JTS Torah Archive

Pekudei

Jan 1, 1980

²¹ These are the records of the Tabernacle, the Tabernacle of the Pact, which were drawn up at Moses’ bidding — the work of the Levites under the direction of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

Lekh Lekha

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord said to Abram, Go forth from your native land and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.

Hanukkah (First Shabbat)

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁴ Shout for joy, Fair Zion! For lo, I come; and I will dwell in your midst — declares the LORD.

Nitzavim

Jan 1, 1980

⁹ You stand this day, all of you, before the Lord your God — your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel, ¹⁰ your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer — ¹¹ to enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions; ¹² to the end that He may establish you this day as His people and be your God, as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Vayeshev

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Now Jacob was settled in the land where his father had sojourned, the land of Canaan. 

Behar

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai: ² Speak to the Israelite people and say to them:

When you enter the land that I assign to you, the land shall observe a sabbath of the Lord.

Nitzavim-Vayeilekh

Jan 1, 1980

⁹ You stand this day, all of you, before the Lord your God — your tribal heads, your elders and your officials, all the men of Israel, ¹⁰ your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to waterdrawer — ¹¹ to enter into the covenant of the Lord your God, which the Lord your God is concluding with you this day, with its sanctions; ¹² to the end that He may establish you this day as His people and be your God, as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 

Shavuot Day 1

Jan 1, 1980

¹ On the third new moon after the Israelites had gone forth from the land of Egypt, on that very day, they entered the wilderness of Sinai.

Metzora

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 

Aharei Mot

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The word of the Lord came to me: ² Further, O mortal, arraign, arraign the city of bloodshed; declare to her all her abhorrent deeds!

Ha’azinu

Jan 1, 1980

¹ David addressed the words of this song to the Lord, after the Lord had saved him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hands of Saul.

Shemini Atzeret

Jan 1, 1980

²² You shall set aside every year a tenth part of all the yield of your sowing that is brought from the field.

Bereishit

Jan 1, 1980

¹ When God began to create heaven and earth — ² the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water — ³ God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.

Pesah Day 7

Jan 1, 1980

¹ David addressed the words of this song to the Lord, after the Lord had saved him from the hands of all his enemies and from the hands of Saul.

Vayak-hel

Jan 1, 1980

⁴⁰ Hiram also made the lavers, the scrapers, and the sprinkling bowls.

So Hiram finished all the work that he had been doing for King Solomon on the House of the Lord: 

Shabbat Rosh Hodesh

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Thus said the Lord:
The heaven is My throne
And the earth is My footstool:
Where could you build a house for Me,
What place could serve as My abode?

Noah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Shout, O barren one,
You who bore no child!
Shout aloud for joy,
You who did not travail!
For the children of the wife forlorn
Shall outnumber those of the espoused
— said the Lord.

Hanukkah (Second Shabbat)

Jan 1, 1980

⁴⁰ Hiram also made the lavers, the scrapers, and the sprinkling bowls.

Ki Tetzei

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Shout, O barren one,
You who bore no child!
Shout aloud for joy,
You who did not travail!
For the children of the wife forlorn
Shall outnumber those of the espoused

— said the Lord. —

Miketz

Jan 1, 1980

¹ After two years’ time, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile,