Weekly Torah Reading (Read by an AI Voice)

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I have been wanting to read the entire Chumash each week but there are no audio recordings of it. This is an AI version of my voice reading the Kehot Chumash from Chabad. It weaves in Rashi commentary to make it easier to understand. All readings can be found at https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4292310/jewish/Kehot-Chumash.htm Any errors in reading are due to the AI. I am not looking over recordings before posting so please listen with caution.

  1. Shemot - Terumah (Exodus 25:1–27:19)

    2D AGO

    Shemot - Terumah (Exodus 25:1–27:19)

    All recordings are created by copying Sefaria using the Kehot Chumash from Chabad english translation. The Text to Voice is using English AI... sorry for any weird speech. Please note that release schedule is based on the year 5786. Some weeks do not have a Parsha. You can always look up the current Parsha ⁠Here⁠. If you like the recording please consider donating to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Chabad⁠⁠⁠⁠ to help continue their effort to make resources like this more accessible to the Jewish population! Shemot Terumah (Exodus 25:1–27:19) God invites the people to bring freewill gifts—gold and silver, yarns of blue, purple, and crimson, fine linen and skins, wood and oil—so a sanctuary can be made “that I may dwell among them.” What follows is a detailed blueprint for the Mishkan, a portable meeting place where heaven touches earth. At its heart stands the Ark of the Covenant, overlaid with gold, with cherubim facing one another above the cover; there, between the wings, God’s voice will meet Moses. The table holds the bread of presence, signaling a continual offering of sustenance, and the seven-branched menorah is hammered from a single piece of pure gold, its cups shaped like almond blossoms to cast light inward. The portion then steps outward from holy core to holy space: curtains of fine linen embroidered with cherubim, layered coverings, and upright acacia boards fitted with silver sockets form the Tabernacle’s structure. A richly woven veil separates the Holy of Holies from the Holy, and a screen at the entrance marks the threshold. Finally, the bronze altar for burnt offerings, with its grating and horns, stands in the courtyard surrounded by linen hangings and pillars. Terumah shows holiness built from generous hearts and careful craftsmanship—beauty, order, and precise measurements turning everyday materials into a dwelling for the Divine. Themes to listen for: giving that becomes presence, light that reveals sacred work, and a holiness that radiates from the innermost center out into the camp.

    37 min
  2. Shemot - Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1–24:18)

    FEB 8

    Shemot - Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1–24:18)

    All recordings are created by copying Sefaria using the Kehot Chumash from Chabad english translation. The Text to Voice is using English AI... sorry for any weird speech. Please note that release schedule is based on the year 5786. Some weeks do not have a Parsha. You can always look up the current Parsha ⁠Here⁠. If you like the recording please consider donating to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Chabad⁠⁠⁠⁠ to help continue their effort to make resources like this more accessible to the Jewish population! Shemot Mishpatim (Exodus 21:1–24:18) Fresh from Sinai’s revelation, Israel receives a detailed civil and moral code that brings holiness into daily life. Laws address the treatment and release of the Hebrew bondsman; protections for the vulnerable; penalties for injury, theft, and negligence (including the goring ox and unsafe property); responsibilities of lenders and guardians; and the demand for truthful testimony and fair courts. The text insists on justice with compassion: do not oppress the stranger, widow, or orphan; return lost property; refuse bribes; give workers rest on Shabbat; let the land rest in the seventh year so the poor and animals may eat. Ritual rhythms also take shape: first fruits, prohibitions against idolatry and sorcery, the command not to cook a kid in its mother’s milk, and the three pilgrimage festivals—Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot. God promises an angel to lead Israel to the land if they heed His voice and dismantle idolatry. The covenant is then formally sealed: Moses writes the “Book of the Covenant,” builds an altar with twelve pillars, and young men offer sacrifices. The people respond, “We will do and we will hear,” as Moses sprinkles the blood of the covenant upon the altar and the people. Moses, Aaron, Nadav, Avihu, and seventy elders ascend, behold a vision of the Divine, and eat and drink. Finally, Moses climbs into the cloud atop Sinai for forty days and nights to receive the tablets and further instruction. Themes to listen for: justice that protects the powerless, responsibility for harm even without intent, sacred time as social equality, and a covenant embraced first by action and then by understanding.

    59 min
  3. Shemot - Yitro (Exodus 18:1–20:23)

    FEB 1

    Shemot - Yitro (Exodus 18:1–20:23)

