Bechukotai
Torah Reading: Leviticus 26:3–27:34
Bechukotai | בחקותי | In my statutes
Torah Reading: Leviticus 26:3–27:34
This Torah portion addresses blessings for obeying the Torah, curses for disobeying it, and vows.
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Behar
Torah Reading: Leviticus 25:1–26:2
Behar | בהר | On the mountain
Torah Reading: Leviticus 25:1–26:2
This Torah portion gives instructions concerning the Shemitah and Yovel (the Sabbatical and Jubilee years), limits on debt servitude, and concludes with a reminder to keep God’s Sabbaths and reverence his sanctuary.
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Emor
Torah Reading: Leviticus 21:1–24:23
Emor | אמור | Say
Torah Reading: Leviticus 21:1–24:23
This Torah portion gives purity instructions for priests, lists each of God’s holy days that He commanded his people to observe, and then describes the preparations for the lamps and bread in the Tabernacle. The parashah concludes with a story of a blasphemer and his punishment.
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Kedoshim
Torah Reading: Leviticus 19:1–20:27
Kedoshim | קדושים | Holy ones
Torah Reading: Leviticus 19:1–20:27
This Torah portion gives instructions for holiness and ethical behavior. It also lists the penalties for various transgressions of God’s laws governing sexual relationships that were listed in the previous parashah.
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Acharei Mot
Torah Reading: Leviticus 16:1–18:30
Acharei Mot | אחרי מות | After the death
Torah Reading: Leviticus 16:1–18:30
This Torah portion gives instructions for Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement. It also discusses general rules with regard to the sanctuary, laws against eating blood, as well as laws prohibiting certain sexual relationships.
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Metzora
Torah Reading: Leviticus 14:1-15:33
Metzora | מצורע | Leper
Torah Reading: Leviticus 14:1-15:33
This Torah portion gives purification laws for cleansing a leper and a leprous home as well as laws governing various ritual impurities from bodily emissions.
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Tazria
Torah Reading: Leviticus 12:1-13:59
Tazria | תזריע | She will conceive
Torah Reading: Leviticus 12:1-13:59
This Torah portion gives laws for purification after childbirth as well as laws governing how to diagnose and quarantine lepers.
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Shemini
Torah Reading: Leviticus 9:1 - 11:47
Shemini | שמיני | Eighth
Torah Reading: Leviticus 9:1 - 11:47
This Torah Portion tells of the inauguration of Aaron’s priesthood, the deaths of Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu, and lists God’s dietary instructions to His people.
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Noach
Torah Reading: Genesis 6:9-11:32
Noach | נח | Noah
Torah Reading: Genesis 6:9-11:32
This Torah Portion tells the story of how mankind become so wicked that God destroyed them with a flood. However, He spared Noah and his family by commanding Noah to build an Ark to survive the flood (Genesis 6-8). It also speaks of God’s covenant with Noah and then lists all the nations that descended from Noah (Genesis 9-10). Then we learn about the story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11).
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B'reisheet
Torah Reading: Genesis 1:1-6:8
B’reisheet | בראשית | In the beginning
Torah Reading: Genesis 1:1-6:8
This Torah Portion tells the story of God creating the universe and people (Genesis 1-2). It also speaks of the first sin on the part of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3). Then we learn about one of Adam and Eve’s sons, Cain, who becomes the first murderer by killing his brother Abel (Genesis 4). Then there’s an account of Adam’s descendants all of the way to Noah who is said to find favor in God’s eyes (Genesis 5-6:8).
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