Parashat Achrei Mot 5776 / פָּרָשַׁת אַחֲרֵי מוֹת
/ 29 Nisan 5776 (Diaspora)
Parashat Achrei Mot is the 29th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.
Torah Portion: Leviticus 16:1-18:30
Achrei Mot (“After The Death”) opens by describing the ritual service of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It then details the prohibitions of offering sacrifices outside of the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and of eating animal blood, and ends with a list of forbidden sexual relations. [1]
Full Kriyah
- 1: 16:1-17 · 17 p’sukim ·
- 2: 16:18-24 · 7 p’sukim ·
- 3: 16:25-34 · 10 p’sukim ·
- 4: 17:1-7 · 7 p’sukim ·
- 5: 17:8-18:5 · 14 p’sukim ·
- 6: 18:6-21 · 16 p’sukim ·
- 7: 18:22-30 · 9 p’sukim ·
- maf: 18:28-30 · 3 p’sukim ·
Haftarah for Ashkenazim*:
I Samuel 20:18-42
· 25 p’sukim
*Shabbat Machar Chodesh
Haftarah for Sephardim*: Ezekiel 22:1-16 · 16 p’sukim
Commentary and Divrei Torah
Achrei Mot: The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary by Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin (paid link)
List of Dates
Parashat Achrei Mot is read in the Diaspora on:References
- Parashat Achrei Mot from Sefaria.org
- Sefaria, Inc.
- Achrei Mot (Leviticus 16:1-18:30) and Haftarah (I Samuel 20:18-42): The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS Study Bible) (paid link)
- Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, Jewish Publication Society, 2017
- The Chumash: The Stone Edition (Artscroll Series) (paid link)
- Nosson Scherman, Mesorah Publications, 1993
- A Complete Triennial System for Reading the Torah
- Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly, 1988
- Modification of the Triennial Cycle Readings for Combined Parashot in Certain Years
- Rabbi Miles B. Cohen, 2020
- Haftarot for a Triennial Cycle Torah Reading
- Avram Israel Reisner, 2014
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