JTS Torah Archive

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.

Aharei Mot

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they drew too close to the presence of the Lord.

Shelah Lekha

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, reconnoiter the region of Jericho.” So they set out, and they came to the house of a harlot named Rahab and lodged there.

Sukkot Day 1

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Lo, a day of the Lord is coming when your spoil shall be divided in your very midst!

Pesah Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

¹ At the king’s summons, all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem assembled before him.

Beshallah

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.”

Pekudei

Jan 1, 1980

⁵¹ When all the work that King Solomon had done in the House of the Lord was completed, Solomon brought in the sacred donations of his father David — the silver, the gold, and the vessels — and deposited them in the treasury of the House of the Lord.

Pesah Day 7 & 8

Jan 1, 1980

¹ David addressed the words of this song to the Lord, after the Lord had saved him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hands of Saul.

Lekh Lekha

Jan 1, 1980

²⁷ Why do you say, O Jacob,
Why declare, O Israel,
“My way is hid from the Lord,
My cause is ignored by my God”?

Hanukkah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ On the day that Moses finished setting up the Tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, as well as the altar and its utensils.

Vayeilekh

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel.

Behukkotai

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁹ O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
My refuge in a day of trouble,
To You nations shall come
From the ends of the earth and say:
Our fathers inherited utter delusions,
Things that are futile and worthless.

Mattot-Masei

Jan 1, 1980

³ If a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath imposing an obligation on himself, he shall not break his pledge; he must carry out all that has crossed his lips.

Shabbat Mahar Hodesh

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁸ Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow will be the new moon; and you will be missed when your seat remains vacant.

Mishpatim

Jan 1, 1980

⁸ The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zede- kiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim a release among them — ⁹

Beshallah

Jan 1, 1980

⁴ Deborah, wife of Lappidoth, was a prophetess; she led Israel at that time.

Toledot

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁹ This is the story of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac.

Metzora

Jan 1, 1980

³ There were four men, lepers, outside the gate. They said to one another, “Why should we sit here waiting for death?