JTS Torah Commentary

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.

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.

Vezot Haberakhah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ attendant:

² “My servant Moses is dead. Prepare to cross the Jordan, together with all this people, into the land that I am giving to the Israelites.

Ki Tavo

Jan 1, 1980

¹ When you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it, ² you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God will choose to establish His name. 

Ki Tavo

Jan 1, 1980

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

Vezot Haberakhah

Jan 1, 1980

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

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.

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

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!

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.” 

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.

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”?

Lekh Lekha

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord said to Abram, Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

Noah

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.

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.

Bereishit

Jan 1, 1980

⁵ Thus said God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and what it brings forth,
Who gave breath to the people upon it
And life to those who walk thereon:

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.

Sukkot Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

² All the men of Israel gathered before King Solomon at the Feast, in the month of Ethanim — that is, the seventh month.

Shabbat Hol Hamoed Sukkot

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.’

Shabbat Hol Hamoed Sukkot

Jan 1, 1980

³⁷ Thus said the Lord God: Moreover, in this I will respond to the House of Israel and act for their sake: I will multiply their people like sheep.