Parashat Chukat 5798 / פָּרָשַׁת חֻקַּת
/ 30 Sivan 5798 (Diaspora)
Parashat Chukat is the 39th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
This page displays the Diaspora Torah reading for Chukat 5798. The Israel schedule is used by Jews living in modern Israel.
Torah Portion: Numbers 19:1-22:1, 28:9-15
Chukat (“Law Of”) opens by describing the process of burning the red heifer and using its ashes for purification. It also tells the stories of the deaths of Miriam and Aaron, Moses’ striking of a rock to bring forth water, a plague of venomous snakes, and battles against the Emorite kings Sihon and Og. [1]
Full Kriyah
- 1: 19:1-17 · 17 p’sukim
- 2: 19:18-20:6 · 11 p’sukim
- 3: 20:7-13 · 7 p’sukim
- 4: 20:14-21 · 8 p’sukim
- 5: 20:22-21:9 · 17 p’sukim
- 6: 21:10-20 · 11 p’sukim
- 7: 21:21-22:1 · 16 p’sukim
- maf*: 28:9-15
· 7 p’sukim
*Shabbat Rosh Chodesh
Haftarah*:
Isaiah 66:1-24
· 24 p’sukim
*Shabbat Rosh Chodesh
Triennial year 1
N.B. the following is read in
the Diaspora for 5798.
See also Chukat 5798 Israel
Commentary and Divrei Torah
Chukat: The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin (paid link)
List of Dates
Parashat Chukat is read in the Diaspora on:References
- Parashat Chukat from Sefaria.org
- Sefaria, Inc.
- Chukat (Numbers 19:1-22:1) and Haftarah (Judges 11:1-33): 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
- Modification of the Triennial Cycle Readings for Combined Parashot in Certain Years
- Rabbi Miles B. Cohen, 2020
- Haftarot for a Triennial Cycle Torah Reading
- Avram Israel Reisner, 2014
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