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Haftorah

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haf·ta·rah or haf·to·rah  (häftä-rä, häf-tôr, -tr)
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Variants of haphtarah.
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Noun1.Haftorah - 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 service at which your child reads the haftorah might be a Friday evening, Saturday morning or Saturday evening.
On her office bookshelves, alongside hundreds of scientific volumes, Davis keeps the Pentateuch and Haftorah and the Siddur sim Shalom, the prayer book of the Conservative Movement.
Like a long singing from the Haftorah, the 63-minute-plus "Kaddish" only explodes at the end, shuddering toward a dissolution that, here, is the only way to wholeness.
 
 
 
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