Parashah of the week: Chayei Sarah
“Rebecca lifted her eyes and she saw Isaac. She alighted from the camel” Genesis 24:64
Parashah of the week: Vayera
“Early next morning Abraham took some bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar. He placed them over her shoulder, together with the child, and sent her away” Genesis 21:14
Parashah of the week: Lech Lecha
“I will not take so much as a thread or a sandal strap of what is yours” (Genesis 14:23)
Parashah of the week: Noach
“The waters swelled and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark drifted upon the waters” Genesis 7:18
Parashah of the week: Bereshit
“It is only about fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said: ‘You shall not eat of it or touch it, lest you die’” Genesis 2:3
Parashah of the week: Shabbat Chol Hamo’ed Succot
“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Sovereign, Hashem, the God of Israel” Exodus 34:23
Parashah of the week: Yom Kippur
“For on this day atonement shall be made for you to cleanse you” Leviticus 16:30
Parashah of the week: Ha’azinu
“For this is not a trifling thing for you: it is your very life” Deuteronomy 32:47
Parashah of the week: Nitzavim-Vayelech
"You are standing here today, all of you... from the heads of tribes... to the woodcutters and water-drawers” Deuteronomy 29:9
Parashah of the week: Ki Tavo
“My father was a fugitive Aramean” Deuteronomy 26:15
Parashah of the week: Ki Tetzei
“When you enter your neighbour's vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you desire, until you are sated, but you shall not put [any] into your vessel” Deuteronomy 23:25
Parashah of the week: Shoftim
“Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” Deuteronomy 19:21
Parashah of the week: Re’eh
“Put the inhabitants of that town to the sword and its cattle to the sword. Doom it all and all that is in it to destruction: ...and burn the town” Deuteronomy 13:16-17
Parashah of the week: Va’etchanan
“Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan” Deuteronomy 3:23
Parashah of the week: Devarim
“When all the warriors among the people had died off, Hashem spoke to me” Deuteronomy 2:16-17
Parashah of the week: Mattot-Massei
“Among the cities you shall give to the Levites, shall be six cities of refuge, which you shall provide [as places] to which a murderer can flee” Numbers 35:6
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