Shabbat Parah for Hebrew Year 6143 begins at sundown on and ends at nightfall on . This corresponds to Parashat Shmini.
Shabbat Parah (“Sabbath [of the] red heifer” שבת פרה) takes place on the Shabbat before Shabbat HaChodesh, in preparation for Passover. Numbers 19:1-22 describes the parah adumah (“red heifer”) in the Jewish temple as part of the manner in which the kohanim and the Jewish people purified themselves so that they would be ready (“pure”) to sacrifice the korban Pesach.
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Holiday | Starts | Ends | Hebrew Date |
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Shabbat Parah 2380
Parashat Shmini |
20 Adar II 6140 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2381
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 6141 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2382
Parashat Ki Tisa |
20 Adar 6142 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2383
Parashat Shmini |
20 Adar II 6143 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2384
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 6144 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2385
Parashat Tzav |
18 Adar II 6145 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2386
Parashat Ki Tisa |
20 Adar 6146 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2387
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 6147 |
Torah Portion: Parashat Shmini · Leviticus 9:1-11:47; Numbers 19:1-22
Haftarah for Ashkenazim*:
Ezekiel 36:16-38
· 23 p’sukim
*Shabbat Parah
Haftarah for Sephardim*:
Ezekiel 36:16-36
· 21 p’sukim
*Shabbat Parah
The Jewish Holidays
by Michael Strassfeld
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