JTS Torah Commentary

Vayeilekh

Jan 1, 1980

⁶ Seek the Lord while He can be found,
Call to Him while He is near.

Nitzavim

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁰ I greatly rejoice in the Lord,
My whole being exults in my God.

Vayeilekh

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Moses went and spoke these things to all Israel.

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.

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. —

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.

Yitro

Jan 1, 1980

¹ In the year that King Uzziah died, I beheld my Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; and the skirts of His robe filled the Temple.

Mishpatim

Jan 1, 1980

¹ These are the rules that you shall set before them:

Hayyei Sarah

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Sarah’s lifetime-the span of Sarah’s life-came to one hundred and twenty-seven years. 

Beshallah

Jan 1, 1980

⁴ Deborah, wife of Lappidoth, was a prophetess; she led Israel at that time.

Va’era

Jan 1, 1980

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

Yitro

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Jethro priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the Lord had brought Israel out from Egypt. 

Bo

Jan 1, 1980

¹³ The word which the Lord spoke to the prophet Jeremiah about the coming of King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon to attack the land of Egypt:

Bo

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh. For I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his courtiers, in order that I may display these My signs among them, 

Va’era

Jan 1, 1980

²⁵ Thus said the Lord God: When I have gathered the House of Israel from the peoples among which they have been dispersed, and have shown Myself holy through them in the sight of the nations, they shall settle on their own soil, which I gave to My servant Jacob,

Beshallah

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁷ Now when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although it was nearer; for God said, “The people may have a change of heart when they see war, and return to Egypt.”

Shemot

Jan 1, 1980

⁶ [In days] to come Jacob shall strike root,
Israel shall sprout and blossom,
And the face of the world
Shall be covered with fruit.

Shemot

Jan 1, 1980

¹ These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each coming with his household:

Vayehi

Jan 1, 1980

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

Vayehi

Jan 1, 1980

²⁸ Jacob lived seventeen years in the land of Egypt, so that the span of Jacob’s life came to one hundred and forty-seven years.