First day of Chol Hamoed. Second day of Chol Hamoed. Third day of Chol Hamoed. Fourth day of Chol Hamoed. Shabbos Chol Hamoed

FIRST DAY OF CHOL HAMOED

Two Torah scrolls are removed from the Ark. If the first day of Chol Hamoed occurs on Shabbos, the Torah reading for Shabbos Chol Hamoed is read, page 506. If a weekday, the following is read. Three men are called for aliyos in the first scroll, and the fourth aliyah is read from the second scroll.

Torah reading for the first day of Chol Hamoed Pesach. In the first Torah scroll, three aliyos are read.

Blessing before Aliyah

Bless the L‑rd who is blessed. Blessed be the L‑rd who is blessed for all eternity. Blessed be the L‑rd who is blessed for all eternity. Blessed are You, L‑rd our G‑d, King of the universe, who has chosen us from among all the nations and given us His Torah. Blessed are You, L‑rd, who gives the Torah.

Blessing after Aliyah

Blessed are You, L‑rd our G‑d, King of the universe, who has given us a Torah of truth and planted eternal life within us. Blessed are You, L‑rd, who gives the Torah.

Exodus, chapter 13

Kohen

1 The L‑rd spoke to Moses, saying:

2 "Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first issue of every womb among the children of Israel, of man and of beast; it is Mine."

3 Moses said to the people: "Remember this day on which you went out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, for with a strong hand the L‑rd brought you out from here; and no leaven shall be eaten.

4 Today you are going out, in the month of spring.

Levi

5 And it shall be, when the L‑rd brings you to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall perform this service in this month.

6 Seven days you shall eat matzos, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival to the L‑rd.

7 Matzos shall be eaten throughout the seven days; no leaven shall be seen with you, and no leavening shall be seen with you in all your borders.

8 And you shall tell your son on that day, saying: 'It is because of this that the L‑rd did for me when I went out of Egypt.'

9 And it shall be for you as a sign upon your hand and as a reminder between your eyes, so that the Torah of the L‑rd may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand the L‑rd brought you out of Egypt.

10 You shall keep this statute at its appointed time, from year to year.

Third aliyah

11 And it shall be, when the L‑rd brings you to the land of the Canaanite, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

12 that you shall set apart for the L‑rd every first issue of the womb; and every firstling cast by an animal that you have, the males belong to the L‑rd.

13 Every firstling of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you shall break its neck; and every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.

14 And it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' you shall say to him: 'With a strong hand the L‑rd brought us out of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, that the L‑rd killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of man to the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice to the L‑rd every male first issue of the womb, and every firstborn of my sons I redeem.'

16 And it shall be for a sign upon your hand and for tefillin between your eyes, for with a strong hand the L‑rd brought us out of Egypt."

Place the second scroll on the bimah next to the first scroll, then raise the first scroll. PLEASE RISE FOR THE LIFTING OF THE FIRST TORAH AND SAY:

65 This is the Torah that Moses set before the children of Israel. It is a tree of life to those who hold fast to it, and those who support it are fortunate. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Length of days is in its right hand; in its left hand, wealth and honor. The L‑rd desired, for the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and glorious.

In the second Torah scroll, one aliyah is read, which is the fourth.

Numbers, chapter 28

19 You shall offer a fire-offering, a burnt-offering to the L‑rd: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year; they shall be without blemish for you.

20 And their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths [of an ephah] for each bull and two tenths for the ram you shall offer;

21 one tenth for each lamb you shall offer, for the seven lambs;

22 and one goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.

23 You shall offer these besides the morning burnt-offering, which is for the continual burnt-offering.

24 Like these you shall offer daily for seven days, food of a fire-offering, a pleasing fragrance to the L‑rd; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering and its libation.

25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.

SECOND DAY OF CHOL HAMOED

Two Torah scrolls are removed from the Ark. If the second day of Chol Hamoed occurs on Sunday, the Torah reading for the first day of Chol Hamoed is read, page 502. If Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday, the following is read. Three men are called for aliyos in the first scroll, and the fourth aliyah is read from the second scroll.

Torah reading for the second day of Chol Hamoed Pesach. In the first Torah scroll, three aliyos are read.

Kohen

Exodus, chapter 22

24 When you lend money to My people, to the poor person who is with you, do not act toward him as a creditor; do not impose interest upon him.

25 If you take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun sets;

26 for it is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And it shall be, when he cries out to Me, that I will listen, for I am gracious.

Levi

27 You shall not curse a judge, and you shall not curse a leader among your people.

28 You shall not delay [the offering of] your first ripe produce and your first juices. The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.

