Parashat Sh’lach / פָּרָשַׁת שְׁלַח־לְךָ

Parashat Sh’lach is the 37th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Next read in the Diaspora on / 25 Sivan 5785.

This page displays the Diaspora Torah reading for Sh’lach. The Israel schedule is used by Jews living in modern Israel.

Torah Portion: Numbers 13:1-15:41

Shelach (“Send”) tells the story of Israelite spies journeying into Canaan, the negative report they bring back, and the resulting punishment decreed upon the Israelites: to wander and die in the desert over forty years. It ends with laws about sacrifices, the story of a man who desecrates Shabbat, and the commandment to wear ritual fringes. [1]

Full Kriyah
  1. 1: 13:1-20 · 20 p’sukim
  2. 2: 13:21-14:7 · 20 p’sukim
  3. 3: 14:8-25 · 18 p’sukim
  4. 4: 14:26-15:7 · 27 p’sukim
  5. 5: 15:8-16 · 9 p’sukim
  6. 6: 15:17-26 · 10 p’sukim
  7. 7: 15:27-41 · 15 p’sukim
  8. maf: 15:37-41 · 5 p’sukim

Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-24 · 24 p’sukim

Triennial Year 1
  1. 1: 13:1-3 · 3 p’sukim
  2. 2: 13:4-16 · 13 p’sukim
  3. 3: 13:17-20 · 4 p’sukim
  4. 4: 13:21-24 · 4 p’sukim
  5. 5: 13:25-30 · 6 p’sukim
  6. 6: 13:31-33 · 3 p’sukim
  7. 7: 14:1-7 · 7 p’sukim
  8. maf: 14:5-7 · 3 p’sukim

Alternate Haftarah: Joshua 2:1-11 · 11 p’sukim

Triennial Year 2
  1. 1: 14:8-10 · 3 p’sukim
  2. 2: 14:11-20 · 10 p’sukim
  3. 3: 14:21-25 · 5 p’sukim
  4. 4: 14:26-38 · 13 p’sukim
  5. 5: 14:39-42 · 4 p’sukim
  6. 6: 14:43-15:3 · 6 p’sukim
  7. 7: 15:4-7 · 4 p’sukim
  8. maf: 15:4-7 · 4 p’sukim

Alternate Haftarah: Joshua 14:6-15 · 10 p’sukim

Triennial Year 3
  1. 1: 15:8-10 · 3 p’sukim
  2. 2: 15:11-16 · 6 p’sukim
  3. 3: 15:17-21 · 5 p’sukim
  4. 4: 15:22-26 · 5 p’sukim
  5. 5: 15:27-31 · 5 p’sukim
  6. 6: 15:32-36 · 5 p’sukim
  7. 7: 15:37-41 · 5 p’sukim
  8. maf: 15:37-41 · 5 p’sukim

Alternate Haftarah: I Kings 17:1-16 · 16 p’sukim

Weekday for Shabbat afternoon, Monday & Thursday
  1. 1: 13:1-3 · 3 p’sukim
  2. 2: 13:4-16 · 13 p’sukim
  3. 3: 13:17-20 · 4 p’sukim

Commentary and Divrei Torah

Sh’lach: The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin (paid link)

Sh’lach: The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS Study Bible)

List of Dates

Parashat Sh’lach is read in the Diaspora on:

References

Parashat Sh’lach from Sefaria.org
Sefaria, Inc.
Sh’lach (Numbers 13:1-15:41) and Haftarah (Joshua 2:1-24): The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS Study Bible) (paid link)
Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, Jewish Publication Society, 2017
The Chumash: The Stone Edition (Artscroll Series) (paid link)
Nosson Scherman, Mesorah Publications, 1993
A Complete Triennial System for Reading the Torah
Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly, 1988
Haftarot for a Triennial Cycle Torah Reading
Avram Israel Reisner, 2014

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