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We invite you to follow along as we read from the Torah.
You can look either at the English or the Hebrew.
We have SIX different translations, so our congregants can come every week and experience the Torah from a new point of view.
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About the different Torah translations:
Etz Hayim is a Jewish Publication Society 1960 translation with Conservative commentary. It is a red book.
TheTorah, A Modern Commentary is an egalitarian Reform translation and commentary.
Pentateuch and Haftorahs is the old Jewish Publication Society 1917 translation (Thou art warned!), but with a good introductory commentary.
The Stone Chumash is a modern Orthodox translation and commentary.
The Living Torah is an Orthodox translation in very colloquial English, with lots of pictures and charts. It is a purple book.
The Jewish Study Bible contains no Hebrew: just the Jewish Publication Society 1960 translation with modern scholarly commentary from literary analysis and archaeology.
Rishon (1st reading)Deuteronomy 21:18-21
If a son is stubborn and rebellious, stone him! (Words for a bar/t mitzvah to take seriously.)
The Torah reading begins on these pages in the following books:
Pentateuch and Haftorahs (The "Hertz")page 841
Etz Hayim Torah and Commentary, (Red Book)page 1113
The Torah, A Modern Commentary (The "Plaut")page 1323
The Living Torah (The "Kaplan", a Purple Book)page 968
The Stone Chumash page 1046
The Jewish Study Bible page 415
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Note: The text of the Torah reading is on the top of the page, and the commentaries are on the bottom of the page.
Bar/t Mitzvah’s commentary begins here:
The Torah reading continues on these pages in the following books:
Pentateuch and Haftorahs (The "Hertz")page 265
Etz Hayim Torah and Commentary, (Red Book)page 399
The Torah, A Modern Commentary (The "Plaut")page 264
The Living Torah (The "Kaplan," a Purple Book)page 321
The Stone Chumash page 401
The Jewish Study Bible page 150
The Prayer for Healing comes just before the Maftir ("Concluding" reading). Be sure to remove this reminder when adding in the readings.
The Maftir ("Concluding" reading) goes between the Prayer for Healing and the Hagbahah (Raising of the Torah). Put the boxed description for that final reading and any commentary here.Then remove this text.
Haftarah: Ezekiel 44:15-31
The opening part of the traditional Torah portion (which we did not read this morning) details issues of physical and spiritual purity and blemish for Kohanim (ancient Hebrew Priests of the Temple) as well as for sacrificial offerings. Ezekiel was a Kohen as well as a prophet, and he condemned the Kohanim of his day as contributing to the downfall and exile of Judah by not being righteous and pure enough. This reading was chosen as the Haftarah (concluding prophetic reading) because it amplifies and emphasizes the issues of priestly purity with which the Torah portion began.
The Haftarah reading is found on these pages in the following books:
Pentateuch and Haftorahs (The "Hertz")page 290
Etz Hayim Torah and Commentary, (Red Book)page 436
The Torah, A Modern Commentary (The "Plaut")page 508
The Living Torah (The "Kaplan," a Purple Book)page 349
The Stone Chumash page 401
The Jewish Study Bible page 145
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