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| - Tazria, Thazria, Thazri’a, Sazria, or Ki Tazria’ (תזריע — Hebrew for "she conceives,” the 13th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 27th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 12:1–13:59. Jews in the Diaspora read it the 27th or 28th Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in April.
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| - Tazria, Thazria, Thazri’a, Sazria, or Ki Tazria’ (תזריע — Hebrew for "she conceives,” the 13th word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 27th weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 12:1–13:59. Jews in the Diaspora read it the 27th or 28th Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in April. The lunisolar Hebrew calendar contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years. In leap years (which have 54 or 55 weeks—for example, 2011, 2014, and 2016), parshah Tazria is read separately. In non-leap years (for example, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, and 2017) there are fewer than 54 weeks, and parshah Tazria is combined with the next parshah, Metzora, to help achieve the needed number of weekly readings. (Kitsur Shulchan Arukh. Edited by Dovid Feldman, Table 6, pp. 218-19.)
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