Torah reading
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title:
Torah reading
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Torah reading is a Jewish religious tradition that involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Torah scroll. The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the scroll from the Torah ark, chanting the appropriate excerpt with special cantillation (trope), and returning the scroll(s) to the ark.
It is also commonly called "laining". Regular public reading of the Torah was introduced by Ezra the Scribe after the return of the Judean exiles from the Babylonian captivity, as des
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Jewish tradition that involves the public reading from a Torah scroll
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah_reading
date created:
2005-01-30T14:46:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T15:49:53Z
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