Rabbi Shalom Morris
Shemini Atzeret-Simchat Torah
“And you shall rejoice [vesmachta] in your festival” Deuteronomy 16:14
Ki Tavo
“The Lord will send you back to Egypt in galleys, by a route which I told you, you should not see again” Deuteronomy 28:68
Va'etchanan
“The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day” Deuteronomy 5:3
Korach
“All the sacred gifts that the Israelites set aside for the Lord I give to you… It shall be an everlasting covenant of salt before the Lord for you and for your offspring as well” Numbers 18:19
Bemidbar
“Take a census of the whole Israelite community by the clans of its ancestral houses, listing the names, every male, head by head” Numbers 1:2
Shemini
“And fire came forth from the Lord and consumed them… And Aaron was silent” Leviticus 10:2
Ki Tissa
"If you forgive their sin is it well, but if not, erase me from the book that You have written” Exodus 32:32
Beshallach
“And Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness and found no water” Exodus 15:22
Vayigash
“And Judah he had sent before him to show him the way to Goshen” Genesis 46:28
Toldot
“And the children struggled within her” Genesis 25:22
Bereshit
“And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years; and he died” Genesis 5:27
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