Parashat Vayakhel / פרשת ויקהל

Next read in the Diaspora on 13 March 2021. Parashat Vayakhel is the 22nd weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading.

Torah Portion: Exodus 35:1 - 38:20  

Special Readings

On Shabbat Parah - 22 March 2025
maf: Numbers 19:1-22 (22 p'sukim)

On Shabbat Shekalim - 02 March 2019, 26 February 2022, 09 March 2024, 06 March 2027, 02 March 2030
maf: Exodus 30:11-16 (6 p'sukim)

Haftarah for Ashkenazim: I Kings 7:40 - 7:50
Haftarah for Sephardim: I Kings 7:13 - 7:26

When Parashat Vayakhel coincides with a special Shabbat, we read a different Haftarah:

• 02 March 2019 - Shabbat Shekalim / II Kings 12:1 - 12:17
• 26 February 2022 - Shabbat Shekalim / II Kings 12:1 - 12:17
• 09 March 2024 - Shabbat Shekalim / II Kings 12:1 - 12:17
• 22 March 2025 - Shabbat Parah / Ezekiel 36:16 - 36:38
• 06 March 2027 - Shabbat Shekalim / II Kings 12:1 - 12:17
• 02 March 2030 - Shabbat Shekalim / II Kings 12:1 - 12:17

List of Dates

Parashat Vayakhel is read in the Diaspora on:

• 02 March 2019
• 21 March 2020 - Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
• 13 March 2021 - Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
• 26 February 2022
• 18 March 2023 - Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
• 09 March 2024
• 22 March 2025
• 14 March 2026 - Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
• 06 March 2027
• 25 March 2028 - Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
• 10 March 2029 - Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
• 02 March 2030
• 22 March 2031 - Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei
• 06 March 2032 - Parashat Vayakhel-Pekudei

Triennial readings for previous and future cycles

References

The Chumash: The Stone Edition (Artscroll Series)

Nosson Scherman, Mesorah Publications, 1993

A Complete Triennial System for Reading the Torah

Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly