Parashat Beha’alotcha 5781 / פָּרָשַׁת בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ
/ 18 Sivan 5781
Parashat Beha’alotcha is the 36th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Numbers 8:1-12:16
Beha’alotekha (“When You Raise”) opens with God instructing Moses to inaugurate the Levites for service in the Mishkan (Tabernacle). It also recounts the stories of people who request a second chance to offer the Passover sacrifice, complaints of the Israelites and their punishments, and a disease that affects Miriam. [1]
Full Kriyah
- 1: 8:1-14 · 14 p’sukim
- 2: 8:15-26 · 12 p’sukim
- 3: 9:1-14 · 14 p’sukim
- 4: 9:15-10:10 · 19 p’sukim
- 5: 10:11-34 · 24 p’sukim
- 6: 10:35-11:29 · 31 p’sukim
- 7: 11:30-12:16 · 22 p’sukim
- maf: 12:14-16 · 3 p’sukim
Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14-4:7 · 21 p’sukim
Triennial year 2
- 1: 9:15-18 · 4 p’sukim
- 2: 9:19-23 · 5 p’sukim
- 3: 10:1-7 · 7 p’sukim
- 4: 10:8-10 · 3 p’sukim
- 5: 10:11-20 · 10 p’sukim
- 6: 10:21-28 · 8 p’sukim
- 7: 10:29-34 · 6 p’sukim
- maf: 10:32-34 · 3 p’sukim
Haftarah: Zechariah 2:14-4:7 · 21 p’sukim
Alternate Haftarah: Joshua 3:3-8, 3:17- 4:7 · 14 p’sukim
Commentary and Divrei Torah
Beha’alotcha: The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin (paid link)
List of Dates
Parashat Beha’alotcha is read in Israel on:References
- Parashat Beha’alotcha from Sefaria.org
- Sefaria, Inc.
- Beha’alotcha (Numbers 8:1-12:16) and Haftarah (Zechariah 2:14-4:7): 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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