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Each Torah portion consists of two to six chapters to be read during the week. There are 54 weekly portions or parashot.Torah reading mostly follows an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the divisions corresponding to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years.
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 29 Cheshvan, 5785—November 30, 2024 “'The Lord, the Lord, God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth; keeping mercy to the thousandth generation, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin.” (Exodus 34:6–7.)
Informally, the portion of the Torah read or blessed by the maftir is called the "maftir portion", or the "maftir" for short: in a Chumash,the word "maftir" is printed in the margin at the beginning of that portion. On a normal Shabbat morning, seven people are formally called up to the Torah, and a part of the week's Torah portion is read by ...
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 6 Kislev, 5785—December 7, 2024 “Who is like You, O Lord, among the mighty? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?” (Exodus 15:11.)
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The work is based on the rules of study laid down in the Peri Etz Chaim of Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, in the Sha'ar Hanhagat Limmud (chapter on study habits). In this he recommends that, in addition to studying the Torah portion for the forthcoming Shabbat each week, one should study daily excerpts from the other works mentioned, and lays down a formula for the number of verses or the topic to ...
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 20 Kislev, 5785—December 21, 2024 “Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice; and water came forth abundantly . . . .”
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 29 Cheshvan, 5785—November 30, 2024 "The Lord said to Abram, ‘Go forth from your native land and from your father's house to the land that I will show you.’" (Genesis 12:1.)