JTS Torah Commentary

Behar

Jan 1, 1980

⁶ Jeremiah said: The word of the Lord came to me: ⁷ Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, will come to you and say, “Buy my land in Anathoth, for you are next in succession to redeem it by purchase.”

Emor

Jan 1, 1980

1 The Lord said to Moses: Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them:

None shall defile himself for any [dead] person among his kin, 2 except for the relatives that are closest to him: his mother, his father, his son, his daughter, and his brother; 3 also for a virgin sister, close to him because she has not married, for her he may defile himself.

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.

Kedoshim

Jan 1, 1980

⁷ To Me, O Israelites, you are
Just like the Ethiopians

— declares the Lord —

True, I brought Israel up
From the land of Egypt,
But also the Philistines from Caphtor
And the Arameans from Kir.

Naso

Jan 1, 1980

² There was a certain man from Zorah, of the stock of Dan, whose name was Manoah.

Beha’alotekha

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ² Speak to Aaron and say to him, “When you mount the lamps, let the seven lamps give light at the front of the lampstand.”

Pinehas

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁰ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹¹ “Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest, has turned back My wrath from the Israelites by displaying among them his passion for Me, so that I did not wipe out the Israelite people in My passion.

Aharei Mot

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they drew too close to the presence of the Lord.

Metzora

Jan 1, 1980

³ There were four men, lepers, outside the gate. They said to one another, “Why should we sit here waiting for death?

Metzora

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 

Tazria

Jan 1, 1980

⁴² A man came from Baal-shalishah and he brought the man of God some bread of the first reaping — twenty loaves of barley bread, and some fresh grain in his sack. And [Elisha] said, “Give it to the people and let them eat.”

Tazria

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 

Shemini

Jan 1, 1980

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

Shemini

Jan 1, 1980

¹ On the eighth day Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel. 

Tzav

Jan 1, 1980

²¹ Thus said the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat!

Tzav

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Vayikra

Jan 1, 1980

²¹ The people I formed for Myself
That they might declare my praise.

Vayikra

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying:

Pekudei

Jan 1, 1980

⁵¹ When all the work that King Solomon had done in the House of the Lord was completed, Solomon brought in the sacred donations of his father David — the silver, the gold, and the vessels — and deposited them in the treasury of the House of the Lord.

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.