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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 outside of Israel on Shabbat, Saturday, 20 Kislev, 5785—December 21, 2024 “How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your dwellings, O Israel!” (Numbers 24:5.) a red cow (painting “The World Cow” by Franz Marc )
'Twice Scripture and once translation'), is the Jewish practice of reading the weekly Torah portion in a prescribed manner. In addition to hearing the Torah portion read in the synagogue, a person should read it himself twice during that week, together with a translation usually by Targum Onkelos and/or Rashi's commentary.
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 25 Tevet, 5785—January 25, 2025 "And now, O Israel, what does the Lord your God demand of you? Only this: to revere the Lord your God, to walk only in His paths, to love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and soul, keeping the Lord's commandments and laws, which ...
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 20 Kislev, 5785—December 21, 2024 "You shall not defile the land in which you live, in which I Myself abide, for I the Lord abide among the Israelite people.’" (Numbers 35:34.)
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 3 Shevat, 5785—February 1, 2025 “The land is Mine; you are but strangers resident with Me." (Leviticus 25:23.) On Mount Sinai , God told Moses to tell the Israelites the law of the Sabbatical year for the land.
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 3 Shevat, 5785—February 1, 2025 “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, 25 Tevet, 5785—January 25, 2025 "The Presence of the Lord appeared in the sight of the Israelites as a consuming fire on the top of the mountain."