page_title: Behaalotecha
section_title: Readings
hierarchical_section_title: Behaalotecha / Readings
caption_attribution_description: Менора на арке Тита в Риме
context_page_description: Behaalotecha, Beha'alotecha, Beha'alothekha, or Behaaloscha is the 36th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Numbers. The parashah tells of the Menorah in the Tabernacle, the consecration of the Levites, the Second Passover, how a cloud and fire led the Israelites, the silver trumpets, how the Israelites set out on their journeys, the complaints of the Israelites, and how Miriam and Aaron questioned Moses. The parashah constitutes Numbers 8:1–12:16. It is made up of 7,055 Hebrew letters, 1,840 Hebrew words, 136 verses, and 240 lines in a Torah Scroll.
  Jews generally read it in late May or in June. As the parashah sets out some of the laws of Passover, Jews also read part of the parashah, Numbers 9:1–14, as the initial Torah reading for the fourth intermediate day of Passover.
context_section_description: In traditional Sabbath Torah reading, the parashah is divided into seven readings, or עליות, aliyot.
caption: the Menorah portrayed on the Arch of Titus
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