Torah Reading: Parshat Bereishit
Next read on 18 October 2025
Summary
Bereshit, translated as "In the Beginning", is the first word in the first weekly Torah portion (Parsha in Hebrew) in the Jewish year's cycle of Biblical readings.
In Bereshit, also the name for the Torah's first Book (Genesis), God creates the Universe, the Earth, and Adam and Eve, the first human beings.
They sin, God expels them from the Garden of Eden, and Eve gives birth to Cain and Abel.
God punishes Cain after he murders Abel in a jealous rage. He despairs of humanity as successive generations continue to sin, and prepares to destroy the earth's inhabitants, except for Noah and his family.
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TORAH READING DATES
This Torah portion - Parshat Bereishit - will next be read on 18 October 2025
Read on these dates in following years: 10 October 2026 - 30 October 2027 - 14 October 2028
6 October 2029 - 26 October 2030 - 11 October 2031
2 October 2032 - 22 October 2033 - 7 October 2034
27 October 2035 - 18 October 2036 - 3 October 2037
23 October 2038
6 October 2029 - 26 October 2030 - 11 October 2031
2 October 2032 - 22 October 2033 - 7 October 2034
27 October 2035 - 18 October 2036 - 3 October 2037
23 October 2038
ABOUT THE TORAH READINGS:
The Torah - the Five Books of Moses - is read publicly in synagogues every Sabbath on an annual cycle.The cycle begins each year with Bereishit (Genesis), which is read on the Sabbath following the Simchat Torah festival.
Each of these weekly readings is known as a Parsha, or portion.
The Torah is also read in shorter segments of the Parsha on Mondays and Thursdays, and in selected sections on festivals.
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