JTS Torah Archive

Monday Handout

Jan 1, 1980

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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.” 

Vayetzei

Jan 1, 1980

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

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.”

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?

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.

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.

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

Simhat Torah

Jan 1, 1980

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

Shabbat Hagadol

Jan 1, 1980

¹ On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel.

Vayikra

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying:

Pesah Day 7 & 8

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁷ Now when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although it was nearer; for God said, “The people may have a change of heart when they see war, and return to Egypt.”

Terumah

Jan 1, 1980

²⁶ The Lord had given Solomon wisdom, as He had promised him. There was friendship between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.

Vayera

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord appeared to him by the terebinths of Mamre; he was sitting at the entrance of the tent as the day grew hot.

Shabbat Zakhor

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁷ Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt — 18 how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear

Nitzavim

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁰ I greatly rejoice in the Lord,
My whole being exults in my God.

Behukkotai

Jan 1, 1980

³ If you follow My laws and faithfully observe My commandments, ⁴ I will grant your rains in their season, so that the earth shall yield its produce and the trees of the field their fruit.

Hukkat-Balak

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.

Rosh Hashanah Day 1

Jan 1, 1980

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

Toledot

Jan 1, 1980

¹ A pronouncement: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.