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n. - A short selection from the Prophets read on every Sabbath in a Jewish synagogue.

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  • I shudder to think what I had to sing aloud in my Haftorah, without knowing its meaning.
  • He signed his email with a passage from Isaiah, which reminded me of my Haftorah reading from my Bar Mitzvah.
  • In the Haftorah, the accompanying prophetic reading I Kings 18:1-39, Elijah faces off in contest with prophets he knows to be false.
  • She taught her first formal adult Bat Mitzvah class in 1976, focused on Hebrew, synagogue skills, and the chanting of Torah and Haftorah, to a group of thirty adult women.
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