haftarah

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Noun haftarah has 1 sense

Haftorah, Haftarah, Haphtorah, Haphtarah - a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah
--₁ is a kind of excerpt, extract, selection

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Haftarah

Noun:

1. In Judaism, a portion of the Hebrew Bible read on Sabbath and holidays after the reading of the Torah.

2. The book containing the Haftarah readings.

Example sentences:

1. Every week, a different Haftarah portion is read in synagogue.

2. The Haftarah for this Shabbat is from the book of Isaiah.

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