Torah Portion
Shelach
Shelach – שלח – “Send” Torah: Numbers 13:1-15:41 Prophets: Joshua 2:1-24 Gospel: Mark 10:1-45 But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” 31 Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” 32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a...
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Beha’alotcha – בהעלותך – “When you set up” Numbers 8:1-12:15 Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman. 2 And they said, “Has the Lord indeed spoken only through Moses? Has he not spoken through us also?” And the Lord heard it. 3 Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth. 4 And suddenly the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron and Miriam, “Come out, you three, to the tent of...
read moreBamidbar
Bamidbar – במדבר – “In the wilderness” Torah: Numbers 1:1-4:20 Prophets: Hosea 2:1-22 Gospel: Luke 16:1-17:10 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 2 “The people of Israel shall camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side. 3 Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab, 4 his...
read moreBehar/Bechukotai
Behar/Bechukotai – בהר/בחקותי – “On the mountain/In my statutes” Torah: Leviticus 25:1-27:34 Prophets: Jeremiah 16:19-17:14 Gospel: Luke 13:1-33/John 10:22-42/Luke 14:1-15:32 But if you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments, 15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant, 16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache....
read moreEmor
Emor – אמור – “Say” Torah: Leviticus 21:1-24:23 Prophets: Ezekiel 44:15-31 Gospel: Luke 11:1-12:59 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, these are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts. 3 “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places. 4 “These are the appointed...
read moreTazria/Metzora
Tazria/Metzora – תזריע/מצורע – “She will conceive/Leper” Leviticus 12:1-15:33 Prophets: 2 Kings 7:3-20 Gospel: Mark 9:14-50/Luke 9:51-10:42 The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, 34 “When you come into the land of Canaan, which I give you for a possession, and I put a case of leprous disease in a house in the land of your possession, 35 then he who owns the house shall come and tell the priest, ‘There seems to me to be some case of disease in my house.’ 36 Then the priest shall command that they...
read moreShemini
Shemini – שמיני – “Eighth” Torah: Leviticus 9:1-11:47 Prophets: 2 Sam. 6:1-7:17 Gospel: Mark 9:1-13 Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, which he had not commanded them. 2 And fire came out from before the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord. 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord has said, ‘Among those who are near me I will be sanctified, and before all the people I...
read moreVayikra
Vayikra – ויקרא – “He called” Torah: Leviticus 1:1-5:26 Prophets: Isaiah 43:21-44:23 Gospel: Mark 7:1-30 If anyone of the common people sins unintentionally in doing any one of the things that by the Lord’s commandments ought not to be done, and realizes his guilt, 28 or the sin which he has committed is made known to him, he shall bring for his offering a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he has committed. 29 And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering...
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Vayakhel/Pekudei – ויקהל/פקודי – “He gathered/Countings” Torah: Exodus 35:1-40:38 Prophets: Ezekiel 45:16-46:18 Gospel: Mark 6:14-29/John 6:1-71 Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 35 And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 36 Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out. 37 But if...
read moreKi Tisa
Ki Tisa – כי תשא – “When you take” Torah: Exodus 30:11-34:35 Prophets: Ezekiel 36:16-38 Gospel: Matthew 9:35-11:1 And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose, to the derision of their enemies), 26 then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, “Who is on the Lord’s side? Come to me.” And all the sons of Levi gathered around him. 27 And he said to them, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from...
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