Shabbat Parah for Hebrew Year 6147 begins at sundown on and ends at nightfall on . This corresponds to Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei.
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 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 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2388
Parashat Shmini |
23 Adar II 6148 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2389
Parashat Ki Tisa |
20 Adar 6149 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2390
Parashat Vayakhel |
22 Adar 6150 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2391
Parashat Shmini |
23 Adar II 6151 |
Torah Portion: Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei · Exodus 35:1-40:38; 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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