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Korach (parsha)


Korach or Korah (קֹרַח‎ – Hebrew for the name "Korah," which in turn means "baldness, ice, hail, or frost," the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 38th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה‎, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fifth in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 16:1–18:32. The parashah is made up of 5,325 Hebrew letters, 1,409 Hebrew words, and 95 verses, and can occupy about 184 lines in a Torah Scroll (סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה‎, Sefer Torah).

Jews generally read it in June or July.

In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות‎, aliyot.


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