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The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הַלּוּחַ הָעִבְרִי ), also called the Jewish calendar, is a lunisolar calendar used today for Jewish religious observance and as an official calendar of Israel. It determines the dates of Jewish holidays and other rituals, such as yahrzeits and the schedule of public Torah readings.
No Jewish holidays fall on Friday, therefore the eruv tavshilin is never prepared at any time during the year. Rosh Chodesh Adar (or Adar II) occurs on Saturday. Three Torah scrolls are used for the Sabbath morning Torah reading: one for Mishpatim or Terumah (Pekudei in leap years), another for the Rosh Chodesh reading, and a third for Parshat ...
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.
As above, the basic obligation of Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum involves reciting the Hebrew text of the weekly portion twice and then reciting Targum Onkelos once. One should read a passage from the Torah twice, followed by the Targum translation of that passage, then continuing to the next Torah passage in order.
Simchat Torah, Hebrew for “Rejoicing of the Torah” is a Jewish religious holiday that commemorates the completion of the yearly cycle of Torah reading.. The Torah is a central part of Judaism ...
In the diaspora, where Simchat Torah is a separate day from Shemini Atzeret, Simchat Torah can never fall on Shabbat, and there is no Mincha reading for Simchat Torah. The individual readings for Simchat Torah are as follows: [12] Reading 1: Deuteronomy 33:1–7 Reading 2: Deuteronomy 33:8–12 Reading 3: Deuteronomy 33:13–17
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. Help ... Weekly Torah readings in Tammuz (Hebrew month) (6 P)
Rabbi Yechiel Michel Tucazinsky (Hebrew: יחיאל מיכל טוקצינסקי) (1871–1955) [1] was a halachic scholar and author who served as rosh yeshiva of the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Jerusalem. [2] [circular reference] He is best known for his work on the laws of mourning, Gesher HaChaim, [3] and for developing the Israeli religious calendar.