Naso or Nasso (נָשֹׂא ‎— Hebrew for "take a census" or "lift up," the sixth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 35th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה ‎, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the second in the Book of Numbers. It constitutes Numbers 4:21–7:89.

Weekly Story for Naso: You Matter! Eight thousand, five hundred and eighty holy movers... The wayward wife (the husband's jealousy, the woman's assignation, the divine analogue)... The life of the Nazir (no grape products, long hair, no contact with the dead)...

Parashat Nasso: Summary God describes the service of the Gershon family of Levites; laws relating to the suspected adulteress and the nazirite are given; God tells Moses and Aaron the priestly blessing; the heads of tribes bring gifts to the Tabernacle.

Naso (“Take A Census”), the longest portion in the Torah, opens by detailing responsibilities of the Levites. It also describes laws of a woman suspected of adultery (sotah), the Nazirite, and the priestly blessing. The portion ends by listing the gifts that heads of tribes bring to the Mishkan (Tabernacle). [1]

The second reading from the book of Numbers and the thirty-fifth reading from the Torah is called Nasso, a word that literally means “lift up.” It comes from the first word of the second verse in Hebrew, which could literally be translated to say, “Lift up the heads of the sons of Gershon,” an idiomatic way of saying, “Make an ...

Naso (“Take A Census”), the longest portion in the Torah, opens by detailing responsibilities of the Levites. It also describes laws of a woman suspected of adultery (sotah), the Nazirite, and the priestly blessing. The portion ends by listing the gifts that heads of …

The name of the Parshah, "Naso," means "Count" and it is found in Numbers 4:22. Completing the headcount of the Children of Israel taken in the Sinai Desert, a total of 8,580 Levite men between the ages of 30 and 50 are counted in a tally of those who will be doing the actual work of transporting the Tabernacle.

Essays and Divrei Torah on Nasso - נשא, integrating Historical and Contextual approaches. | Torah portion- Numbers 4:21-7:89 - Haftarah- Judges 13:2–25

Overview of Nasso (“Accounting”) Numbers 4:21 – 7:89 Last week’s Portion gave us most of the logistics required to move the Tabernacle (along with 2.5 to 3 million people) through the desert.

The longest parsha of the Torah is the parsha of Nasso, which we read publicly this Shabat. A great part of its length is due to the repetition of the offerings and gifts of the leaders of the twelve tribes of Israel at the dedication of the Mishkan.