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chavruta

chavruta is the alternative form of chavrusa.

Meaning of chavrusa

Noun

chavrusa (plural chavrusas)

  1. (Judaism, countable) A partner with whom one studies Talmud and other topics in Judaism; by extension, any study partner.
    • A bachur who takes arguments personally will very quickly find himself without a chavrusa.2001 June 30, toichen, “How long would you last in yeshiva?”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet)
  2. (Judaism, countable) A pair of students who study together.
  3. (Judaism, countable) A study session with a partner.
    • I have a Chumash chavrusa with Shlomo every Thursday at 9 pm.

Forms of chavruta

pluralchavrutas

Questions about chavruta

What is chavruta the alternative form of?
Chavruta is the alternative form of chavrusa.

Words near chavruta in the dictionary

  1. Chavoya
  2. Chavoyas
  3. Chavril
  4. chavrusa
  5. chavrusas
  6. chavruta
  7. chavrutas
  8. chavs
  9. chavtastic
  10. chavtastically
  11. chavurah

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chavruta (page history and authors); chavrusa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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