29 So shall you do with your oxen and your sheep: seven days it shall be with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.

30 You shall be holy people to Me; you shall not eat flesh torn in the field; you shall throw it to the dog.

Exodus, chapter 23

1 You shall not accept a false report; do not join hands with a wicked person to be a corrupt witness.

2 Do not follow the majority to do evil; and do not testify in a dispute so as to lean after the majority to pervert [justice].

3 And do not favor a poor man in his dispute.

4 If you come upon your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him.

5 If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, would you refrain from helping him? You shall surely help him [unload it].

Yisrael

6 You shall not pervert the judgment of your needy person in his dispute.

7 Keep far from a false matter; and do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.

8 You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the righteous.

9 You shall not oppress a stranger; you know the feelings of the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce;

11 but in the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, and the needy of your people shall eat, and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. So shall you do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

12 Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant and the stranger may be refreshed.

13 Be careful in all that I have said to you; do not mention the name of other gods; it shall not be heard on your lips.

14 Three times in the year you shall celebrate a festival to Me.

15 You shall keep the Festival of Matzos: seven days you shall eat matzos, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of spring, for in it you went out of Egypt; and none shall appear before Me empty-handed.

16 And the Festival of the Harvest, the first fruits of your labor that you sow in the field; and the Festival of the Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors from the field.

17 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Master, the L‑rd.

18 You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, and the fat of My festival offering shall not remain overnight until morning.

19 The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the L‑rd your G‑d. You shall not cook a kid in its mother's milk.

Second scroll

PLEASE RISE FOR THE LIFTING OF THE FIRST TORAH AND SAY:

This is the Torah which Moshe set before the Children of Israel. It is a tree of life for those who hold fast to it, and those who support it are fortunate. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Long life is in its right hand, and in its left are riches and honor. The L‑rd desired, for the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and glorious.

In the second Torah scroll, one aliyah is read.

Fourth aliyah

Numbers, chapter 28

19 You shall offer a fire-offering, a burnt-offering to the L‑rd: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year; they shall be without blemish for you.

20 And their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths [of an ephah] for each bull and two tenths for the ram you shall offer;

21 one tenth for each lamb you shall offer, for the seven lambs;

22 and one goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.

23 You shall offer these besides the morning burnt-offering, which is for the continual burnt-offering.

24 Like these you shall offer daily for seven days, food of a fire-offering, a pleasing fragrance to the L‑rd; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering and its libation.

25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.

THIRD DAY OF CHOL HAMOED

Two Torah scrolls are removed from the Ark. If the third day of Chol Hamoed occurs on Shabbos, the Torah reading for Shabbos Chol Hamoed is read, page 506. If Monday, the reading for the second day of Chol Hamoed is read, page 503. If Wednesday or Thursday, the following is read. Three men are called for aliyos in the first scroll, and the fourth aliyah is read from the second scroll.

Torah reading for the third day of Chol Hamoed Pesach. In the first Torah scroll, three aliyos are read.

Kohen

Exodus, Chapter 34

1. The L‑rd said to Moshe: Carve for yourself two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write upon the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

2. Be ready by the morning; in the morning you shall go up to Mount Sinai and stand there before Me, on the top of the mountain.

3. No man shall go up with you, nor shall any man be seen anywhere on the mountain; even the sheep and the cattle shall not graze facing that mountain.

Levi

4. So he carved two tablets of stone like the first ones. Moshe rose early in the morning and went up to Mount Sinai, as the L‑rd had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

5. The L‑rd descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and he called out in the Name of the L‑rd.

6 The L‑rd passed before him and proclaimed: L‑rd, L‑rd, benevolent G‑d, merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in kindness and truth;

7 He preserves kindness for thousands [of generations], forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin; yet He does not wholly clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children and upon children's children, upon the third and the fourth generations.

8. Moshe hastened, bowed his head to the ground and prostrated himself.

9 And he said: If I have now found favor in Your eyes, my L‑rd, let my L‑rd go in our midst, for it is a stiff‑necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us as Your inheritance.

And He said: "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will perform wonders such as have not been wrought in all the earth or among any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the L‑rd, how awesome it is, that which I do with you."

11 Observe what I command you this day: behold, I am driving out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.

12 Beware lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are coming, lest it become a snare in your midst.

13 Rather, you shall tear down their altars, shatter their pillars, and cut down their sacred trees.

14 For you shall not bow down to another god, for the L‑rd, whose Name is Jealous, is a jealous G‑d.

15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they stray after their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you and you eat of his sacrifice;

16 and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters stray after their gods and lead your sons astray after their gods.

