This week's parasha.

This Shabbat's parasha is shown at the top of this page with its date. It follows the Diaspora calendar; on some weeks after a holiday, Israel is one parasha ahead, and both calendars are shown on each parasha's page.

Fifty-four, from Bereshit to V'Zot HaBerachah, to read the whole Torah in a year. Since the year has fewer ordinary Shabbatot, in some years, some are read two together: Vayakhel and Pekudei, Tazria and Metzora, Achrei Mot and Kedoshim, Behar and Bechukotai, Chukat and Balak, Matot and Masei, Nitzavim and Vayeilech.

Each parasha is divided into seven aliyot, the seven people called up to the Torah on Shabbat morning. The maftir repeats the last verses before the haftarah is read.

Outside Israel, Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot last one day longer. When that extra day falls on Shabbat, the holiday portion is read there while Israel already reads the next parasha. The gap is closed later by a double reading in the Diaspora.

The Zohar, the founding text of Kabbalah, is arranged in the order of the parashiot. Each page lists the topics the Zohar treats on that parasha; the full Aramaic text is in the Zion Torah app.