Torah Cycle

Parashat Bechukosai

Parashat Bechukosai My Decrees Lev 26:3–27:34 “If you will follow My decrees and observe My commandments and perform them; then I will provide your rains in their time, and the land will give its produce and the tree of the field will give its fruit. Photo by Vishal Joshi Haftorah Bechukosai Jer 16:19–17:14 “Thus said […]

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Parashat Behar

Parashat Behar On the Mount Lev 25:1–26:2 “YHVH spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying: Speak to the Children of Israel and say to them: When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall observe a Sabbath rest for YHVH.” (Lev 25:1-2) Photo by Marek Piwnicki Haftorah Behar Jer 32:6–27 “Behold!

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Parashat Emor

Parashat Emor Say Lev 21:1–24:23 Photo by John Towner “After the sun has set he shall become purified; thereafter he may eat from the holies, for it is his food.” (Lev 22:7) Haftorah Emor Eze 44:15–31 “Be not afraid and be not terrified! Did I not make you hear of yore and tell you; and

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Parashat Kedoshim

Parashat Kedoshim Holy Ones Lev 19:1–20:27 “You shall not hate your brother in your heart; you shall reprove your fellow and do not bear a sing because of him.” (Lev 19:17) Photo by Robert Collins Haftorah Kedoshim Amos 9:7–15 Eze 20:2–20 Photo by Serge Krasnov “But My eye pitied them, rather than destroying them, so

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Parashat Metzora

Parashat Metzora Cleansing the Leper Lev 14:1–15:33 “This shall be the law of the metzora on the day of his purification: He shall be brought to the Kohen. The Kohen shall go forth to the outside of the camp; the Kohen shall look, and behold! — the tzaraas affliction had been healed from the metzora.”

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Parashat Tazria

Parashat Tazria She Conceives Lev 12:1–13:59 “…When a woman conceives and gives birth to a male, she shall be contaminated for a seven-day period, as during the days of her separation infirmity shall she be contaminated. On the eighth day, the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.  Verse 4; If she gives birth to

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Parashat Shemini

Parashat Shemini Eighth Lev 9:1–11:47 “It was on the eighth day, Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel” (Lev 9:1) Haftorah Shemini 2 Sam 6:1–7:17 “..that the king said to Nathan the prophet, ‘See now, I am living in a house of cedar while the Ark of God dwells within the

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Pesach Shabbat

Pesach Shabbat Passover Sabbath Exo 33:12–34:26 Num 28:16–31 “In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, shall be a pesach-offering to YHVH. And on the fifteenth day of this month is a festival; for a seven-day period matzos shall be eaten.” (Num 28:16-17) Photo by “Looking for that Blessed Hope” Haftorah Pesach

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Yom Pesach

Yom Pesach Passover Day Leviticus 23:4–8 “In the first month on the fourteenth of the month in the afternoon is the time of the peash-offering to YHVH” (Lev 23:5) Photo by Tyler Lastovich Brit Hadashah PesachJohn 18:1–19:42 Photo by Tingey Law Firm “Then Pilate said to them, ‘You take Him and judge Him, according to

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