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Torah reading
Jewish tradition that involves the public reading from a Torah scroll
Torah reading
Torah reading (Hebrew: קריאת התורה, romanized: K'riat haTorah, lit. '"Reading [of] the Torah"'; Ashkenazic pronunciation: Kriyas haTorah) 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 (or scrolls) from the Torah ark, chanting the appropriate excerpt with special cantillations (tropes), and then returning the scroll(s) to the Torah Ark. This practice is also commonly called 'leyening, a loanword from Yiddish: לייענען, romanized: leyenen, lit. 'to read, to read out loud'. It is also spelt lain, leyn, layn, or otherwise, as the use of a standardized romanization of Yiddish in popular culture is irregular at best. Regular public reading of the Torah was introduced by Ezra after the return of the Judean exiles from the Babylonian captivity c. 537 BCE as described in the Book of Nehemiah. In the modern era, Orthodox Jews practice Torah reading according to a set procedure...
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