small communities paid a small stipend to a minyan man—typically a poor person or an older individual subsisting on public welfare—whose job it was to attend all weekday,
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