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mehitzah

American  
[muh-khee-tsah, muh-khee-tsuh] / mə xiˈtsɑ, məˈxi tsə /
Or mechitzah

noun

Hebrew.

PLURAL

mehitzoth, mehitzot, mehitzos

  1. a curtain or other divider that serves as a partition between the women's and the men's sections in Orthodox Jewish synagogues.

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