A Condensed Guide to the Weekly Torah Readings

by Leon Adato

Overview

Jewish tradition teaches that not even a single letter of the Torah is extraneous or un-necessary, that each and every letter is necessary and carries meaning. Since the Torah has 304,805 letters, which make up 79,847 words, which in turn form 4,845 verses, that is A LOT of meaning. In fact, tradition teaches us that the Torah is “black fire written on white fire” - that what is NOT written, what is between the lines, is as important as the words themselves.

The Edible Torah web site is designed to help people create a unique, weekly pot-luck Shabbat experience where friends and family are invited to bring food which matches the themes of the weekly Torah reading. While the Torah itself (or at least a good translation) is a key resource, having a 100,000-foot view of the flow of the narrative is also helpful.

This Guide should give you a handy amuse-bouche for what can be found in each weekly Torah reading. Each section provides a summary of the entire book of Torah, and then the name of each portion, the chapter and verses it covers, and the main events it describes. I've also included a section for the special readings associated with various holidays. Because that has everyone fahklumpt!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155963387
Publisher:	Leon Adato
Publication date:	02/24/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	276 KB

About the Author

In a career spanning three decades and four countries, Leon Adato has been an actor, electrician, carpenter, stage combat instructor, pest control technician, Sunday school teacher, and ASL interpreter. He also occasionally worked on computers.
Leon got his start teaching computer classes, worked his way up the IT food chain from desktop support to server support to desktop environment standardization engineer and onward, to systems monitoring, management, and automation. Along the way, he discovered a weird love for taking tests, and picked up an alphabet's worth of certifications, including WPCR, CNE, A+, MCP, MCSE, MCSE+I, CCNA, and SCP.
Leon spent almost 20 years honing his monitoring skills at companies that ranged from big (National City Bank) to bigger (Cardinal Health®) to ludicrous (Nestlé®), becoming proficient with a variety of tools and solutions along the way.