Shabbat Parah for Hebrew Year 9039 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 5276
Parashat Shmini |
20 Adar II 9036 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5277
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 9037 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5278
Parashat Ki Tisa |
20 Adar 9038 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5279
Parashat Shmini |
20 Adar II 9039 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5280
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 9040 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5281
Parashat Ki Tisa |
18 Adar 9041 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5282
Parashat Tzav |
20 Adar II 9042 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5283
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 9043 |
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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