Parashat Shavuot

Parashat Shavuot Pentecost Exo 19:1–20:26 Lev 23:15–21 Deut 14:22–16:17 “You shall count for yourselves — from the morrow of the rest day, from the day when you bring the Omer of the waving — seven weeks, they shall be complete. Until the morrow of the seventh week you shall count, fifty days and you shall […]

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Parashat Nasso

Parashat Nasso Elevate Num 4:21–7:89 “May YHVH bless you and safeguard you. May YHVH illuminate His countenance for you and be gracious to you. May YHVH lift His countenance to you and establish peace for you. Let them place My Name upon the Children of Israel and I shall bless them” (Num 6:24-27) Photo by

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Parashat Bamidbar

Parashat Bamidbar In the Wilderness Num 1:1–4:20 “YHVH spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year after their exodus from the land of Egypt, saying:..” (Num 1:1) Photo by Tyler Lastovich Haftorah Bamidbar Hos 1:10–2:22 “Yet the number of

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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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