Sukkot Day 1 & 2

Sukkot Day 1 & 2

Jan 1, 1980

26 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 27 When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall stay seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the Lord.

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Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur

Jan 1, 1980

14 [The Lord] says:
Build up, build up a highway!
Clear the road!
Remove all obstacles
From the road of My people!

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Pesah Day 2

Pesah Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

26 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 27 When an ox or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall stay seven days with its mother, and from the eighth day on it shall be acceptable as an offering by fire to the Lord.

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Va’era

Va’era

Jan 1, 1980

25 Thus said the Lord God: When I have gathered the House of Israel from the peoples among which they have been dispersed, and have shown Myself holy through them in the sight of the nations, they shall settle on their own soil, which I gave to My servant Jacob,

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Vayikra

Vayikra

Jan 1, 1980

21 The people I formed for Myself
That they might declare my praise.

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Pesah Day 1 & 2

Pesah Day 1 & 2

Jan 1, 1980

This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh Day 1 Joshua 5:2 – 15; 6:1,27 Chapter 5 2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and proceed with a second circumcision of the Israelites.” 3 So Joshua had flint knives made, and the Israelites were circumcised at Gibeath-haaraloth. 4 This is the reason why Joshua […]

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Monday Handout

Monday Handout

Jan 1, 1980

Download the handout for Monday’s lecture.

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Vayera

Vayera

Jan 1, 1980

1 A certain woman, the wife of one of the disciples of the prophets, cried out to Elisha: “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know how your servant revered the Lord. And now a creditor is coming to seize my two children as slaves.” 

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Vayeilekh

Vayeilekh

Jan 1, 1980

6 Seek the Lord while He can be found,
Call to Him while He is near.

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Miketz

Miketz

Jan 1, 1980

15 Then Solomon awoke: it was a dream! He went to Jerusalem, stood before the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, and sacrificed burnt offerings and presented offerings of well-being; and he made a banquet for all his courtiers.

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Bemidbar

Bemidbar

Jan 1, 1980

1 The number of the people of Israel shall be like that of the sands of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted; and instead of being told, “You are Not-My-People,” they shall be called Children-of-the-Living-God.

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Behar-Behukkotai

Behar-Behukkotai

Jan 1, 1980

1 The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: 2 Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:

When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of the Lord.

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Tisha Be’av

Tisha Be’av

Jan 1, 1980

25 When you have begotten children and children’s children and are long established in the land, should you act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness, causing the Lord your God displeasure and vexation, 26 I call heaven and earth this day to witness against you that you shall soon perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess; you shall not long endure in it, but shall be utterly wiped out. 27 The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a scant few of you shall be left among the nations to which the Lord will drive you. 28 There you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, that cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

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Rosh Hashanah Day 2

Rosh Hashanah Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

1 Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test. He said to him, “Abraham,” and he answered, “Here I am.” 

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Vayetzei

Vayetzei

Jan 1, 1980

10 Jacob left Beer-sheba, and set out for Haran.

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Shelah Lekha

Shelah Lekha

Jan 1, 1980

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Send men to scout the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelite people; send one man from each of their ancestral tribes, each one a chieftain among them.”

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Shofetim

Shofetim

Jan 1, 1980

12 I, I am He who comforts you!
What ails you that you fear
Man who must die,
Mortals who fare like grass?

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Kedoshim

Kedoshim

Jan 1, 1980

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 2 Speak to the whole Israelite community and say to them:

You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

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Sukkot

Sukkot

Jan 1, 1980

12 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you shall observe a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations

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Simhat Torah

Simhat Torah

Jan 1, 1980

1 This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, bade the Israelites farewell before he died.

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