The Torah Portions

The weekly Torah portion (Hebrew: פָּרָשָׁת הַשָּׁבוּעַ Parashat ha-Shavua‎, popularly just parashah or parshah and also known as a Sidra) is a section of the Torah read in Jewish services.The Torah is read publicly over the course of a year, with one major portion read each week in the Shabbat morning service.

Each weekly Torah portion adopts its name from one of the first unique word or words in the Hebrew text. Dating back to the time of the Babylonian captivity (6th Century BCE),[citation needed] public Torah reading mostly followed an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the Torah divided into 54 weekly portions to correspond to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years.

Below are all the Torah weekly Portions,

To access each Portion's article please click on the Portion's name.

All articles written and donated by Rabbi Zev Leff.