Dayan
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dayan is a noun meaning A rabbinic judge.
Meaning
A rabbinic judge.
Example Sentences
A medieval hymn composed by the Dayyan ("Judge") Daniel b. Yehudah of fourteenth-century Rome, recited in the daily morning Preliminary Service, and by some, at the close of the Arvit and Musaf services on Shabbat and festivals.
There is a famous story about Rabbi Yisrael Salanter who ate on the Bimah in Vilna at the end of the Yom Kippur morning service in 1848 during a cholera epidemic, together with two other Dayyanim, to persuade the congregation to eat during the epidemic.
Word Forms
- dayanim
- dayyan
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dayyan, decisor, rabbi, rabbin, deciser, rabbinist.
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