JTS Torah Archive

Shemini

Jan 1, 1980

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

Eikev

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁴ Zion says,
“The Lord has forsaken me,
My Lord has forgotten me.”

Tisha Be’av

Jan 1, 1980

¹³I will make an end of them
—declares the Lord:
No grapes left on the vine,
No figs on the fig tree,
The leaves all withered;
Whatever I have given them is gone.

Sukkot Day 1 & 2

Jan 1, 1980

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

Shavuot Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

²² You shall set aside every year a tenth part of all the yield of your sowing that is brought from the field.

Shabbat Hol Hamoed Pesah

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.

Vayak-hel-Pekudei

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: ² On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

Shabbat Hahodesh

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: ² This month shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you.

Mishpatim

Jan 1, 1980

¹ These are the rules that you shall set before them:

Vayishlah

Jan 1, 1980

⁴ Jacob sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,

Naso

Jan 1, 1980

² There was a certain man from Zorah, of the stock of Dan, whose name was Manoah.

Hukkat

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Jephthah the Gileadite was an able warrior, who was the son of a prostitute. Jephthah’s father was Gilead; ² but Gilead also had sons by his wife, and when the wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out.

Masei

Jan 1, 1980

⁴ Hear the word of the Lord, O House of Jacob,
Every clan of the House of Israel!

Vezot Haberakhah

Jan 1, 1980

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

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.’

Pesah Day 1

Jan 1, 1980

²¹ Moses then summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, pick out lambs for your families, and slaughter the passover offering. 

Bo

Jan 1, 1980

¹³ The word which the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about the coming of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon to attack the land of Egypt:

Tzav

Jan 1, 1980

²¹ Thus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat!

Va’et-hannan

Jan 1, 1980

²³ I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying, ²⁴ “O Lord God, You who let Your servant see the first works of Your greatness and Your mighty hand, You whose powerful deeds no god in heaven or on earth can equal!

Ki Tissa

Jan 1, 1980

¹¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ¹² When you take a census of the Israelite people according to their enrollment, each shall pay the Lord a ransom for himself on being enrolled, that no plague may come upon them through their being enrolled.