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  • noun a short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue following a reading from the Torah

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  • The torah gets one set of notes, the haphtorah another.

    Tisha Ba'av 2008

  • The torah gets one set of notes, the haphtorah another.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

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