page_title: Naso (parsha)
section_title: Modern
hierarchical_section_title: Naso (parsha) / Further reading / Modern
caption_attribution_description: English: en:Samuel David Luzzatto ("Shadal"), d.1865
context_page_description: Naso or Nasso is the 35th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 4:21–7:89. The parashah addresses priestly duties, camp purification, restitution for wrongs committed, the wife accused of unfaithfulness, the nazirite, the Priestly Blessing, and consecration of the Tabernacle. Naso has the largest number of letters, words, and verses of any of the 54 weekly Torah portions. The parashah is made up of 8,632 Hebrew letters, 2,264 Hebrew words, 176 verses, and 311 lines in a Torah Scroll.
  Jews generally read it in late May or June, typically on the first Shabbat after Shavuot. As this parashah includes the story of the consecration of the Tabernacle, Jews also read parts of it as Torah readings on the eight days of Hanukkah, when they commemorate the reconsecration of the Temple in Jerusalem.
context_section_description: Isaac Abravanel. Commentary on the Torah. Italy, between 1492–1509. In, e.g., Abarbanel: Selected Commentaries on the Torah: Volume 4: Bamidbar/Numbers. Translated and annotated by Israel Lazar, pages 45–71. Brooklyn: CreateSpace, 2015. ISBN 978-1508721437.
  Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno. Commentary on the Torah. Venice, 1567. In, e.g., Sforno: Commentary on the Torah. Translation and explanatory notes by Raphael Pelcovitz, pages 660–81. Brooklyn: Mesorah Publications, 1997. ISBN 0-89906-268-7.
  Moshe Alshich. Commentary on the Torah. Safed, circa 1593. In, e.g., Moshe Alshich. Midrash of Rabbi Moshe Alshich on the Torah. Translated and annotated by Eliyahu Munk, volume 3, pages 801–13. New York, Lambda Publishers, 2000. ISBN 965-7108-13-6.
  Avraham Yehoshua Heschel. Commentaries on the Torah. Cracow, Poland, mid 17th century. Compiled as Chanukat HaTorah. Edited by Chanoch Henoch Erzohn. Piotrkow, Poland, 1900. In Avraham Yehoshua Heschel. Chanukas HaTorah: Mystical Insights of Rav Avraham Yehoshua Heschel on Chumash. Translated by Avraham Peretz Friedman, pages 243–46. Southfield, Michigan: Targum Press/Feldheim Publishers, 2004. ISBN 1-56871-303-7.
  Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, Review and Conclusion. England, 1651. Reprint edited by C. B. Macpherson, page 725. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Classics, 1982. ISBN 0-14-043195-0.
  Shabbethai Bass. Sifsei Chachamim. Amsterdam, 1680. In, e.g., Sefer Bamidbar: From the Five Books of the Torah: Chumash: Targum Okelos: Rashi: Sifsei Chachamim: Yalkut: Haftaros, translated by Avrohom Y. Davis, pages 54–129. Lakewood Township, New Jersey: Metsudah Publications, 2013.
  Chaim ibn Attar. Ohr ha-Chaim. Venice, 1742. In Chayim ben Attar. Or Hachayim: Commentary on the Torah. Translated by Eliyahu Munk, volume 4, pages 1358–82. Brooklyn: Lambda Publishers, 1999. ISBN 965-7108-12-8.
  Samuel David Luzzatto (Shadal). Commentary on the Torah. Padua, 1871. In, e.g., Samuel David Luzzatto. Torah Commentary. Translated and annotated by Eliyahu Munk, volume 3, pages 1018–28. New York: Lambda Publishers, 2012. ISBN 978-965-524-067-2.
  Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter. Sefat Emet. Góra Kalwaria (Ger), Poland, before 1906. Excerpted in The Language of Truth: The Torah Commentary of Sefat Emet. Translated and interpreted by Arthur Green, pages 225–27. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1998. ISBN 0-8276-0650-8. Reprinted 2012. ISBN 0-8276-0946-9.
  Abraham Isaac Kook. The Lights of Penitence, 5:7. 1925. In Abraham Isaac Kook: the Lights of Penitence, the Moral Principles, Lights of Holiness, Essays, Letters, and Poems. Translated by Ben Zion Bokser, page 55. Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press 1978. ISBN 0-8091-2159-X.
  Alexander Alan Steinbach. Sabbath Queen: Fifty-four Bible Talks to the Young Based on Each Portion of the Pentateuch, pages 110–13. New York: Behrman's Jewish Book House, 1936.
  Julius H. Greenstone. Numbers: With Commentary: The Holy Scriptures, pages 33–79. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1939. Reprinted by Literary Licensing, 2011. ISBN 1258107201.
  I. Mendelsohn. "The Family in the Ancient Near East." Biblical Archaeologist, volume 11 (number 2) (1948).
  Michael Fishbane. “Accusations of Adultery: A Study of Law and Scribal Practice in Numbers 5:11–31.” Hebrew Union College Annual, volume 45 (1974): pages 25–45.
  Herbert C. Brichto. "The Case of the Śōṭā and a Reconsideration of Biblical 'Law.'" Hebrew Union College Annual, volume 46 (1975): pages 55–70.
  Jacob Milgrom. Cult and Conscience: The Asham and the Priestly Doctrine of Repentance. E.J. Brill, 1976. ISBN 9004044760.
  Roland de Vaux. "Was There an Israelite Amphictyony?" Biblical Archaeology Review, volume 3 (number 2) (June 1977).
  Rebecca T. Alpert. “The Sotah: Rabbinic Attitutdes and the Adulterous Wife.” In Jewish Civilization: Essays and Studies: Jewish Law: Volume 2. Edited by Ronald A. Brauner, pages 33–41. Philadelphia: Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, 1981. ISSN 0191-3034.
  Jacob Milgrom. "The Case of the Suspected Adulteress, Numbers 5:11–31: Redaction and Meaning." In The Creation of Sacred Literature. Edited by Richard E
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