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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.
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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.
Weekly Torah portion; Portal:Judaism/Weekly Torah portion; T. Tokhachah This page was last edited on 7 January 2021, at 05:04 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
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 readings always begin at a parashah break, with the single exception of Vayechi (Genesis 47:28). The division into weekly readings is a prominent feature of the Tiberian masoretic codices along with the division into smaller parashot, and they are indicated with a special flourish in the margin parallel to the line in which ...
In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות , aliyot.In the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Parashat Vayishlach has six "open portion" (פתוחה , petuchah) divisions (roughly equivalent to a paragraph, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter פ ()).
Rav Huna bar Yehuda says in the name of Rabbi Ammi: "one should always complete the reading of one's weekly Torah portion with the congregation, twice from the mikra (i.e. Torah) and once from the Targum." [4] This statement was interpreted as the ritual of Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum and is codified in the Shulchan Aruch: [5]