JTS Torah Archive

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.

Shabbat Shekalim

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.

Shabbat Shuvah

Jan 1, 1980

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

Pinehas

Jan 1, 1980

⁴⁶ The hand of the Lord had come upon Elijah. He tied up his skirts and ran in front of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.

Tazria-Metzora

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ² Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a woman at childbirth bears a male, she shall be unclean seven days; she shall be unclean as at the time of her menstrual infirmity.

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Jan 1, 1980

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Vayetzei

Jan 1, 1980

¹³ Then Jacob had to flee to the land of Aram;

There Israel served for a wife,
For a wife he had to guard [sheep].

Beha’alotekha

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ² Speak to Aaron and say to him, “When you mount the lamps, let the seven lamps give light at the front of the lampstand.”

Korah

Jan 1, 1980

1 Now Korah, son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, betook himself, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth — descendants of Reuben — 2 to rise up against Moses, together with two hundred and fifty Israelites, chieftains of the community, chosen in the assembly, men of repute.

Mattot

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests at Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.

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.

Pesah Day 1

Jan 1, 1980

² At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and proceed with a second circumcision of the Israelites.”

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, 

Tzav

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Va’et-hannan

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Comfort, oh comfort My people,
Says your God.

Pesah Day 1 & 2

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.

Vayiggash

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁸ Then Judah went up to him and said, “Please, my lord, let Your servant appeal to my lord, and do not be impatient with your servant, You who are the equal of Pharaoh. 

Bemidbar

Jan 1, 1980

¹ On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying:

² Take a census of the whole Israelite community by the clans of its ancestral houses, listing the names, every male, head by head.

Aharei Mot-Kedoshim

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. ² The Lord said to Moses:
Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come at will into the Shrine behind the curtain, in front of the cover that is upon the ark, lest he die; for I appear in the cloud over the cover.