Full Calendar

Chayyei Sarah (“The Life of Sarah”) opens as Sarah dies and Abraham buys the Cave of Machpelah to bury her. Abraham sends his servant to [...]

Start of month of Kislev on the Hebrew calendar. Kislev (כִּסְלֵו) is the 3rd month of the civil Hebrew year and the 9th month of [...]

Toldot (“Generations”) opens with the births of Isaac andRebecca’s twins, Jacob and Esau. Esau sells his birthright to Jacob inexchange for soup. Isaac and Rebecca [...]

Vayeitzei (“He Went Out”) opens as Jacob dreams about angels going up and down a ladder, and then continues on his journey toward the home [...]

Vayishlach (“He Sent”) follows Jacob and his family as Jacob wrestles with a man (commonly understood as an angel), is renamed Israel, and reconciles with [...]

Vayeshev (“He Settled”) begins the story of Joseph, describing his rivalry with his brothers, slavery in Egypt, and imprisonmentafter his master’s wife frames him in [...]