JTS Torah Commentary

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.

Shavuot Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

¹ A prayer of the prophet Habakkuk. In the mode of Shigionoth.

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. 

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.”

Pesah Day 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.

Shabbat Hagadol

Jan 1, 1980

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

Pesah Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

¹ At the king’s summons, all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem assembled before him.

Pesah Day 7

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.”

Pesah Day 7

Jan 1, 1980

¹ David addressed the words of this song to the Lord, after the Lord had saved him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hands of Saul.

Pesah Day 8

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁹ You shall consecrate to the Lord your God all male firstlings that are born in your herd and in your flock: you must not work your firstling ox or shear your firstling sheep.

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.