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Each Torah portion consists of two to six chapters to be read during the week. There are 54 weekly portions or parashot.Torah reading mostly follows an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the divisions corresponding to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years.
4:1 {P} = The first full verse of a psalm is a title followed by an open parashah break, such as in Psalm 4. The text of the body of the psalm starts at the beginning of the next line. 11:1a {P} = The beginning of the first verse of a psalm is a title followed by an open parashah break in the middle of that verse, such as in Psalm 11. The text ...
The Tabernacle (2009 SketchUp model by Gabriel Fink). Terumah, Terumoh, Terimuh, or Trumah (תְּרוּמָה —Hebrew for "gift" or "offering," the twelfth word and first distinctive word in the parashah) is the nineteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Exodus.
The Bible is filled with wisdom, instruction and encouragement for readers of all ages. However, as a parent (or mentor), it can be understandably intimidating to introduce various scriptures to ...
Chapter and verse divisions did not appear in the original texts of Jewish or Christian bibles; such divisions form part of the paratext of the Bible. Since the early 13th century, most copies and editions of the Bible have presented all but the shortest of the scriptural books with divisions into chapters, generally a page or so in length ...
The mitzvah of Torah reading was based on the Biblical commandment of Hakhel (Deuteronomy 31:10–13), by which once every 7 years the entire people was to be gathered, "men, women and children," [9] and hear much of Deuteronomy, the final volume of the Pentateuch, read to them (see the closing chapters of the Talmudic tractate Sotah) by the King.
In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings (עליות , aliyot).In the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Parashat Vayeira has four "open portion" (פתוחה , petuchah) divisions (roughly equivalent to paragraphs, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter פ ()).
Sefaria is an online open source, [1] free content, digital library of Jewish texts. It was founded in 2011 by former Google project manager Brett Lockspeiser and journalist-author Joshua Foer . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Promoted as a "living library of Jewish texts", Sefaria relies partially upon volunteers to add texts and translations.