Parashah of the week: Naso
“May the Eternal raise His face to you, and give you peace” Numbers 6:27
Parashah of the week: Bemidbar
“And the number of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which shall neither be measured nor counted” Hosea 2:1
Parashah of the week: Bechukkotai
“I will walk among you, and will be your God and you will be My people” Leviticus 26:12
Parashah of the week: Behar
“My Sabbaths shall you observe and My Sanctuary shall you revere, I am the Lord” Leviticus 26:2
Parashah of the week: Emor
“Command the Israelite people to bring you clear oil of beaten olives for lighting, for kindling lamps regularly” Leviticus 24:2
Parashah of the week: Kedoshim
“Do not go about as a tale-bearer among your people. Do not stand on the blood of your fellow: I am the Eternal” Leviticus 19.16
Parashah of the week: Acharei Mot
“God spoke to Moses after the death of Aaron’s two children” Leviticus 16:1
The haftarah for Shabbat: Eighth day Pesach
“The wolf shall live with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them” Isaiah 11:6
The parashah for Shabbat: First Day Pesach
“The Israelites had done Moses’s bidding and borrowed from the Egyptians objects of silver and gold, and clothing. And the Lord had disposed the Egyptians favourably toward the people... thus they stripped the Egyptians" Exodus 12:35-36
Parashah of the week: Metzora
“Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a malignant tzara’at in the house: it is unclean” Leviticus 14:44
Parashah of the week: Tazria
“Speak to the Israelite people thus: when a woman at childbirth brings forth seed and bears a male, she shall be impure seven days; she shall be impure as at the time of her condition of menstrual separation” Leviticus 12:1-2
Parashah of the week: Shemini
“This is the law of the Torah: if a man dies in a tent, anyone entering the tent…shall be unclean” Numbers 19:14
Parashah of the week: Tzav
“A perpetual fire shall be kept going on the altar, not to go out” Leviticus 6:6
Parashah of the week: Vayikra
“When a person presents an offering of meal to God, the offering shall be of choice flour, the offerer shall pour oil upon it, lay frankincense on it” Leviticus 2:1
Parashah of the week: Pekudei
“And when Moses saw that they had performed all the tasks — as the Lord had commanded, so they had done —Moses blessed them” Exodus 39:43
Parashah of the week: Vayakhel
“Moses communed all the congregation of the people of Israel and said to them, ‘these are the things that the Eternal has commanded you to do’” Exodus 35:1
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