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For the Jew, “living with the times” always meant looking to the weekly Torah reading for guidance and inspiration. Our comprehensive Parshah section includes translations, summaries, readings and essays for each week of the year.
TORAH portions Weekly Portions from the Tanakh and the Writings of the Apostles ... Portion Date Hebrew Date Torah Haftarah Apostles Shemini 6 Apr 2024 27 Adar II Lev. 9:1–11:47 2 Sam. 6:1–7:17 Rom. 11–16 Tazria 13 Apr 2024 5 Nisan Lev. 12:1–13:59 2 Kings 4:42–5:19 1 Cor. 1–5
On Simkhat Torah, we read the last portion of the Torah, and proceed immediately to the first paragraph of Genesis, showing that the Torah is a circle, and never ends. In the synagogue service, the weekly parshah is followed by a passage from the prophets, which is referred to as a haftarah.
A daily learning cycle for completing Tanakh annually. On Shabbat, each Torah portion is recited. On weekdays, Prophets and Writings are recited according to the ancient Masoretic division of sedarim.
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.
Each week, all over the world, a portion of the Torah — Judaism’s foundational text — is read publicly in synagogues according to a yearly cycle. To standardize that practice, the Torah is divided into 54 portions.
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