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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
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The torah gets one set of notes, the haphtorah another.
Archive 2008-08-01 2008
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