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parashah

parashah

English

A closed parashah followed by an open parashah in a modern Torah scroll (closed at Numbers 10:35 and open at 11:1).

Noun

parashah (plural parashahs or parashot or parashoth or parashiot or parashioth or parashiyoth or parashiyot)

  1. (Judaism) A section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh, which may be open (a petuhah) or closed (a setumah).
  2. (Judaism) One of 54 sections of the Torah read weekly by religious Jews, particularly in the synagogue on the morning of the Jewish Sabbath

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