Torah reading

Torah reading

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Adapting an ancient practice from the Land of Israel [http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=327&letter=T&search=triennial] , some Conservative (as evidenced in the Etz Hayim chumash) and most ReformFact|date=October 2007, ReconstructionistFact|date=October 2007 and RenewalFact|date=October 2007 congregations have switched to a triennial cycle, where the first third of each parsha is read one year, the second third the next year and the final third in a third year. Additionally, there may be fewer than seven aliyot.

ee also

*Synagogue Aliyah
*Aron kodesh
*Cantillation
*Haftarah
*Jewish services
*Minyan
*Parsha
*Torah scroll
*Yad
*Partnership Minyan
*Kabbalah

References

External links

* [http://www.lashon.net/Parashah.html JavaScript to display current Torah reading]
* [http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/readingp.htm Hyperlinked table of Torah readings]
* [http://bible.ort.org/books/divreid2.asp?action=displaypage&book=1&portion=1 Summary of Reading by Weekly Parasha]
* [http://www.chabad.org/article.html?AID=46091 Weekly Torah reading with commentaries and columnists]
* [http://www.shiur.com/index.php?id=C0_16_6&spar=16&s_id=16 Weekly Torah reading submitted by many rabbis with commentaries and insights]
* [http://www.sym454.org/hebrew/parshah.htm Weekly Torah Portions and Special Sabbaths] (rules in algorithm form, for use in calendar calculations)
* [http://torahreading.dafyomireview.com/ Weekly reading in free MP3 Audio for Sefardim and Ashkenazim]
* [http://www.oztorah.com/current/archive/archive1.html OzTorah - Torah insights from Australia]

Further reading

* Gidon Rothstein, [http://traditiononline.org/news/article.cfm?id=100780 "Women’s Aliyyot in Contemporary Synagogues."] "Tradition" 39(2), Summer 2005.
* Joel B. Wolowelsky, [http://traditiononline.org/news/article.cfm?id=100781 "On Kohanim and Uncommon Aliyyot."] "Tradition" 39(2), Summer 2005

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