petuhah

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English

A closed section followed by an open section (petuhah) in a modern Torah scroll (closed at Numbers 10:35 and open at 11:1).

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Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew פְּתוּחָה (open), feminine of פָּתוּחַ.

Noun

petuhah (plural petuhot or petuhoth)

  1. (Judaism) An open parashah (a section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh), set apart in roughly the same way as a paragraph would be in modern text.

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