This Week's Torah Portion
B'midbar
בְּמִדבַּר
In the Wilderness
On the first day of the second month, in the second year following the exodus from the land of Egypt, the Eternal One spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tent of Meeting, saying: "Take a census of the whole Israelite company…" - Numbers 1:1-2
Torah
Numbers 1:1−4:20Haftarah
Hosea 2:1-22When
/ 4 Sivan 5781
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