Torah Study, most Saturdays at 9:00 a.m.
- Reach out to find out our latest study text.
- If you need a copy of the Torah, you can use one at the synagogue or access one of the Torah Resources links below.
- Check out the URJ Torah Calendar* for this week’s portion and a range of thoughtful d’vars.
*Note: URJ displays the portions by Saturday beginning date, but the associated Hebrew calendar day begins the evening before (on Friday evening).
Torah Resources
If you don’t have a copy of the Torah where you are, use one of the many available digital resources. A number of sites provide full text online.
URJ’s Torah study page, updated weekly
- Scroll down to the heading This Week’s Torah Portion and look below the heading.
- For an overview, select the name of the parashat.
- For commentary, select View [parashat name] Commentary.
- For the text, select Read Full Text of text of [parashat name] (CCAR translation from The Torah: A Modern Commentary).ISJL’s Taste of Torah, updated weekly.
Sefaria’s Torah resources
- Visit Sefaria’s Torah Portions page and select the correct parashat.
- For the text, read the parashat directly from that page or select Read the Portion (JPS translation from Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures).
- For commentaries, select Sheets and choose a commentary.
Chabad’s resources, updated weekly
- For an overview, look to the right-hand menu and select Text & Summaries, then [parashat name] in a Nutshell.
- For the text, look to the right-hand menu and select Text & Summaries, then [parashat name] Torah Reading (Rabbi A.J. Rosenberg’s translation; you can use the button at the top of the translation to turn on Rashi’s commentary).
Talmud
Read introductions to Talmud on My Jewish Learning (short) and Chabad (long). View a guide to the layout of the Babylonian Talmud. Heidi Lerner lists other online resources in an article for the Association for Jewish Studies.
Babylonian Talmud, a.k.a. Talmud Bavli (more detailed, and considered more authoritative than the Jerusalem Talmud) resources:
- Michael J. Rodkinson’s 1918 translation (pdf) and HTML (webpage) versions of many tractates on the Jewish Virtual Library
- Soncino Babylonian Talmud, Ed. I Epstein, 1935-1952, on Halakhah.com
- The William Davidson Talmud on Sefaria (read about the WD Talmud)
- Chabad’s Study Talmud page – numerous resources.
- RealClearDaf presents both sides of a Bavli Talmud page and has an audio lesson to accompany; register for free to access other days.
- HebrewBooks’ scanned and OCRed version (under “Shas,” another term for Talmud)
- BavliOnline’s manuscripts (they load slowly)
Jerusalem Talmud, a.k.a. Talmud Yerushalmi
- Sefaria’s Talmud Yerushalmi page
- YerushalmiOnline’s manuscripts (they load slowly)