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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A lesson from the Torah, or Law, from which at least one section is read in the Jewish synagogue on every Sabbath and festival.

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Examples

  • According to her memoir, her father, a former student of the Volozhin yeshiva, “studied Talmud day and night;” while her mother spent every Shabbat reading the weekly parashah (portion of the Pentateuch) with the commentaries of Rashi (1040 – 1105) and Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089 – 1164).

    Sarah Feiga Meinkin Foner. 2009

  • The third mode of dealing with such tests is the way of the wise, who have cultivated judges and executors see previous parashah.

    Return Again | Jewschool 2007

  • The third mode of dealing with such tests is the way of the wise, who have cultivated judges and executors see previous parashah.

    2007 August | Jewschool 2007

  • My tag line this week is the verse from the parashah the liberals are going to outlaw soon.

    Latest Articles calendar Bible 2009

  • This will, of course, vary significantly based on the length of the parashah.

    Mah Rabu 2009

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