Parasha Calendar 2025–2030

Two time systems overlap on this page, and they are deliberately not synchronized with each other.

The Zadok year begins on 1 Aviv/Nisan (spring) — anchored directly in Exodus 12:2: "This month shall be for you the beginning of months." This year governs the moedim: Pesach, Bikkurim, Shavuot, Yom Teruah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. Canonical · Ex. 12:2

The weekly parasha reading cycle opens with B'reisheet right after Sukkot (autumn), and therefore runs straight through the middle of the Zadok year. This does have a real canonical seed: Nehemiah 8 describes Ezra beginning to read the Torah on the first day of the seventh month — 1 Tishri, the same day as Yom Teruah — and continuing that reading day by day through Sukkot (Neh. 8:2, 13–18). Deuteronomy 31:10–13 (Hakhel) likewise ties Torah reading explicitly to Sukkot. That a weekly rhythm of Torah reading was itself already old and established is confirmed by Acts 15:21. Canonical · Neh. 8:1–18 · Deut. 31:10–13 · Acts 15:21

What is not canonical: the exact division into 54 named weekly portions, the one-year cycle length, and the precise restart on Simchat Torah (the day after Sukkot). That is the later rabbinic elaboration of the canonical seed above. Rabbinic-Traditional

Layer	Status	Source
Concentrated Torah reading tied to the 7th month/Sukkot	Canonical	Deut. 31:10–13 · Neh. 8:1–18
Weekly rhythm of Torah reading as such	Canonical	Acts 15:21
Division into 54 named parashot · one-year length · restart at Simchat Torah	Rabbinic-Traditional	—

As a result, any displayed calendar cycle always covers the tail of one Zadok year and the start of the next — which is why "Month 7" appears twice in the table: once at B'reisheet/Noach (autumn, the end of the previous Zadok year), and once at Yom Teruah/Kippur/Sukkot (the start of the seventh month of the current Zadok year).