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Shemot, Shemoth, or Shemos (Hebrew: שְׁמוֹת, 'names'; second and incipit word of the parashah) is the thirteenth weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the first in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 1:1–6:1.
Hebrew–English Text Hear the parshah chanted Commentary from the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University (Conservative) Commentary from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (Conservative)
Printable version; In other projects ... Shemot (Hebrew, 'names') may refer to: Book of Exodus, or Shemot; ... Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
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 Torah (/ ˈ t ɔːr ə / or / ˈ t oʊ r ə /; [1] Biblical Hebrew: תּוֹרָה Tōrā, "Instruction", "Teaching" or "Law") is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. [2] The Torah is also known as the Pentateuch (/ ˈ p ɛ n t ə tj uː k /) or ...
This version translated gender idiomatically, rather than literally, and notably referred to God in a gender-neutral manner. [24] The addition of this translation received some criticism from some Orthodox Jewish users, with Orthodox rabbis calling to stop using Sefaria completely, although there is continued availability of translations from ...
However, the Vilna Gaon instituted that haftarot be read only from scrolls which contained the full text of a Prophetic Book (e.g., full text of Joshua, or full text of Judges, or full text of Isaiah), just as a Torah scroll contains the full text of the Pentateuch.