Weekly Torah Portion Parashat Behar
and Parasha Bechukotai
May 9, 2026
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This apple tree symbolizes plenty in the land.
A shofar is being blown on a backdrop of Shabbat candles symbolizing the statutes and commandments given at Mount Sinai.
Parasha Behar and Parasha Bechukotai are read together on regular years and separately on leap year.
Parashat Behar, “On The Mountain” בְּהַר, and Parasha Bechukotai, “In My Laws”, בְּחֻקֹּתַי Leviticus 25:1-27:34, are the last two Torah portions in Leviticus, the 3rd Book of the five Books of the Bible, and the 32nd and 33rd weekly portions in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading which begins on Rosh Ha Shana, the Jewish New Year.
Parashat Behar, “On The Mountain”, explains the laws Moses received on Mount Sinai relating to the land the Israelites are to receive; giving the land a rest every seventh year; and the fiftieth year, Jubilee year, when debts are erased and slaves set free.
Parasha Bechukotai, “In My Laws”, discusses the statutes and laws received at Mount Sinai, and the blessings to be expected by those upholding them.
Parashat Behar-Bechukotai Tallit
Band I Parasha Bechukotai
This apple tree symbolizes plenty in the land.
Translation of Hebrew (Leviticus 26:3-4):
“If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them; (4) then I will give you rains in their season, and the land shall yield her produce, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.”
Band I Parasha Behar
A shofar is being blown on a backdrop of Shabbat candles symbolizing the statutes and commandments given at Mount Sinai.
Translation of Hebrew (Leviticus 25:19):
"Wherefore ye shall do My statutes, and keep Mine ordinances and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety."
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