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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.
'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 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 )
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 25 Tevet, 5785—January 25, 2025 "And let all among you who are skilled come and make all that the Lord has commanded." (Exodus 35:10.)
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 25 Tevet, 5785—January 25, 2025 “'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.)
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 25 Tevet, 5785—January 25, 2025 "And let all among you who are skilled come and make all that the Lord has commanded." (Exodus 35:10.)
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 25 Tevet, 5785—January 25, 2025 "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.)
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 3 Shevat, 5785—February 1, 2025 “And now, O Israel, give heed to the laws and rules that I am instructing you to observe, so that you may live to enter and occupy the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.” (Deuteronomy 4:1.)