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The term Motza'ei Shabbat (Hebrew: מוצאי שבת —literally, the going out of the Sabbath) in Judaism refers to the time in the evening immediately following Shabbat, that is Saturday night. It is a time when, following one's declaration of the intention to end Shabbat, it is permissible to resume weekday activities that are prohibited on ...
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 ...
Havdalah, Shabbat closing service observed at Motzei Shabbat; Jewish prayer services on Shabbat; Maariv, Shabbat evening prayer; Pesukei dezimra; Shabbat candles, lit on Preparation Day evening prior to sunset; Shalom, a Hebrew greeting on Shabbat; Torah reading. Weekly Torah portion; Category:Weekly Torah readings; Yotzer ohr; Zemirot, Shabbat ...
The Torah reading of the week contains the Song of the Sea (Book of Exodus 15:1–18). This was the song by the Israelites after crossing the Red Sea. There is no special Torah reading. The haftarah includes the Song of Deborah. There is an Ashkenazi custom to feed wild birds on this Shabbat, in recognition of their help to Moses in the Desert.
The Biblical Hebrew Shabbat is a verb meaning "to cease" or "to rest", its noun form meaning a time or day of cessation or rest. Its Anglicized pronunciation is Sabbath. A cognate Babylonian Sapattu m or Sabattu m is reconstructed from the lost fifth Enūma Eliš creation account, which is read as: "[Sa]bbatu shalt thou then encounter, mid[month]ly".
James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord (Latin: Iacobus from Hebrew: יעקב, Ya'aqov and Ancient Greek: Ἰάκωβος, Iákōbos, can also be Anglicized as "Jacob"), was, according to the New Testament, a brother of Jesus. He was the first leader of the Jerusalem Church of the Apostolic Age.
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 Vayishlach has six "open portion" ( פתוחה , petuchah ) divisions (roughly equivalent to a paragraph, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter פ ( peh )).
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.