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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 practice adopted by many Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist and Renewal congregations starting in the 19th and 20th Century, in which the traditional weekly Torah portions are divided into thirds, and in which one third of each weekly "parashah" of the annual system is read during the appropriate week of the calendar.
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.)
Bechukotai, Bechukosai, or Bəḥuqothai (בְּחֻקֹּתַי bəḥuqqōṯay—Hebrew for "by my decrees," the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 33rd weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the 10th and last in the Book of Leviticus.
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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 ...
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 6 Kislev, 5785—December 7, 2024 “For this commandment . . . is not in heaven, that you should say: ‘Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us . . . ?’”
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 3 Shevat, 5785—February 1, 2025 "God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them." (Genesis 1:27.)