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The Promised Land (Hebrew: הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ha'aretz hamuvtakhat; Arabic: أرض الميعاد, translit.: ard al-mi'ad) is Middle Eastern land in the Levant that Abrahamic religions (which include Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and others) claim God promised and subsequently gave to Abraham (the legendary patriarch in Abrahamic religions) and several more times to his ...
In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות , aliyot.In the masoretic text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Parashat Devarim has no "open portion" (פתוחה , petuchah) divisions (roughly equivalent to paragraphs, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter פ ()), and thus can be considered one whole unit.
Moses Sees the Promised Land from Afar (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot). Pinechas, Pinchas, Pinhas, or Pin'has (Hebrew: פִּינְחָס , romanized: Pinḥās "Phinehas": a name, the sixth word and the first distinctive word in the parashah) is the 41st weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the eighth in the ...
Toledot, Toldot, Toldos, or Toldoth (תּוֹלְדֹת —Hebrew for "generations" or "descendants," the second word and the first distinctive word in the parashah) is the sixth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
The Torah starts with God creating the world, then describes the beginnings of the people of Israel, their descent into Egypt, and the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. It ends with the death of Moses, just before the people of Israel cross to the Promised Land of Canaan.
Moses Pleading with Israel (illustration from a Bible card published 1907 by the Providence Lithograph Company) Va'etchanan (וָאֶתְחַנַּן —Hebrew for "and I will plead," the first word in the parashah) is the 45th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Deuteronomy.
The Daughters of Zelophehad (illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster). In the Talmud and the Zohar the reference to Zelophehad having "died in his own sin" is used to equate him with the man executed for gathering sticks on Shabbat, [12] [13] but Sifri Zutta says that it cannot be known if he was.
The Pentateuch or Torah (the Greek and Hebrew terms, respectively, for the Bible's books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy) describe the prehistory of the Israelites from the creation of the world, through the earliest biblical patriarchs and their wanderings, to the Exodus from Egypt and the encounter with God in the wilderness.