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<p><b>Maftir</b>  is the last person <a href="page.php?w=Aliyah_%28Torah%29">called up to the Torah</a> on <a href="page.php?w=Shabbat">Shabbat</a> and holiday mornings: this person also reads (or at least recites the blessings over) the <a href="page.php?w=haftarah">haftarah</a> portion from a related section of the <a href="page.php?w=Nevi%27im">Nevi'im</a> (prophetic books).</p>

<p>Informally, the portion of the Torah read or blessed by the maftir is called the "maftir portion", or the "maftir" for short: in a <a href="page.php?w=Chumash_%28Judaism%29">Chumash</a>,</p><p>
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