parashah
A closed parashah followed by an open parashah in a modern Torah scroll (closed at Numbers 10:35 and open at 11:1).
Meaning
Noun
- A section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh, which may be open (a petuhah) or closed (a setumah).
- One of 54 sections of the Torah read weekly by religious Jews, particularly in the synagogue on the morning of the Jewish Sabbath
Origin
- From Hebrew פָּרָשָׁה.
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