Parashat Achrei Mot 5782 / פָּרָשַׁת אַחֲרֵי מוֹת

/ 29 Nisan 5782 (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. 1: 16:1-17 · 17 p’sukim ·
  2. 2: 16:18-24 · 7 p’sukim ·
  3. 3: 16:25-34 · 10 p’sukim ·
  4. 4: 17:1-7 · 7 p’sukim ·
  5. 5: 17:8-18:5 · 14 p’sukim ·
  6. 6: 18:6-21 · 16 p’sukim ·
  7. 7: 18:22-30 · 9 p’sukim ·
  8. maf: 18:28-30 · 3 p’sukim ·
Triennial year 3
  1. 1: 17:1-7 · 7 p’sukim ·
  2. 2: 17:8-12 · 5 p’sukim ·
  3. 3: 17:13-16 · 4 p’sukim ·
  4. 4: 18:1-5 · 5 p’sukim ·
  5. 5: 18:6-21 · 16 p’sukim ·
  6. 6: 18:22-25 · 4 p’sukim ·
  7. 7: 18:26-30 · 5 p’sukim ·
  8. maf: 18:26-30 · 5 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

Weekday for Shabbat afternoon, Monday & Thursday
  1. 1: 16:1-6 · 6 p’sukim ·
  2. 2: 16:7-11 · 5 p’sukim ·
  3. 3: 16:12-17 · 6 p’sukim ·

Commentary and Divrei Torah

List of Dates

Parashat Achrei Mot is read in the Diaspora on:

References

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
Parashat Achrei Mot from Sefaria.org
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