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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]
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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
The Daf Yomi program has been credited with making Talmud study accessible to Jews who are not Torah scholars, [3] [4] contributing to Jewish continuity after the Holocaust, [3] and having a unifying factor among Jews. [5] [6] Each day of the daily calendar, including Tisha B'Av, is included, [7] and online audio versions of lectures are ...
Some do the entire reading nonstop on Friday morning. Others read one aliyah of shnayim mikra on each day of the week. One should preferably finish the reading by the Shabbat morning Torah reading. [2] The Hebrew text should be recited with cantillation and with proper pronunciation. The Targum, however, should not be recited with cantillation ...
The term "Torah reading" is often used to refer to the entire ceremony of taking the Torah scroll (or scrolls) out of its ark, reading excerpts from the Torah with a special tune, and putting the scroll(s) back in the Ark. The Torah scroll is stored in an ornamental cabinet, called a holy ark (aron kodesh), designed specifically for Torah ...