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Parahsat: Bamidbar Torah Reading: Numbers 1:1–4:20 “Take a census of the whole Israelite company by the clans of its ancestral houses, listing the names, every male, head by head”. — Numbers 1:2 While in Hebrew the book is called “B’midbar” — in the wilderness — the English name of numbers describes the beginning of the Continue Reading »
Parashat: Behar-Bechukotai Torah Reading: Leviticus 25:1–27:34 “These are the commandments that the Eternal gave Moses for the Israelite people on Mount Sinai” — Leviticus 27:34 This last line of Leviticus sums up the entire book, a fitting conclusion to a book that was almost entirely about the giving of law, with only two brief narrative Continue Reading »
Parashat: Tazria-Metzora Torah Reading: Leviticus 12:1–15:33 “When an eruptive affection occurs in cloth of wool or linen fabric, in the warp or in the woof of the linen or the wool, or in a [tanned] skin or any [clothing] made of skin…” — Leviticus 13:47–48 In a section of highly detailed procedures in dealing Continue Reading »
Parashat: Vayikra Torah Reading: Leviticus 1:1–5:26 “When a person unwittingly incurs guilt in regard to any of the Eternal’s Commandments…” Leviticus 4:2 “If it is the anointed priest…” Leviticus 4:3 “If it is the community leadership of Israel…” Leviticus 4:13 “In the case it is a chieftain…” Leviticus 4:22 The first parsha of Leviticus, Vayikra, Continue Reading »
Parashat: Terumah Torah Reading: Numbers 28:1–15 “On one branch there shall be three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with a calyx and three petals … so for all six branches issuing from the lampstand.” — Exodus 25:33 This verse is from the description of the menorah, the seven-branched candelabra, that was to adorn the Continue Reading »
Parashat: Bo Torah Reading: Exodus 10:1–13:16 “This month shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you” — Exodus 12:2 The medieval commentator Rashi asked rhetorically why the Torah did not start with this verse, as this is the first commandment Continue Reading »
