page_title: Re'eh
section_title: Deuteronomy chapter 14
hierarchical_section_title: Re'eh / In early nonrabbinic interpretation / Deuteronomy chapter 14
caption_attribution_description: Guardian angel
context_page_description: Re'eh, Reeh, R'eih, or Ree is the 47th weekly Torah portion in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the fourth in the Book of Deuteronomy. It constitutes Deuteronomy 11:26–16:17. In the parashah, Moses set before the Israelites the choice between blessing and curse. Moses instructed the Israelites in the laws that they were to observe, including the law of a single centralized place of worship. Moses warned against following other gods and their prophets and set forth the laws of kashrut, tithes, the Sabbatical year, the Hebrew slave, firstborn animals, and the three pilgrim festivals.
  The parashah is the longest weekly Torah portion in the Book of Deuteronomy, and is made up of 7,442 Hebrew letters, 1,932 Hebrew words, 126 verses, and 258 lines in a Torah Scroll. Jews generally read it in August or early September. Jews read part of the parashah, Deuteronomy 15:19–16:17, which addresses the Three Pilgrim Festivals, as the initial Torah reading on the eighth day of Passover when it falls on a weekday and on the second day of Shavuot when it falls on a weekday.
context_section_description: Professor Isaiah Gafni of Hebrew University of Jerusalem noted that in the Book of Tobit, the protagonist Tobit observed the dietary laws.
caption: A Guardian Angel (18th Century painting)
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