JTS Torah Archive

Hanukkah (Second Shabbat)

Jan 1, 1980

⁴⁰ Hiram also made the lavers, the scrapers, and the sprinkling bowls.

Ki Tetzei

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Shout, O barren one,
You who bore no child!
Shout aloud for joy,
You who did not travail!
For the children of the wife forlorn
Shall outnumber those of the espoused

— said the Lord. —

Miketz

Jan 1, 1980

¹ After two years’ time, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, 

Behar

Jan 1, 1980

⁶ Jeremiah said: The word of the Lord came to me: ⁷ Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, will come to you and say, “Buy my land in Anathoth, for you are next in succession to redeem it by purchase.”

Balak

Jan 1, 1980

² Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

Hol Hamoed Pesah

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁶ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, there shall be a passover sacrifice to the Lord, ¹⁷ and on the fifteenth day of that month a festival.

Hayyei Sarah

Jan 1, 1980

1 King David was now old, advanced in years; and though they covered him with bedclothes, he never felt warm.

Tazria

Jan 1, 1980

⁴² A man came from Baal-shalishah and he brought the man of God some bread of the first reaping — twenty loaves of barley bread, and some fresh grain in his sack. And [Elisha] said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.”

Re’eh

Jan 1, 1980

²⁶ See, this day I set before you blessing and curse: ²⁷ blessing, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin upon you this day; ²⁸ and curse, if you do not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn away from the path that I enjoin upon you this day and follow other gods, whom you have not experienced.

Terumah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ² Tell the Israelite people to bring Me gifts; you shall accept gifts for Me from every person whose heart so moves him.

Rosh Hashanah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord took note of Sarah as He had promised, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken.

Pesah Day 8

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁹ You shall consecrate to the Lord your God all male firstlings that are born in your herd and in your flock: you must not work your firstling ox or shear your firstling sheep.

Shemot

Jan 1, 1980

¹ These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each coming with his household:

Vayak-hel

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Moses then convoked the whole Israelite community and said to them:

These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do:

Noah

Jan 1, 1980

⁹ This is the line of Noah. — Noah was a righteous man; he was blameless in his age; Noah walked with God.

Shabbat Parah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: 2 This is the ritual law that the Lord has commanded:

Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid

Vayiggash

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁵ The word of the LORD came to me: ¹⁶ And you, O mortal, take a stick and write on it, “Of Judah and the Israelites associated with him”; and take another stick and write on it, “Of Joseph — the stick of Ephraim — and all the House of Israel associated with him.”

Vayeshev

Jan 1, 1980

For three transgressions of Israel,
For four, I will not revoke it:
Because they have sold for silver
Those whose cause was just,
And the needy for a pair of sandals.

Emor

Jan 1, 1980

1 The Lord said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:

None shall defile himself for any [dead] person among his kin, 2 except for the relatives that are closest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother; 3 also for a virgin sister, close to him because she has not married, for her he may defile himself.

Balak

Jan 1, 1980

⁶ The remnant of Jacob shall be,
In the midst of the many peoples,
Like dew from the Lord,
Like droplets on grass–
Which do not look to any man
Nor place their hope in mortals.