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Parashah of the week: Ha’azinu

“Moses came, together with Hosea son of Nun, and recited all the words of this song in the hearing of the people” Deuteronomy 32:44

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A new Torah scroll being completed in Berlin last year (Photo:Getty Images)

Prince William is shown a Torah scroll during a visit to Western Marble Arch Synagogue (photo:Getty Images)

Parashah of the week: Mattot-Massei

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Monkey grasshoppers (Sharp Photography/Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Shelach Lecha

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“You shall count seven weeks from the day after the ‘sabbath’ on which you bring an omer of grain as a wave-offering – seven complete weeks. You shall count to the day after the seventh week, making fifty days” Leviticus 23:15-16

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May 15, 2025 09:38

Shavuot marked the wheat harvest in ancient times (photo: Getty)

Parashah of the week: Tzav

“Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the ram’s head, and it was slaughtered. Moses took some of its blood and put it on Aaron’s right ear-lobe, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.” Leviticus 8:22-23

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April 10, 2025 09:14

Smoke rises from a burnt offering (Phillip Medhurst Collection of Bible Illustrations/Wikimedia Commons)

Parashah of the week: Tetzaveh

“And they shall know that I the Eternal am their God, who brought them out from the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them — I, the Eternal, their God” Exodus 29:44

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March 7, 2025 09:06