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What is a parashah?

What is a parashah? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Judaism) A section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh, which may be open (a petuhah) or closed (a setumah).
  2. (Judaism) One of 54 sections of the Torah read weekly by religious Jews, particularly in the synagogue on the morning of the Jewish Sabbath
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The broad concern with the earth that is established in the first parashah remains.
Notes and Remarks On the Weekly Parashah, translated by Shmuel Himelstein.
Devarim is part of the parashah, a weekly Torah portion read during prayer services.
Unusually, these sermons do not deal with the subject of the corresponding Parashah, but are each devoted to ritualistic popularisation.
Her mother was learned in Hebrew and stuidied the weekly parashah with the commentaries of Rashi and ibn Ezra on Shabbat.

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