JTS Torah Archive

Va’era

Jan 1, 1980

² God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.

Shemini

Jan 1, 1980

¹ David again assembled all the picked men of Israel, thirty thousand strong. 

Eikev

Jan 1, 1980

¹² And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, the Lord your God will maintain faithfully for you the covenant that He made on oath with your fathers: ¹³ He will favor you and bless you and multiply you; He will bless the issue of your womb and the produce of your soil, your new grain and wine and oil, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock, in the land that He swore to your fathers to assign to you.

Tetzavveh

Jan 1, 1980

²⁰ You shall further instruct the Israelites to bring you clear oil of beaten olives for lighting, for kindling lamps regularly.

Rosh Hashanah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ There was a man from Ramathaim of the Zuphites, in the hill country of Ephraim, whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham son of Elihu son of Tohu son of Zuph, an Ephraimite. 

Shabbat Hol Hamoed Pesah

Jan 1, 1980

¹² Moses said to the Lord, “See, You say to me, ‘Lead this people forward,’ but You have not made known to me whom You will send with me. Further, You have said, ‘I have singled you out by name, and you have, indeed, gained My favor.’

Vayehi

Jan 1, 1980

²⁸ Jacob lived seventeen years in the land of Egypt, so that the span of Jacob’s life came to one hundred and forty-seven years.

Mattot

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.

Tetzavveh

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁰ [Now] you, O mortal, describe the Temple to the House of Israel, and let them measure its design. 

Yom Kippur

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.

Rosh Hashanah Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

² Thus said the Lord:
The people escaped from the sword,
Found favor in the wilderness;
When Israel was marching homeward

Yitro

Jan 1, 1980

¹ In the year that King Uzziah died, I beheld my Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; and the skirts of His robe filled the Temple.

Vayishlah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The prophecy of Obadiah.

We have received tidings from the Lord,
And an envoy has been sent out among the nations:
“Up! Let us rise up against her for battle.”

Thus said my Lord God concerning Edom:

Kedoshim

Jan 1, 1980

⁷ To Me, O Israelites, you are
Just like the Ethiopians

— declares the Lord —

True, I brought Israel up
From the land of Egypt,
But also the Philistines from Caphtor
And the Arameans from Kir.

Hukkat

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.

Masei

Jan 1, 1980

¹ These were the marches of the Israelites who started out from the land of Egypt, troop by troop, in the charge of Moses and Aaron. 

Ki Tavo

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Arise, shine, for your light has dawned;
The Presence of the Lord has shone upon you!

Shavuot Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

¹ A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk. In the mode of Shigionoth.

Yitro

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Jethro priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the Lord had brought Israel out from Egypt. 

Shemini

Jan 1, 1980

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