JTS Torah Archive

Devarim

Jan 1, 1980

¹ These are the words that Moses addressed to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan. — Through the wilderness, in the Arabah near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Di-zahab, ² it is eleven days from Horeb to Kadesh-barnea by the Mount Seir route.

Ki Tavo

Jan 1, 1980

¹ When you enter the land that the Lord your God is giving you as a heritage, and you possess it and settle in it, ² you shall take some of every first fruit of the soil, which you harvest from the land that the Lord your God is giving you, put it in a basket and go to the place where the Lord your God will choose to establish His name. 

Sukkot Day 2

Jan 1, 1980

² All the men of Israel gathered before King Solomon at the Feast, in the month of Ethanim — that is, the seventh month.

Shabbat Rosh Hodesh

Jan 1, 1980

⁹ On the sabbath day: two yearling lambs without blemish, together with two-tenths of a measure of choice flour with oil mixed in as a meal offering, and with the proper libation — ¹⁰ a burnt offering for every sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its libation.

Tazria

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 

Re’eh

Jan 1, 1980

¹¹ Unhappy, storm-tossed one, uncomforted!
I will lay carbuncles as your building stones
And make your foundations of sapphires.

Shemini Atzeret

Jan 1, 1980

⁵⁴ When Solomon finished offering to the Lord all this prayer and supplication, he rose from where he had been kneeling, in front of the altar of the Lord, his hands spread out toward heaven.

Pesah Day 8

Jan 1, 1980

³² This same day at Nob
He shall stand and wave his hand.

O Mount of Fair Zion!
O hill of Jerusalem!

Vayehi

Jan 1, 1980

¹ When David’s life was drawing to a close, he instructed his son Solomon as follows:

Naso

Jan 1, 1980

²¹ The Lord spoke to Moses: ²² Take a census of the Gershonites also, by their ancestral house and by their clans.

Ki Tissa

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Much later, in the third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah: “Go, appear before Ahab; then I will send rain upon the earth.”

Vezot Haberakhah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ attendant:

² “My servant Moses is dead. Prepare to cross the Jordan, together with all this people, into the land that I am giving to the Israelites.

Bereishit

Jan 1, 1980

⁵ Thus said God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and what it brings forth,
Who gave breath to the people upon it
And life to those who walk thereon:

Ki Tetzei

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁰ When you take the field against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive, ¹¹ and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her to wife, ¹² you shall bring her into your house, and she shall trim her hair, pare her nails, ¹³ and discard her captive’s garb.

Emor

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁵ But the levitical priests descended from Zadok, who maintained the service of My Sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from Me — they shall approach Me to minister to Me; they shall stand before Me to offer Me fat and blood — declares the Lord God.

Devarim

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The prophecies of Isaiah son of Amoz, who prophesied concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

Shavuot Day 1

Jan 1, 1980

¹ In the thirtieth year, on the fifth day of the fourth month, when I was in the community of exiles by the Chebar Canal, the heavens opened and I saw visions of God.

Va’era

Jan 1, 1980

² God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord.

Shemini

Jan 1, 1980

¹ David again assembled all the picked men of Israel, thirty thousand strong. 

Eikev

Jan 1, 1980

¹² And if you do obey these rules and observe them carefully, the Lord your God will maintain faithfully for you the covenant that He made on oath with your fathers: ¹³ He will favor you and bless you and multiply you; He will bless the issue of your womb and the produce of your soil, your new grain and wine and oil, the calving of your herd and the lambing of your flock, in the land that He swore to your fathers to assign to you.