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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 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 ...
'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.
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The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 6 Kislev, 5785—December 7, 2024 “He had a dream; a stairway was set on the ground and its top reached to the sky, and angels of God were going up and down on it.” (Genesis 28:12.)
Moses Speaks to the Children of Israel (illustration from Hartwell James's The Boys of the Bible). Vayelech, Vayeilech, VaYelech, Va-yelech, Vayelekh, Wayyelekh, Wayyelakh, or Va-yelekh (וַיֵּלֶךְ —Hebrew for "then he went out", the first word in the parashah) is the 52nd weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ...
Simchat Torah arrives this week. Here's why North Jersey Jews consider it one of their happiest holidays — but also, this year, a difficult one.
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 29 Cheshvan, 5785—November 30, 2024 "As an eagle that stirs up her nest, hovers over her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, bears them on her pinions, the Lord alone did lead [Israel], and there was no strange god with Him."