JTS Torah Commentary

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: 

Vayak-hel

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Moses then convoked the whole Israelite community and said to them:

These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do:

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.”

Tetzavveh

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁰ [Now] you, O mortal, describe the Temple to the House of Israel, and let them measure its design. 

Vayak-hel-Pekudei

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Moses then convoked the whole Israelite community and said to them:

These are the things that the Lord has commanded you to do: ² On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

Tazria-Metzora

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying: ² Speak to the Israelite people thus: When a woman at childbirth bears a male, she shall be unclean seven days; she shall be unclean as at the time of her menstrual infirmity.

Aharei Mot-Kedoshim

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. ² The Lord said to Moses:
Tell your brother Aaron that he is not to come at will into the Shrine behind the curtain, in front of the cover that is upon the ark, lest he die; for I appear in the cloud over the cover. 

Behar-Behukkotai

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.

Hukkat-Balak

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: ² This is the ritual law that the Lord has commanded:

Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid.

Mattot-Masei

Jan 1, 1980

³ If a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath imposing an obligation on himself, he shall not break his pledge; he must carry out all that has crossed his lips.

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. 

Balak

Jan 1, 1980

² Balak son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.

Balak

Jan 1, 1980

⁶ The remnant of Jacob shall be,
In the midst of the many peoples,
Like dew from the Lord,
Like droplets on grass–
Which do not look to any man
Nor place their hope in mortals.

Hukkat

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: ² This is the ritual law that the Lord has commanded:

Instruct the Israelite people to bring you a red cow without blemish, in which there is no defect and on which no yoke has been laid.

Hukkat

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Jephthah the Gileadite was an able warrior, who was the son of a prostitute. Jephthah’s father was Gilead; ² but Gilead also had sons by his wife, and when the wife’s sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out.

Korah

Jan 1, 1980

1 Now Korah, son of Izhar son of Kohath son of Levi, betook himself, along with Dathan and Abiram sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth — descendants of Reuben — 2 to rise up against Moses, together with two hundred and fifty Israelites, chieftains of the community, chosen in the assembly, men of repute.

Korah

Jan 1, 1980

¹⁴ Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and there inaugurate the monarchy.”

Shelah Lekha

Jan 1, 1980

¹ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Send men to scout the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelite people; send one man from each of their ancestral tribes, each one a chieftain among them.”

Shelah Lekha

Jan 1, 1980

¹ Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, reconnoiter the region of Jericho.” So they set out, and they came to the house of a harlot named Rahab and lodged there.

Beha’alotekha

Jan 1, 1980

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