This Week's Parashah
How to Study This Week's Portion
Read the entire portion through once without stopping. Do not try to interpret yet. Just let the words land. Ask: what is actually happening here? Who is speaking? What is being commanded or described?
Identify two or three words or phrases that stand out. Look them up in a Hebrew lexicon or Strong's Concordance. Ask: what does this word mean in its original language? Does the Hebrew meaning add depth to what you read?
Where does this theme appear elsewhere in the Tanakh? YaHoWaH's Word is one connected story. A command in the Torah often echoes in the Prophets and the Writings. Follow the thread.
What is YaHoWaH saying to His people through this portion? Not what can you make it mean, but what does it actually say? The message must grow out of the text, not be imported into it.
What does this portion ask of you this week? Is there a command to obey, a character to reflect on, a promise to hold, or a warning to heed? Bring it before YaHoWaH in prayer and ask Him to show you how to live it.
End your study in prayer. Use the words of the portion itself. Speak back to YaHoWaH what He has spoken. Let the portion become your prayer for the week.
Want the full framework with examples and deeper guidance? The complete How to Study a Torah Portion teaching is in the Teaching Library.
Read the Full Teaching →A Note on the Hebrew Calendar
The Torah is divided into 54 portions, called Parashiyot (פָּרָשִׁיּוֹת), and read through completely each year. The cycle begins and ends on Simchat Torah (שִׂמְחַת תּוֹרָה), the holiday that immediately follows Sukkot in the early autumn.
Each week, communities around the world read the same portion — a practice that has connected the Jewish people across centuries, languages, and continents. When you read this week's portion, you are reading what YaHoWaH's people have been reading in this same week for generations.
The Hebrew calendar is a lunisolar calendar — it follows both the moon and the sun. In some years, a 13th month is added to keep the calendar aligned with the agricultural seasons. In those leap years, two portions are sometimes combined, which is why a 54-portion cycle can cover a 52-week year. The calculation on this page uses a consistent anchor date to approximate the current reading cycle.
All 54 Torah Portions
A Note on the Haftarah (הַפְטָרָה): Each Torah portion is traditionally accompanied by a Haftarah — a reading from the Prophets selected by the rabbis because of its thematic connection to the week's portion. The Haftarah readings are a Rabbinical tradition developed after the biblical period and are not commanded in the Written Torah. They are Tier Three in the Three Tiers of Authority framework.
Tikkun HaPeretz acknowledges the Haftarah as a meaningful tradition that draws attention to the Prophets and their connection to the Torah. However we hold it as community wisdom, not as a divine command equal to Torah. Read our full teaching on what the Haftarah is and how it came about →
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