Numbers 1:1 And יהוה spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tabernacle of the Congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying, 2 Take you אֶת־ the sum of all the congregation of the Children of Israel, after their families, by …
BEHAR (on Mount Sinai)/ Bechukotai (in My statutes)
Leviticus 25:5 אֵת That which grows of itself from the seeds of your previous harvest you will not reap, וְאֶת־ and neither gather the grapes of your untended vine: for it is a year of rest for the land. C-MATS Question: Why did יהוה set up the Sabbatical Year cycle? The land’s rest in the seventh year teaches that the …
Emor (Speak to the Kohen)
This Torah portion gives the laws for the Kohanim, whose Divine service places upon them a particular responsibility to maintain higher standards of righteous behavior and purity. Leviticus 21:1 And יהוה said to Moses, speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron וְאָמַרְתָּ and you say to them, No priest will be defiled for the dead among his people. C-MATS …
ACHAREI MOT (after the death of Aaron’s sons)/ KEDOSHIM (sacred ones)
Leviticus 16:1 And יהוה spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they offered sacrifices before יהוה and died; 2 And יהוה said to Moses, speak to Aaron your brother, so that he does not come at all times into the sacred place within the veil before the mercy seat which is upon the Ark, …
TAZRIA (tzara’at) / METZORA (one being diseased)
Leviticus 13:1 And יהוה spoke to Moses and Aaron saying, 2 When a man shall have in the skin of his flesh a שְׂאֵת lifted up of (rising) a scab, or a bright spot, and it be in the skin of his flesh like the plague of tzara’at (leprosy); then he shall be brought to Aaron the priest, or to …