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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.
In the diaspora, the first reading from the Torah on Shemini Atzeret (Deuteronomy 14:22–15:23) is split into three readings (i.e. the same readings as when yom tov sheni shel galuyot for the last day of Passover and for Shavuot coincide with the Sabbath) to accommodate the seven readings on the Sabbath.
During the festival, Jews celebrate another year of reading and studying the Torah: the first five books of the Bible—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy.
The term "Torah reading" is often used to refer to the entire ceremony of taking the Torah scroll (or scrolls) out of its ark, reading excerpts from the Torah with a special tune, and putting the scroll(s) back in the Ark. The Torah scroll is stored in an ornamental cabinet, called a holy ark (aron kodesh), designed specifically for Torah ...
Reading 1: Numbers 28:1–5 (Rosh Chodesh Torah reading) Reading 2: Numbers 28:6–10 (Rosh Chodesh Torah reading) Reading 3: Numbers 28:11–15 (Rosh Chodesh Torah reading) Reading 4: Numbers 7:42–47 (second scroll) Note: Four readings are done on Rosh Chodesh days throughout the year. Chanukah Day 6 (Shabbat, always Rosh Chodesh) [50]
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