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Chumash

The five books of the Torah, the first five of Tanakh: BeReshit, Shemot, VaYikra, BeMidbar, and Devarim; in English, via Greek and Latin: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. As the Written Torah (Torah she-be-khetav), the words of these five books have a high degree of sanctity, in distinction to those books composed by prophecy (Neviim or Prophets) and by ruach ha-kodesh (Ketuvim or Writings). Printed Chumashim are generally divided by parashah followed by the haftarah, and sometimes include the five megillot as well. Many will include the Targum and Rashi’s commentary. On the annual cycle, today the most common reading cycle, the entire Chumash is read every year. It is divided into 54 parshiyyot, some of which are conventionally doubled in most years to allow for them to be read from one Simchat Torah to the next.

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