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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 »
Parashat: Vayigash Torah Reading: Genesis 44:18–47:27 “’For how can I [Judah] go home to my father without the lad [Benjamin], and thus see the harm my father will suffer?’” — Genesis 44:34 These are the final words of Judah’s soliloquy to the man he thought was only Pharoah’s Number 2, rather than his brother, Joseph. Continue Reading »
Parashat: Lech-Lecha Torah Reading: Genesis 12:1–17:27 “God said to Abram, ‘Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.’” — Genesis 12:1 Abram, called by God to depart from his home in Haran, begins his journey to the land of Canaan with these words. There Continue Reading »
Parashat: Ha’azinu Torah Reading: Deuteronomy 32:1–32:52 “Give ear, O heavens, let me speak; Let the earth hear the words I utter” — Deuteronomy 32:1 Moses’s last words to the Israelites come in the form of a poem exhorting them to follow the commandments, reminding them of their humble origins, and prophesying the future fate of Continue Reading »
Parashat: Ki Teitzei Torah Reading: Deuteronomy 21:10–25:19 “If you see your fellow Israelite’s donkey or ox fallen in the road, do not ignore it; you must raise it together,” — Deuteronomy 22:4 This commandment, seemingly quite specific to a particular situation, is a much larger commandment that still applies in the modern day. No, Continue Reading »
