Weekly reading
This week’s Torah portion
The Torah is read through in public once a year, one portion each Shabbat. Here is the one for the coming Shabbat.
Saturday, August 15, 2026
Shoftim שׁוֹפְטִים
Deuteronomy 16:18-21:9
- Aliyah 1
- Deuteronomy 16:18–17:13
- Aliyah 2
- Deuteronomy 17:14–17:20
- Aliyah 3
- Deuteronomy 18:1–18:5
- Aliyah 4
- Deuteronomy 18:6–18:13
- Aliyah 5
- Deuteronomy 18:14–19:13
- Aliyah 6
- Deuteronomy 19:14–20:9
- Aliyah 7
- Deuteronomy 20:10–21:9
- Aliyah M
- Deuteronomy 21:7–21:9
- Haftarah
- Isaiah 51:12–52:12
The fifty-four portions
In the order they are read, from Bereshit to Vezot Haberakhah.
- Bereshit
- Noach
- Lech-Lecha
- Vayera
- Chayei Sara
- Toldot
- Vayetzei
- Vayishlach
- Vayeshev
- Miketz
- Vayigash
- Vayechi
- Shemot
- Vaera
- Bo
- Beshalach
- Yitro
- Mishpatim
- Terumah
- Tetzaveh
- Ki Tisa
- Vayakhel
- Pekudei
- Vayikra
- Tzav
- Shmini
- Tazria
- Metzora
- Achrei Mot
- Kedoshim
- Emor
- Behar
- Bechukotai
- Bamidbar
- Nasso
- Beha'alotcha
- Sh'lach
- Korach
- Chukat
- Balak
- Pinchas
- Matot
- Masei
- Devarim
- Vaetchanan
- Eikev
- Re'eh
- Shoftim
- Ki Teitzei
- Ki Tavo
- Nitzavim
- Vayeilech
- Ha'azinu
- Vezot Haberakhah
Why this page is on Never Forget
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The Hebrew calendar was already in the app: a saved birth date gets its Hebrew correspondence, its month and its tribe. Showing the portion for the coming Shabbat only meant applying the same machinery to a practice rather than to a deadline.
A cycle of one year
The cycle opens and closes at Simchat Torah: the last lines of Deuteronomy are read and the first of Genesis begun again at once, on the same day.
Fifty-four portions against a number of Shabbatot that varies from year to year: the shortest years read two at once at seven appointed places, which is where doubled names like Matot-Masei come from.
Common questions
- What is a parasha?
- It is the weekly portion of the Torah, read publicly on Shabbat morning. The whole text is divided into fifty-four portions, read in order through the year.
- What is the haftarah?
- A passage from the Prophets read after the Torah portion, chosen for how it answers it. The Ashkenazi and Sephardic rites sometimes keep different passages, in which case both are given.
- Why do some weeks carry two names?
- Because two portions are read that Shabbat. The number of Shabbatot available changes from year to year, and seven pairs are appointed to absorb the difference.
- Is the reading the same in Israel as elsewhere?
- Not always. The second day of a festival is not kept in Israel, which shifts the reading for a few weeks in some years, until a pair of doubled portions brings the two calendars back into step.
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