Shabbat Parah for Hebrew Year 6319 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 2556
Parashat Shmini |
20 Adar II 6316 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2557
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 6317 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2558
Parashat Ki Tisa |
20 Adar 6318 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2559
Parashat Shmini |
20 Adar II 6319 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2560
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 6320 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2561
Parashat Ki Tisa |
18 Adar 6321 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2562
Parashat Tzav |
20 Adar II 6322 | ||
Shabbat Parah 2563
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 6323 |
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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