What days of the week is the Torah reading?
Occasions when the Torah is read The first segment (of seven) of each weekly parashah from the Torah is read during the morning services on Mondays and Thursdays. The entire weekly parashah is read on Saturdays. Most major and minor festival and fast days have a unique Torah reading devoted to that day.
What do you call the person who reads the Torah?
According to Orthodox Judaism, the first oleh (person called to read) is a kohen and the second a levi; the remaining olim are yisr’elim — Jews who are neither kohen nor levi.
How often is the Torah read?
The Torah scrolls are taken out from the Ark (Aron ha kodesh) and portions read in the synagogue three times each week. On Mondays and Thursdays small sections are read. The main reading is on the morning of Shabbat (Sabbath). Over the course of the year the whole scroll is read in sequence.
How many times a week is the Torah read?
Traditionally, the Torah is read four times a week in the synagogue: at the Sabbath (Saturday) morning and afternoon services and in the morning service on Mondays and Thursdays. Additional readings may occur on high holy days such as Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) or Rosh Hashana (New Year).
Is haftarah read on weekdays?
It is only read in non-leap years when the preceding Rosh Hashanah was a Thursday and the following Passover is a Sunday, in leap years when the preceding Rosh Hashanah was a Thursday and the following Passover is a Tuesday or in leap years when the following Passover is a Sunday or coincides with the Sabbath.)
What does kedoshim mean in Hebrew?
holy ones
Kedoshim, K’doshim, or Qedoshim (קְדֹשִׁים — Hebrew for “holy ones,” the 14th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 30th weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the seventh in the Book of Leviticus.