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| The weekly Torah portion (Hebrew: Parashat ha-Shavua,
popularly just parashah) is a section of the Torah (the Pentateuch)
read in Jewish services. In Judaism, the entire Torah is read
publicly over the course of a year, with one major portion read
each week in the Sabbath morning service.
Each weekly Torah portion usually takes its name from one of
the first unique word or words in the Hebrew text. Dating roughly
from the time of the Babylonian captivity (6th Century BCE),
public Torah reading mostly followed an annual cycle beginning
and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat
Torah, with the Torah divided into 54 weekly portions to
correspond to the lunisolar Hebrew
calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number
varying between leap years and regular years.
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