Shabbat Parah for Hebrew Year 9134 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 5371
Parashat Shmini |
20 Adar II 9131 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5372
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 9132 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5373
Parashat Ki Tisa |
20 Adar 9133 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5374
Parashat Shmini |
20 Adar II 9134 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5375
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 9135 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5376
Parashat Ki Tisa |
18 Adar 9136 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5377
Parashat Tzav |
20 Adar II 9137 | ||
Shabbat Parah 5378
Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei |
23 Adar 9138 |
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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