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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.
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 ...
It is divided into 54 sections representing the 54 weekly Torah readings, and each section is in turn divided according to the days of the week. Each daily section from Sunday to Thursday morning contains: a set number of verses [1] from the Torah reading for the week, together with its Targum and the commentary of Rashi;
Naso or Nasso (נָשֹׂא —Hebrew for "take a census" or "lift up," the sixth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 35th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 4:21–7:89.
Weekly Torah readings from Numbers (10 P) Weekly Torah readings from Deuteronomy (11 P) Pages in category "Weekly Torah readings" The following 4 pages are in this ...
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Weekly Torah readings in Tevet (4 P) Weekly Torah readings in Tishrei (1 C, 4 P) This page was last edited on 9 November 2019, at 18:36 (UTC). Text is ...