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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 Two Priests Are Destroyed (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot). Shemini, Sh'mini, or Shmini (שְּׁמִינִי —Hebrew for "eighth", the third word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 26th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Leviticus.
Each Shabbat during Chol HaMoed, the "intermediate days" of Passover and Sukkot, is known as Shabbat Chol HaMoed ("[the] Shabbat [of the] intermediate days" שבת חול המועד) which occurs up to twice a year during the week-long festivals. It can occur once during Passover and once during Sukkot ("Tabernacles") or in both.
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.)
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. [1] [2] In addition, while not required by law, there exists an Ashkenazi custom to also read the portion from the Prophets with its targum. [3]
A shofar. Behar, BeHar, Be-har, or B'har (בְּהַר —Hebrew for "on the mount," the fifth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 32nd weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Leviticus.
An empty Shabbat table was set up in New York City's Times Square on Friday, 27 October, to call for the release of more than 200 Israeli hostages held by Hamas following the militant group's ...
New York: New York University Press, 2009. Reuven Hammer. Entering Torah: Prefaces to the Weekly Torah Portion, pages 29–34. New York: Gefen Publishing House, 2009. Sacks. Jonathan Sacks. Covenant & Conversation: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible: Genesis: The Book of Beginnings, pages 121–44. New Milford, Connecticut: Maggid Books, 2009.