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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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Simchat Torah (Hebrew: שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה ; Ashkenazi: Simchas Torah), also spelled Simhat Torah, is a Jewish holiday that celebrates and marks the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle.
In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות , aliyot.In the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible, Parashat Chayei Sarah has three "open portion" (פתוחה , petuchah) divisions (roughly equivalent to paragraphs, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter פ ()).
Reading 1: Numbers 28:1–5 (Rosh Chodesh Torah reading) Reading 2: Numbers 28:6–10 (Rosh Chodesh Torah reading) Reading 3: Numbers 28:11–15 (Rosh Chodesh Torah reading) Reading 4: Numbers 7:42–47 (second scroll) Note: Four readings are done on Rosh Chodesh days throughout the year. Chanukah Day 6 (Shabbat, always Rosh Chodesh) [50]
The Seventh Plague of Egypt (1823 painting by John Martin). Va'eira, Va'era, or Vaera (וָאֵרָא —Hebrew for "and I appeared," the first word that God speaks in the parashah, in Exodus 6:3) is the fourteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Exodus.
Jews also read the first part of Parashat Ki Tisa, Exodus 30:11–16, regarding the half-shekel head tax, as the maftir Torah reading on the special Sabbath Shabbat Shekalim, which often falls on the same Sabbath as Parashat Mishpatim (as it does in 2023, 2026, 2028, and 2029).
When it does, the unusual event of a Torah and Haftarah reading at the mincha right before Shabbat takes place. This is fairly rare; the most recent occurrence was in 2023, while the next will happen in January 2025 (as the 2024 observance).