Parashah of the week: Ki Tavo
“And you shall call out and declare before Hashem your God: ‘An Aramean [Laban] attempted to destroy my ancestor [Jacob], and he descended to Egypt’” Deuteronomy 26:5
Parashah of the week: Ki Tetzei
“When a man has taken a bride, he shall not go out with the army or be assigned to it for any purpose; he shall be exempt one year for the sake of his household, to give happiness to the woman he has married” Deuteronomy 24:5
Parashah of the week: Shoftim
“And you should prepare the way, divide into three parts…and it shall be for murderers to flee” Deuteronomy 19:3
Parashah of the week: Re'eh
Both are on the other side of the Jordan, beyond the west road that is in the land of the Canaanites who dwell in the Arabah — near Gilgal, by the terebinths of Moreh” Deuteronomy 11:30
Parashah of the week: Ekev
“Therefore impress these My words upon your very heart: bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead” Deuteronomy 11:18
Parashah of the week: Va`etchanan
“But Hashem grew angry with me… and did not heed me” Deuteronomy 3:26
Parashah of the week: Devarim
“You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike. Fear no man, for judgment is God’s. And any matter that is too difficult for you, you shall bring to me and I will hear it” Deuteronomy 1:17
Parashah of the week: Mattot-Massei
These are the decrees that God commanded Moses between a man and wife, a father and daughter” Numbers 30:7
Parashah of the week: Pinchas
“Let the Lord, source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone over the community” Numbers 27:16
Parashah of the week: Chukkat-Balak
How fair are your tents, O Jacob/ your dwellings, O Israel! Numbers 24:5
Parashah of the Week: Korach
"He should remove…the fire pans brought by those who sinned against their own souls, and hammer the pans into a cover for the altar" Numbers 17:2-3
Parashah of the week: Shelach Lecha
“So the community leadership took him outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had commanded Moses” Numbers 15:6
Parashah of the week: Beha'alotecha
“And the people who were impure and unable to offer the Pesach offering that day approached Moses” Numbers 9:6
Parashah of the week: Naso
“But to the Kohathites he did not give any; since theirs was the service of the [most] sacred objects, they carried it by shoulder” Numbers 7:9
The Torah reading for second day of Shavuot
“If [your servant] says to you, ‘I shall not leave you, for I love you and your home’ for it is good by him” Deuteronomy 15:16
Parashah of the week: Bemidbar
“This is the service of the members of the Kehat family in the Tent of Meeting... they shall first lower the screening curtain and cover the Ark of the Testimony with it” Numbers 4:4-5
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