    All recordings are created by copying Sefaria using the Kehot Chumash from Chabad english translation. The Text to Voice is using English AI... sorry for any weird speech. If you like the recording please consider donating to ⁠Chabad⁠ to help continue their effort to make resources like this more accessible to the Jewish population! Shemot Yitro (Exodus 18:1–20:23) Jethro (Yitro), Moses’ father-in-law and priest of Midian, arrives in the wilderness with Zipporah and Moses’ sons after hearing how God rescued Israel. He rejoices, offers sacrifices, and then observes Moses judging the people alone from morning to evening. Jethro counsels a sustainable system: teach the laws and appoint capable, God-fearing judges over thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens—leaders who handle routine disputes while Moses addresses the hardest cases. Strengthened by delegated justice, Moses sends Jethro home in peace. In the third month, Israel encamps before Mount Sinai. God offers a covenantal identity: “You have seen what I did to Egypt… I bore you on eagles’ wings… you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.” The people answer, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” After days of preparation and setting boundaries around the mountain, thunder, lightning, a dense cloud, and the shofar’s blast announce the revelation. God speaks the Ten Commandments: exclusive loyalty to God, the prohibition of idols, honoring God’s Name, Shabbat rest, honoring parents, and bans on murder, adultery, theft, false testimony, and coveting. Overwhelmed, the people stand at a distance while Moses draws near. The portion concludes with instructions for a simple earthen altar—no hewn stone, no steps—signaling that holiness depends not on grandeur but on faithful approach. Themes to listen for: leadership through shared responsibility, freedom anchored by law, and a nation formed not just by escape from Egypt but by a calling at Sinai.

    39 min
  4. Shemot - Beshalach (Exodus 13:17–17:16)

    JAN 25

    Shemot - Beshalach (Exodus 13:17–17:16)

    All recordings are created by copying Sefaria using the Kehot Chumash from Chabad english translation. The Text to Voice is using English AI... sorry for any weird speech. Please note that release schedule is based on the year 5786. Some weeks do not have a Parsha. You can always look up the current Parsha ⁠Here⁠. If you like the recording please consider donating to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Chabad⁠⁠⁠⁠ to help continue their effort to make resources like this more accessible to the Jewish population! Shemot Beshalach (Exodus 13:17–17:16) Israel marches out at last, guided by a pillar of cloud by day and fire by night, carrying Joseph’s bones and taking a longer route to avoid immediate war. Pharaoh gives chase; the people panic at the sea—until God parts the waters, Israel crosses on dry land, and the Egyptian chariots are swept away. On the far shore, Moses leads the Song at the Sea, while Miriam and the women answer with timbrels and dance, turning survival into praise and memory. Freedom brings its first tests in the wilderness. Bitter water at Marah is sweetened; at Elim, palms and springs offer respite. Manna and quail teach daily trust and the rhythm of Shabbat, with a double portion before the seventh day and none falling on it. At Rephidim, water flows from the rock amid doubt—Massah and Merivah—then Amalek attacks: Joshua fights in the valley while Moses, supported by Aaron and Hur, lifts his hands until victory. Themes to listen for: fear giving way to faith, song as a weapon against forgetfulness, Shabbat as freedom’s weekly anchor, and the shift from rescued slaves to a people learning covenantal responsibility.

    50 min
  5. Shemot - Bo (Exodus 10:1–13:16)

    JAN 18

    Shemot - Bo (Exodus 10:1–13:16)

    All recordings are created by copying Sefaria using the Kehot Chumash from Chabad english translation. The Text to Voice is using English AI... sorry for any weird speech. Please note that release schedule is based on the year 5786. Some weeks do not have a Parsha. You can always look up the current Parsha ⁠Here⁠. If you like the recording please consider donating to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Chabad⁠⁠⁠⁠ to help continue their effort to make resources like this more accessible to the Jewish population! ShemotBo (Exodus 10:1–13:16) Three final plagues break Egypt’s will. Locusts devour what hail spared; a palpable darkness falls for three days; and at midnight the firstborn die—judgment against Egypt’s gods and Pharaoh’s stubbornness. In the midst of dread, God inaugurates hope: this month becomes the first of the year; each household sets aside a lamb, slaughters it at twilight, marks doorposts with blood, and eats the meat with matzah and bitter herbs—ready to move, belts fastened and staffs in hand. Staying indoors as the destroyer passes, Israel is spared. Cries rise in Egypt; Pharaoh drives them out; a “mixed multitude” joins, and Israel departs in haste with dough not yet leavened. Bo establishes Passover as a story to be told across generations and a practice to be lived: removing chametz, eating matzah for seven days, and excluding outsiders from the korban unless they join the covenant. The portion closes with sanctifying every firstborn to God and binding memory to the body—“as a sign on your hand and as a remembrance between your eyes”—so that liberation is never merely recalled but worn, spoken, and taught. Themes to listen for: stubbornness that blinds vs. ritual that opens eyes, time reshaped by redemption, the home as a sanctuary of faith, and how memory becomes freedom’s nightly bread.

