Shabbat Parah for Hebrew Year 7903 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 4140
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 7900 | ||
Shabbat Parah 4141
Parashat Ki Tisa |
18 Adar 7901 | ||
Shabbat Parah 4142
Parashat Tzav |
20 Adar II 7902 | ||
Shabbat Parah 4143
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 7903 | ||
Shabbat Parah 4144
Parashat Shmini |
23 Adar II 7904 | ||
Shabbat Parah 4145
Parashat Ki Tisa |
20 Adar 7905 | ||
Shabbat Parah 4146
Parashat Vayakhel |
22 Adar 7906 | ||
Shabbat Parah 4147
Parashat Shmini |
23 Adar II 7907 |
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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