JTS Torah Commentary

Toledot

Jan 1, 1980

¹ A pronouncement: The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.

Toledot

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁹ This is the story of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac.

Hayyei Sarah

Jan 1, 1980

1 King David was now old, advanced in years; and though they covered him with bedclothes, he never felt warm.

Naso

Jan 1, 1980

²¹ The Lord spoke to Moses: ²² Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral house and by their clans.

Mattot

Jan 1, 1980

³ If a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath imposing an obligation on himself, he shall not break his pledge; he must carry out all that has crossed his lips.

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.

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.

Bemidbar

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The number of the people of Israel shall be like that of the sands of the sea, which cannot be measured or counted; and instead of being told, “You are Not-My-People,” they shall be called Children-of-the-Living-God.

Behukkotai

Jan 1, 1980

³ If you follow My laws and faithfully observe My commandments, ⁴ I will grant your rains in their season, so that the earth shall yield its produce and the trees of the field their fruit.

Behukkotai

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁹ O Lord, my strength and my stronghold,
My refuge in a day of trouble,
To You nations shall come
From the ends of the earth and say:
Our fathers inherited utter delusions,
Things that are futile and worthless.

Behar

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: ² Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:

When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of the Lord.

Behar

Jan 1, 1980

⁶ Jeremiah said: The word of the Lord came to me: ⁷ Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, will come to you and say, “Buy my land in Anathoth, for you are next in succession to redeem it by purchase.”

Emor

Jan 1, 1980

1 The Lord said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:

None shall defile himself for any [dead] person among his kin, 2 except for the relatives that are closest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother; 3 also for a virgin sister, close to him because she has not married, for her he may defile himself.

Emor

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁵ But the levitical priests descended from Zadok, who maintained the service of My Sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from Me — they shall approach Me to minister to Me; they shall stand before Me to offer Me fat and blood — declares the Lord God.

Kedoshim

Jan 1, 1980

⁷ To Me, O Israelites, you are
Just like the Ethiopians

— declares the Lord —

True, I brought Israel up
From the land of Egypt,
But also the Philistines from Caphtor
And the Arameans from Kir.

Naso

Jan 1, 1980

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

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.”

Pinehas

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁰ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹ “Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites by displaying among them his passion for Me, so that I did not wipe out the Israelite people in My passion.

Aharei Mot

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.

Metzora

Jan 1, 1980

³ There were four men, lepers, outside the gate. They said to one another, “Why should we sit here waiting for death?