JTS Torah Commentary

Shemini Atzeret

Jan 1, 1980

⁵⁴ When Solomon finished offering to the Lord all this prayer and supplication, he rose from where he had been kneeling, in front of the altar of the Lord, his hands spread out toward heaven.

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 Zakhor

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁷ Remember what Amalek did to you on your journey, after you left Egypt — 18 how, undeterred by fear of God, he surprised you on the march, when you were famished and weary, and cut down all the stragglers in your rear

Hanukkah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ On the day that Moses finished setting up the Tabernacle, he anointed and consecrated it and all its furnishings, as well as the altar and its utensils.

Hanukkah (First Shabbat)

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁴ Shout for joy, Fair Zion! For lo, I come; and I will dwell in your midst — declares the LORD.

Hanukkah (Second Shabbat)

Jan 1, 1980

⁴⁰ Hiram also made the lavers, the scrapers, and the sprinkling bowls.

Shabbat Parah

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

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.

Shabbat Mahar Hodesh

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁸ Jonathan said to him, “Tomorrow will be the new moon; and you will be missed when your seat remains vacant.

Bereishit

Jan 1, 1980

¹ When God began to create heaven and earth — ² the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water — ³ God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Vayiggash

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁵ The word of the LORD came to me: ¹⁶ And you, O mortal, take a stick and write on it, “Of Judah and the Israelites associated with him”; and take another stick and write on it, “Of Joseph — the stick of Ephraim — and all the House of Israel associated with him.”

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

Rosh Hashanah Day 1

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.

Rosh Hashanah Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test. He said to him, “Abraham,” and he answered, “Here I am.” 

Rosh Hashanah Day 1

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord took note of Sarah as He had promised, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had spoken. 

Mishpatim

Jan 1, 1980

⁸ The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zede- kiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim a release among them — ⁹

Shavuot Day 1

Jan 1, 1980

¹ On the third new moon after the Israelites had gone forth from the land of Egypt, on that very day, they entered the wilderness of Sinai.

Hol Hamoed Pesah

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁶ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, there shall be a passover sacrifice to the Lord, ¹⁷ and on the fifteenth day of that month a festival.

Shabbat Rosh Hodesh

Jan 1, 1980

⁹ On the sabbath day: two yearling lambs without blemish, together with two-tenths of a measure of choice flour with oil mixed in as a meal offering, and with the proper libation — ¹⁰ a burnt offering for every sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its libation.

Shavuot Day 1

Jan 1, 1980

¹ In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, when I was in the community of exiles by the Chebar Canal, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.