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Shemot 30:11-34:35

Parashat Ki Tisa

פרשת כי תשא

The OrQuest app explains one passage of Parashat Ki Tisa verse by verse.

When it is read in Israel

The Israeli reading calendar is from Hebcal (CC BY 4.0), checked against Sefaria.

Verse by verse

Shemot 31:16-17

And They Shall Keep

Two verses said every Shabbat, in prayer and at Kiddush: the day is an everlasting covenant and a standing sign between God and Israel.

For children, teens and adults

Forty days of building plans (gold, curtains, oil, exact measurements), and then, right before the tablets are handed over, God stops and says something else: keep Shabbat. Two verses, placed exactly where the holiest building project in history has to pause. They are said every Shabbat, in Maariv on Friday night and again at Kiddush in the morning, usually without anyone hearing how strange the last word is.

וְשָׁמְרוּ בְנֵי־יִשְׂרָאֵל אֶת־הַשַּׁבָּת לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת־הַשַּׁבָּת לְדֹרֹתָם בְּרִית עוֹלָם׃

Shemot 31:16

V'shamru v'nei Yisra'el et haShabbat, la'asot et haShabbat l'dorotam brit olam.

The children of Israel shall keep the Shabbat, to make the Shabbat throughout their generations, an everlasting covenant.

The whole passage, verse by verse

The verses are from Miqra according to the Masorah (Wikisource, CC BY-SA 4.0), via Sefaria, without the cantillation marks. On this site the four-letter Name is written ה׳.

The parashah calendar

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