Weekly Torah Portions In The Torah Portion Calendar

Weekly Torah Portions In The Torah Portion Calendar

A division of Torah portions that is done in weekly readings is known as weekly Torah portions. These readings have made a place for their own in the Torah portion calendar. The readings consist of recitations of chapters from the Old Testament, or the Hebrew Bible. These readings are very popular at Jewish services. They include a lot of appreciation for the God.

Traditionally, Torah is read to the public all through the year. Tradition also mandates a weekly reading which focuses on one particular part of the Torah. This service is called the weekly Torah portion or weekly reading. This is done on the seventh day of the Jewish week. The seventh day of the Jewish week falls on Saturday in the Roman calendar we use at this time.For those who know Hebrew, these weekly portions have a unique name, para-shat haShavuah. These weekly portions play an important role in the study of sacred Jewish texts. A few of these weekly portions are titled “words from the Torah.” These words are selected by a group of experienced Rabbis. The rabbis choose them because they think it's important for the mass to hear these words.

In the Torah portion calendar the weekly words are chosen from the five sacred books of the Torah. These portions represent the strongest of the strong words the god wants the Jewish people to hear.Each weekly Torah portion takes its name from some of the unique words found in the ancient Hebrew texts. Some of these portions refer to the events that date back to the sixth century, when Babylonia was captured. 

In total there are 54 different weekly portions of the Torah. These portions are recited in accordance with the old Luni-solar calendar of the Jews. A Luni-solar calendar counts the position of both the sun and the moon to keep time. The cycle of weekly portions of the Torah ends in a festival known as the Smichat Torah.The Jewish calendar is unlike the modern calendar we use today. There are years in the Jewish calendar that contain as many as 55 weeks. Therefore in some years there are two Smichat Torah festivals.

Weekly Torah portions are not only helpful to people who come to read them. These have a sanctified effect on the listeners as well. They also instill in them God's approach of life and how each are anticipated to accomplish these ways in their individual lives.