    48 min
  6. Shemot - Va'era (Exodus 6:2–9:35)

    JAN 11

    Shemot - Va'era (Exodus 6:2–9:35)

    All recordings are created by copying Sefaria using the Kehot Chumash from Chabad english translation. The Text to Voice is using English AI... sorry for any weird speech. Please note that release schedule is based on the year 5786. Some weeks do not have a Parsha. You can always look up the current Parsha ⁠Here⁠. If you like the recording please consider donating to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Chabad⁠⁠⁠⁠ to help continue their effort to make resources like this more accessible to the Jewish population! ShemotVa'era (Exodus 6:2–9:35) God reveals Himself to Moses with a deeper Name and a fourfold promise of redemption—“I will bring out, save, redeem, and take you as My people”—and pledges the land sworn to the patriarchs. The people, crushed by labor and “shortness of spirit,” struggle to hope. A brief genealogy situates Moses and Aaron within the tribe of Levi, then the mission resumes: they confront Pharaoh, Aaron’s staff becomes a serpent that swallows the magicians’ staffs, and the first seven plagues begin. The Nile turns to blood; frogs swarm the land; dust becomes lice that the magicians cannot replicate. With the fourth plague, swarms strike Egypt while Goshen is spared—God now “sets a distinction.” A devastating pestilence kills Egyptian livestock; boils afflict people and animals; and hail—thunder, fire, and ice—shatters crops and trees. Each time, Pharaoh’s heart hardens (or is hardened), mercy flares and then recedes, and the demand remains unchanged: “Let My people go that they may serve Me.” Themes to listen for: the power of God’s Name as faithful presence, hope rekindled under oppression, the unraveling of a false god (the Nile) and an empire’s control, and how judgment and mercy together prepare the way for freedom.

    37 min
  7. Shemot - Shemot (Exodus 1:1–6:1)

    JAN 4

    Shemot - Shemot (Exodus 1:1–6:1)

    All recordings are created by copying Sefaria using the Kehot Chumash from Chabad english translation. The Text to Voice is using English AI... sorry for any weird speech. Please note that release schedule is based on the year 5786. Some weeks do not have a Parsha. You can always look up the current Parsha ⁠Here⁠. If you like the recording please consider donating to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Chabad⁠⁠⁠⁠ to help continue their effort to make resources like this more accessible to the Jewish population! ShemotShemot (Exodus 1:1–6:1) A new Pharaoh rises “who did not know Joseph,” and Israel’s family becomes a nation in bondage. Pharaoh’s harsh decrees escalate from forced labor to infanticide, yet quiet courage pushes back: the midwives Shifra and Puah defy the king; a Levite mother hides her baby in a basket on the Nile; Pharaoh’s daughter draws him out and names him Moses. Grown, Moses intervenes against injustice, then flees to Midian after killing an Egyptian. There he marries Zipporah and tends flocks—until, at a burning bush that blazes without consuming, God calls his name and reveals a mission: return to Egypt and lead the Israelites to freedom. Moses hesitates—“Who am I?” “What is Your Name?” “I am not a man of words”—but God answers with signs, the promise “I Will Be with you,” and Aaron as spokesman. Back in Egypt, the first confrontation hardens Pharaoh’s heart and worsens the people’s burden as straw is withheld; despair spreads, and Moses cries out to God. The portion closes with a divine assurance: “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh.” Themes to listen for: civil disobedience born of moral courage, how personal calling emerges from exile and wonder, the power of God’s Name as presence, and the painful truth that liberation often begins with setbacks.

    53 min
  8. Bereshit - Vayechi (Genesis 47:28–50:26)

    12/28/2025

    Bereshit - Vayechi (Genesis 47:28–50:26)

    All recordings are created by copying Sefaria using the Kehot Chumash from Chabad english translation. The Text to Voice is using English AI... sorry for any weird speech. Please note that release schedule is based on the year 5786. Some weeks do not have a Parsha. You can always look up the current Parsha ⁠Here⁠. If you like the recording please consider donating to ⁠⁠⁠⁠Chabad⁠⁠⁠⁠ to help continue their effort to make resources like this more accessible to the Jewish population! Bereshit Vayechi (Genesis 47:28–50:26) Jacob spends his final seventeen years in Egypt and, sensing the end, makes Joseph swear to bury him in the Cave of Machpelah—returning the family’s story to its promised land. He blesses Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, crossing his hands to give the younger the firstborn blessing and adopting both grandsons into the tribal count. Jacob then gathers all twelve sons, offering vivid words that both bless and reveal their distinct destinies—leadership for Judah, priestly zeal for Levi to be tempered later, the seafaring future of Zebulun, the scholarly tents of Issachar, and more. After Jacob dies, an elaborate Egyptian mourning period and a royal funeral procession accompany his body back to Hebron for burial beside the patriarchs and matriarchs. Back in Egypt, Joseph’s brothers fear revenge. They plead for mercy, and Joseph answers with humility and faith: “Am I in God’s place? You intended me harm, but God intended it for good—to save many lives.” He provides for them, ensuring the family’s security. Joseph lives to see great-grandchildren, then charges his kin to carry his bones up from Egypt when God “surely remembers” them. With Joseph’s death and his coffin awaiting redemption, the book of Bereshit closes—turning a family saga into the seed of a nation and setting the stage for Exodus. Themes to listen for: legacy and return, blessing as both vision and responsibility, forgiveness that reframes the past, and hope carried forward as a promise to the future.

    44 min
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I have been wanting to read the entire Chumash each week but there are no audio recordings of it. This is an AI version of my voice reading the Kehot Chumash from Chabad. It weaves in Rashi commentary to make it easier to understand. All readings can be found at https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4292310/jewish/Kehot-Chumash.htm Any errors in reading are due to the AI. I am not looking over recordings before posting so please listen with caution.

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