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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.
The Al ha-Nissim prayer is only recited on Sabbath (Adar 15), which is Purim itself. The weekly Torah portion (Tetzaveh or Ki Tissa in regular years, Tzav in leap years) is read as usual, while the Torah portion for Purim is read for maftir, and the haftarah is the same as read the previous Shabbat, Parshat Zachor.
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In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות , aliyot.In the Masoretic Text of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), Parashat Vayishlach has six "open portion" (פתוחה , petuchah) divisions (roughly equivalent to a paragraph, often abbreviated with the Hebrew letter פ ()).
Three Torah scrolls are used for the Sabbath morning Torah reading: one for Mishpatim or Terumah (Pekudei in leap years), another for the Rosh Chodesh reading, and a third for Parshat Shekalim. Purim falls on Friday, and the Purim seudah is held earlier in the day.
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 25 Tevet, 5785—January 25, 2025 "The Presence of the Lord appeared in the sight of the Israelites as a consuming fire on the top of the mountain."
The Weekly Torah portion in synagogues on Shabbat, Saturday, 25 Tevet, 5785—January 25, 2025 “If you see your fellow’s ass or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it; you must help him raise it.” (Deuteronomy 22:4.)