Join us for Saturday Morning Shabbat Shacharit

Services will be conducted live and also via Zoom with Temple Sholom.

We will use Siddur Hadash (Blue Book), Shabbat and Festivals.

Will forward links Friday morning to the congregation and upon RSVP.

 Parashat Bereshit 5784 / פָּרָשַׁת בְּרֵאשִׁית

14 October 2023 / 29 Tishrei 5784

Parashat Bereshit is the 1st weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

Torah Portion: Genesis 1:1-6:8

Bereishit (“In the Beginning”), the first parashah in the annual Torah reading cycle, begins with God’s creation of the world. The first people, Adam and Eve, eat from the Tree of Knowledge and are banished from the Garden of Eden. Their elder son, Cain, kills their younger son, Abel, and Cain is destined to a life of wandering. [1]

Triennial year 2

1: 2:4-9 · 6 p’sukim ·

2: 2:10-19 · 10 p’sukim ·

3: 2:20-25 · 6 p’sukim ·

4: 3:1-21 · 21 p’sukim ·

5: 3:22-24 · 3 p’sukim ·

6: 4:1-18 · 18 p’sukim ·

7: 4:19-26 · 8 p’sukim ·

maf: 4:23-26 · 4 p’sukim ·

Haftarah for Ashkenazim*: I Samuel 20:18-42 · 25 p’sukim *Shabbat Machar Chodesh

Commentary and Divrei Torah

Sefaria OU Torah Jewish Theological Seminary  American Jewish University

Hertz Chumash: pp. 6 – 16 Triennial Year 2 (Full Kriyah pp. 2 – 20)

Artscroll Chumash: pp. 2 – 23 Triennial Year 2 (Full Kriyah pp. 10 – 29)

Etz Chaim Chumash: pp. 12 – 29 Triennial Year 2 (Full Kriyah pp. 3 – 34)