petuhah

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

Meaning

Noun

  • An open parashah (a section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh), set apart in roughly the same way as a paragraph would be in modern text.

Origin

  • Borrowed from Hebrew פְּתוּחָה ("open"), feminine of פָּתוּחַ.

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