JTS Torah Commentary

Pesah Day 8

Jan 1, 1980

³² This same day at Nob
He shall stand and wave his hand.

O Mount of Fair Zion!
O hill of Jerusalem!

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.’

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.

Shabbat Shuvah

Jan 1, 1980

² Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
For you have fallen because of your sin.

Vayeilekh

Jan 1, 1980

⁶ Seek the Lord while He can be found,
Call to Him while He is near.

Nitzavim

Jan 1, 1980

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

Vayeilekh

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel.

Nitzavim

Jan 1, 1980

⁹ You stand this day, all of you, before the Lord your God — your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel, ¹⁰ your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer — ¹¹ to enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions; ¹² to the end that He may establish you this day as His people and be your God, as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Ki Tetzei

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. —

Ki Tetzei

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁰ When you take the field against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive, ¹¹ and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her to wife, ¹² you shall bring her into your house, and she shall trim her hair, pare her nails, ¹³ and discard her captive’s garb.

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.

Mishpatim

Jan 1, 1980

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

Hayyei Sarah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Sarah’s lifetime-the span of Sarah’s life-came to one hundred and twenty-seven years. 

Beshallah

Jan 1, 1980

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

Va’era

Jan 1, 1980

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

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. 

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:

Bo

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order that I may display these My signs among them, 

Va’era

Jan 1, 1980

²⁵ Thus said the Lord God: When I have gathered the House of Israel from the peoples among which they have been dispersed, and have shown Myself holy through them in the sight of the nations, they shall settle on their own soil, which I gave to My servant Jacob,

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.”