The teachers and Rabbi will be expecting all students for at least one special session on Shabbat during the month of January. Here are the details:
- January 7, 10am-11.30am: BaMidbar, Devarim, and Bat/bar mitzvah candidate classes have a special Torah study and visit services for the Torah reading. Please bring a copy of the Humash*.
- January 21, 10.30am-11.30am: Bereshit attends Tot Shabbat tefilah and kiddush
- January 28, 10.30am-11.30am: Shemot and VaYikra classes have a special Torah study and visit services for the Torah reading.
Each session will be followed by a brunch for students and parents. Details about your brunch will be sent to your email.
*The word Humash generally only refers to “book” bound editions of the Pentateuch, whereas the “scroll” form is called asefer Torah (“book [of the] Torah”).
In modern Jewish practice:
- A printed ḥumash usually sets out the Hebrew text of the Torah with vowel points and cantillation marks, separated into its 54 constituent weekly Torah portions (parashiyyot), together with the haftarah for each portion and, often, translations and notes.
- A ḥumash-Rashi also contains the Targum of Onkelos and the commentary of Rashi, and usually has no vernacular translation of the text.
- A Tikkun soferim or Tiqqun Qore’im sets out, in parallel columns, the unvocalized text of the Pentateuch as it would appear in a Torah scroll and the normal printed text as it appears in a Humash; it sometimes includes haftarot and the five megillot. It exists as an aid for Torah scribes and for those preparing to read from the Sefer Torah in the synagogue.
- A multi-volume set in Hebrew only, often but not always including the entire Tanakh with masoretic notes(sometimes), Targumim and several classical commentaries, is referred to as Mikraot Gedolot ”Great Scriptures.”
