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The Reading of the Torah

The practice of reading the Torah in the synagogue is at least two thousand years old and is probably much older but there is a good deal of uncertainty regarding the beginnings of the custom of reading the Torah sabbath by sabbath. It is probable that at an earlier period only special portions were read,…

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