Weekly Sidra: Vayishlach (and he sent) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 32:4-36:43 Haftorah:Ovadia / Obadiah 1:1-21 Vayishlach or Vayishlah (וישלח — Hebrew for "he sent,” the first word of the parshah) is the eighth weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. The title comes from the first verse of the reading, which says, “And Yakov went out from Beersheba” It constitutes Genesis 32:4–36:43. Jews in the Diaspora read it the eighth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in late November or December. In the parshah, Yakov is on his way home to his father Yitzchak’s house after 22 years of being away, Yakov reconciles with Esau after wrestling with an angel, the prince Shechem rapes Dinah and her brothers sack the city of Shechem in revenge, and in the family’s subsequent flight Rachel gives birth to Benjamin and dies in childbirth. While he was [...]
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Weekly Sidra: Vayetze (and he left) Torah Portion: Bereshit / Genesis 28:10-32:3 Haftorah: Hosea / Hosea 11:7-12:12 Vayetze, Vayeitzei, or Vayetzei (וַיֵּצֵא — Hebrew for “and he left,” the first word in the parshah) is the seventh weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish ...
Parsha Bereshit (Genesis 1:1-6:8): “When God began to create heaven and earth.” (Genesis 1:1) Many English translations of the Hebrew Bible (Jewish Scriptures) stated that “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth”, but the Hebrew Jewish Scritures tells a different story. In Hebrew, the first pasuk / verse says ...
Eikev, Ekev, Ekeb, or Eqeb (עקב — Hebrew for “if [you follow],” the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 46th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the book of Deuteronomy. It comprises Deuteronomy 7:12–11:25. Jews in the D ...
Va’etchanan or Va’eschanan (ואתחנן — Hebrew for “and I pleaded,” the first word in the parshah) is the 45th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the book of Deuteronomy. The forty-fifth reading from the Torah and the second read ...
Weekly Sidra: Beha’alotcha (when you step up) Torah Portion: Bamidbar/ Numbers 8:1-12:16 Haftorah: Zecharyah / Zechariah 2:14-4:7 The third reading from the book of Numbers and the thirty-sixth reading from the Torah is called Beha’alot’cha (בהעלותך), a word that literally m ...
In leap years (for example, 2011, 2014, and 2016), parshah Acharei is read separately on the 29th Sabbath after Simchat Torah. In common years (for example, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2018), parshah Acharei is combined with the next parshah, Kedoshim, to help achieve the needed number of weekly readings. This year is not a leap year, therefo ...
Weekly Sidra: Vayakhel (and he assembled) Torah Portion: Shemot / Exodus 35:1–38:20 Haftorah: Melechim alef / 1 Kings 7:13–26 Vayakhel, Wayyaqhel, VaYakhel, Va-Yakhel, Vayak’hel, Vayak’heil, or Vayaqhel (וַיַּקְהֵל – Hebrew for "and he asse ...
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