Parashat Bereshit / פָּרָשַׁת בְּרֵאשִׁית

Parashat Bereshit is the 1st weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. Next read on / 29 Tishrei 5784.

Torah Portion: Genesis 1:1-6:8

Bereishit (“In the Beginning”), the first parashah in the annual Torah reading cycle, begins with God’s creation of the world. The first people, Adam and Eve, eat from the Tree of Knowledge and are banished from the Garden of Eden. Their elder son, Cain, kills their younger son, Abel, and Cain is destined to a life of wandering. [1]

Full Kriyah
  1. 1: 1:1-2:3 · 34 p’sukim ·
  2. 2: 2:4-19 · 16 p’sukim ·
  3. 3: 2:20-3:21 · 27 p’sukim ·
  4. 4: 3:22-4:18 · 21 p’sukim ·
  5. 5: 4:19-22 · 4 p’sukim ·
  6. 6: 4:23-5:24 · 28 p’sukim ·
  7. 7: 5:25-6:8 · 16 p’sukim ·
  8. maf: 6:5-8 · 4 p’sukim ·

Haftarah for Ashkenazim: Isaiah 42:5-43:10 · 31 p’sukim

Haftarah for Sephardim: Isaiah 42:5-21 · 17 p’sukim

N.B. special Haftarah in years 5784, 5787, 5788, 5791, 5794

Triennial Year 1
  1. 1: 1:1-5 · 5 p’sukim ·
  2. 2: 1:6-8 · 3 p’sukim ·
  3. 3: 1:9-13 · 5 p’sukim ·
  4. 4: 1:14-19 · 6 p’sukim ·
  5. 5: 1:20-23 · 4 p’sukim ·
  6. 6: 1:24-31 · 8 p’sukim ·
  7. 7: 2:1-3 · 3 p’sukim ·
  8. maf: 2:1-3 · 3 p’sukim ·

Alternate Haftarah: Isaiah 42:5-21 · 17 p’sukim

Triennial Year 2
  1. 1: 2:4-9 · 6 p’sukim ·
  2. 2: 2:10-19 · 10 p’sukim ·
  3. 3: 2:20-25 · 6 p’sukim ·
  4. 4: 3:1-21 · 21 p’sukim ·
  5. 5: 3:22-24 · 3 p’sukim ·
  6. 6: 4:1-18 · 18 p’sukim ·
  7. 7: 4:19-26 · 8 p’sukim ·
  8. maf: 4:23-26 · 4 p’sukim ·

Haftarah*: I Samuel 20:18-42 · 25 p’sukim
*Shabbat Machar Chodesh

Triennial Year 3
  1. 1: 5:1-5 · 5 p’sukim ·
  2. 2: 5:6-8 · 3 p’sukim ·
  3. 3: 5:9-14 · 6 p’sukim ·
  4. 4: 5:15-20 · 6 p’sukim ·
  5. 5: 5:21-24 · 4 p’sukim ·
  6. 6: 5:25-31 · 7 p’sukim ·
  7. 7: 5:32-6:8 · 9 p’sukim ·
  8. maf: 6:5-8 · 4 p’sukim ·

Alternate Haftarah: II Kings 2:1-13 · 13 p’sukim

Weekday for Shabbat afternoon, Monday & Thursday
  1. 1: 1:1-5 · 5 p’sukim ·
  2. 2: 1:6-8 · 3 p’sukim ·
  3. 3: 1:9-13 · 5 p’sukim ·

Commentary and Divrei Torah

List of Dates

Parashat Bereshit is read in the Diaspora on:

References

Parashat Bereshit from Sefaria.org
Sefaria, Inc.
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
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