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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.
Yeshiva Week is the informal term for a vacation period that occurs every year from mid to late January, in which many Jewish day schools and yeshivas afford time off for their students. [1] It is primarily a North American phenomenon. This week is also held to avoid possible halachic issues with the typical American winter vacation held from ...
Readings 1–7: Regular Torah Reading Maftir: Exodus 30:11–16 Haftarah: II Kings 11:17–12:17 When Rosh Chodesh Adar falls on Shabbat, the individual readings for Shabbat Shekalim are as follows (done from three scrolls): [59] Readings 1–6: Regular Torah Reading (it is divided into six aliyot instead of the usual seven)
Daf Yomi (Hebrew: דף יומי, Daf Yomi, "page of the day" or "daily folio") is a daily regimen of learning the Oral Torah and its commentaries (also known as the Gemara), in which each of the 2,711 pages of the Babylonian Talmud is covered in sequence. A daf, or blatt in Yiddish, consists of both sides of the page. Under this regimen, the ...
Shaar HaShamayim Yeshiva invites the public to participate in special yeshiva events during the year. The most popular is the Thursday afternoon prayer service held during the weeks of Shovavim (the weeks coinciding with the Torah readings of Shemot, Va'eira, Bo, Beshalach, Yitro, and Mishpatim, and, in a Jewish leap year, Terumah and Tetzaveh).
An alternative triennial cycle of Torah readings also existed at that time, a system whereby each week the portion read was approximately a third of the current. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia , the triennial cycle "was the practice in Palestine, whereas in Babylonia the entire Pentateuch was read in the synagogue in the course of a ...
A former student at a prominent Brooklyn yeshiva says he was sexually abused by a fellow pupil “nearly daily” for half a year when he was 11 years old, according to a new lawsuit — that ...
Mishnah Yomit, daily study of the Mishnah (6 year cycle); Mishnatit covers all of Mishnah at a much faster pace (1 year cycle). Daily Rambam Study, one or three chapters of the Mishneh Torah (respectively, a 3 or 1-year cycle) Mishnah Berurah Yomit - daily study (2.5 or 5-year cycle) Kitzur Shulchan Aruch Yomi - daily study (1 year cycle)