Tazria
Sign in to savethumb|right|200px|The Poor Widow's Offering (illustration by Frederick Goodall) Tazria, Thazria, '''Thazri'a, Sazria, or Ki Tazria''' (, '[she] conceives', is the 13th word—and the first distinctive word—in the parashah, wherein the root word means "seed") is the 27th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Leviticus. The parashah deals with ritual impurity. It constitutes Leviticus 12:1–13:59. The parashah is made up of 3,667 Hebrew letters, 1,010 Hebrew words, 67 verses, and 128 lines in a Torah Scroll (, sefer Torah).
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49 sectionsContents
- Readings
- First reading—Leviticus 12:1–13:5
- Second reading—Leviticus 13:6–17
- Third reading—Leviticus 13:18–23
- Fourth reading—Leviticus 13:24–28
- Fifth reading—Leviticus 13:29–39
- Sixth reading—Leviticus 13:40–54
- Seventh reading—Leviticus 13:55–59
- Readings according to the triennial cycle
- In inner-biblical interpretation
- Leviticus chapter 12
- Leviticus chapter 13
- In early nonrabbinic interpretation
- Leviticus chapter 13
- In classical rabbinic interpretation
- Leviticus chapter 12
- Leviticus chapter 13
- In medieval Jewish interpretation
- Leviticus chapter 12
- Leviticus chapter 13
- In modern interpretation
- Leviticus chapters 12–15
- Leviticus chapter 12
- Leviticus chapter 13
- Commandments
- According to Maimonides
- According to Sefer ha-Chinuch
- In the liturgy
- The Weekly Maqam
- ''Haftarah''
- Summary
- Connection to the ''parashah''
- The ''haftarah'' in classical rabbinic interpretation
- On Shabbat HaChodesh
- Connection to the Special Sabbath
- Parashat Tazria–Metzora
- Summary
- Connection to the double ''parashah''
- On Shabbat Rosh Chodesh
- Notes
- Further reading
- Biblical
- Early nonrabbinic
- Classical rabbinic
- Medieval
- Modern
- External links
- Texts
- Commentaries
thumb|right|200px|The Poor Widow's Offering (illustration by Frederick Goodall) Tazria, Thazria, '''Thazri'a, Sazria, or Ki Tazria''' (, '[she] conceives', is the 13th word—and the first distinctive word—in the parashah, wherein the root word means "seed") is the 27th weekly Torah portion (, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Leviticus. The parashah deals with ritual impurity. It constitutes Leviticus 12:1–13:59. The parashah is made up of 3,667 Hebrew letters, 1,010 Hebrew words, 67 verses, and 128 lines in a Torah Scroll (, sefer Torah).
Jews read it the 27th or 28th Shabbat after Simchat Torah, generally in April or, rarely, in late March or early May. The lunisolar Hebrew calendar contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between 50 in common years and 54 or 55 in leap years. In leap years (e.g., 2024 and 2027), parashat Tazria is read independently. In common years (e.g., 2025, 2026, and 2028), parashat Tazria is combined with the parashah following it, Metzora, to help achieve the number of weekly readings needed.