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  • Ki Tisa
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  • Ki Tisa, Ki Tissa, Ki Thissa, or Ki Sisa (כי תשא — Hebrew for "when you take,” the sixth and seventh words, and first distinctive words in the parshah) is the 21st weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 30:11–34:35. Jews in the Diaspora read it the 21st Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in late February or March.
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  • Ki Tisa, Ki Tissa, Ki Thissa, or Ki Sisa (כי תשא — Hebrew for "when you take,” the sixth and seventh words, and first distinctive words in the parshah) is the 21st weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the ninth in the Book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 30:11–34:35. Jews in the Diaspora read it the 21st Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in late February or March. Jews also read the first part of the parshah, Exodus 30:11–16, regarding the half-shekel head tax, as the maftir Torah reading on the special Sabbath Shabbat Shekalim (February 20, 2009 (read with parshah Mishpatim); February 12, 2010 (read with parshah Mishpatim); March 4, 2011 (read with parshah Pekudei); February 17, 2012 (read with parshah Mishpatim); February 9, 2013 (read with parshah Mishpatim); and March 1, 2014 (read with parshah Pekudei)). Jews also read parts of the parshah, Exodus 32:11–14 and 34:1–10 as the Torah readings on the Fast of Gedaliah and the Tenth of Tevet. And Jews read another part of the parshah, Exodus 33:12–34:26, as the initial Torah reading on a Sabbath that falls on one of the intermediate days (Chol HaMoed) of Passover or Sukkot.