{"id":75311,"date":"2020-05-27T15:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T12:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=75311"},"modified":"2020-05-27T15:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T12:40:51","slug":"which-parasha-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/which-parasha-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Which Parasha Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Usually, across the Jewish world, the weekly portion (parashat hashavua)\u00a0<\/em>is just that: the portion that we all read as Jews that week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Usually.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, however, the 30th of May, 2020 – the 7th of Sivan – is different.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In Israel, Jews will be reading the parasha called Naso, the second reading from the book of Bamidbar, the book of Numbers.<\/p>\n

And in the Diaspora? Well, for Conservative and Orthodox Jews – it will be the second day of Shavuot (since the three pilgrimage holidays of Sukkot, Pesach and Shavuot are each celebrated for an extra day in the Diaspora). They will therefore be reading the special readings for the holiday, and not parashat hashavua.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When will they read Naso? Next week – while the Israeli communities are already on Behaa’lotcha.<\/p>\n

So does that mean we will then be one off forever? Never to read the same portion again at the same time?<\/p>\n

No – this only continues until the next “double portion,” when two consecutive portions can be read on the same Shabbat (of which there are a number to allow for expansion on leap years…).\u00a0<\/p>\n

When will that be? On July 4th, 12th of Tammuz, the double portion of Chukat-Balak will be read in the Diaspora, while only Balak will be read in Israel (since they read Chukat the previous week). Then the next week, July 11th, the Jewish world will be reunited again with Pinchas.<\/p>\n

And so we will remain, until the next time this happens. Which according to this site<\/a>\u00a0– will be following the end of Pesach, 2022 \/ 5782.<\/p>\n

929 English will follow the Diaspora readings for the next 5 weeks.<\/p>\n

Chag sameach – happy holiday!\u00a0<\/p>\n","image":false,"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"So You Think You Know Judaism?","main_caption":"Which Parasha Is It?","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Who wants to know? And where are they? Talk about a gap between Israel and Diaspora!","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":false,"preview_video":"","external_link":"","link_for_pay":false,"tile_gallery_items":false,"credits":""},"alternate_tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"","hide_media":false},"tile_group":{"preview_image_url":false,"main_caption":"","sub_caption":"","":null,"popup_package_extra_content":"","read_time":""},"home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo":{"seo_title":"","seo_description":"","seo_default_title":"","seo_default_description":""},"links":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75314,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75311\/revisions\/75314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}