17 You shall not make molten gods for yourself.

Third aliyah

18 You shall keep the Festival of Matzos: seven days you shall eat matzos, as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of spring, for in the month of spring you went out of Egypt.

19 Every first issue of the womb is Mine, and of all your livestock you shall set apart the males, the firstling of ox and of sheep.

20 The firstling of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, and if you do not redeem it, you shall break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before Me empty-handed.

21 Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

22 You shall observe for yourself the Festival of Weeks, of the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of the Ingathering at the turn of the year.

23 Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Master, the L‑rd, the G‑d of Israel.

24 For I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your borders, and no man will covet your land when you go up to appear before the L‑rd your G‑d three times in the year.

25 You shall not offer the blood of My sacrifice with leaven, and the offering of the Festival of Pesach shall not remain overnight until morning.

26 The first of the first fruits of your land you shall bring to the house of the L‑rd your G‑d. You shall not cook a kid in its mother's milk.

Second scroll

PLEASE RISE FOR THE LIFTING OF THE FIRST TORAH AND SAY:

This is the Torah which Moshe set before the Children of Israel. It is a tree of life for those who hold fast to it, and those who support it are fortunate. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Long life is in its right hand, and in its left are riches and honor. The L‑rd desired, for the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and glorious.

In the second Torah scroll, one aliyah is read.

Fourth aliyah

Numbers, chapter 28

19 You shall offer a fire-offering, a burnt-offering to the L‑rd: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year; they shall be without blemish for you.

20 And their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths [of an ephah] for each bull and two tenths for the ram you shall offer;

21 one tenth for each lamb you shall offer, for the seven lambs;

22 and one goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.

23 You shall offer these besides the morning burnt-offering, which is for the continual burnt-offering.

24 Like these you shall offer daily for seven days, food of a fire-offering, a pleasing fragrance to the L‑rd; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering and its libation.

25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.

FOURTH DAY OF CHOL HAMOED

Two Torah scrolls are removed from the Ark. Three men are called for aliyos in the first scroll, and the fourth aliyah is read from the second scroll.

Torah reading for the fourth day of Chol Hamoed Pesach. In the first Torah scroll, three aliyos are read.

Numbers, chapter 9

Kohen

1 The L‑rd spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the second year after their going out of the land of Egypt, in the first month, saying:

2 "Let the children of Israel offer the Pesach sacrifice at its appointed time.

3 On the fourteenth day of this month, in the afternoon, you shall offer it at its appointed time; in accordance with all its statutes and all its ordinances you shall offer it."

4 Moses spoke to the children of Israel, to offer the Pesach sacrifice.

5 And they offered the Pesach sacrifice in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the afternoon, in the wilderness of Sinai; in accordance with all that the L‑rd had commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel do.

Levi

6 But there were men who were ritually impure through a human corpse, and they could not offer the Pesach sacrifice on that day; and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day.

7 Those men said to him: "We are impure through a human corpse; why should we be held back from bringing the offering of the L‑rd at its appointed time among the children of Israel?"

8 Moses said to them: "Wait, and I will hear what the L‑rd will command concerning you."

Third aliyah

9 The L‑rd spoke to Moses, saying:

10 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: If any man of you or of your future generations is impure through a corpse, or is on a distant journey, he shall still offer a Pesach sacrifice to the L‑rd.

11 In the second month, on the fourteenth day, in the afternoon, they shall offer it; they shall eat it with matzos and bitter herbs.

12 They shall leave none of it until morning, and they shall not break any of its bones; in accordance with all the statute of the Pesach sacrifice they shall offer it.

13 But the man who is pure and was not on a journey, and refrains from offering the Pesach sacrifice, that soul shall be cut off from its people; because he did not bring the offering of the L‑rd at its appointed time, that man shall bear his sin.

14 And if a stranger dwells among you and would offer a Pesach sacrifice to the L‑rd, according to the statute of the Pesach sacrifice and its ordinance, so shall he do; there shall be one statute for you, both for the stranger and for the native of the land."

PLEASE RISE FOR THE LIFTING OF THE FIRST TORAH AND SAY:

This is the Torah which Moshe set before the Children of Israel. It is a tree of life for those who hold fast to it, and those who support it are fortunate. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Long life is in its right hand, and in its left are riches and honor. The L‑rd desired, for the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and glorious.

In the second Torah scroll, the fourth aliyah is read.

Numbers, chapter 28

19 You shall offer a fire-offering, a burnt-offering to the L‑rd: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs in their first year; they shall be without blemish for you.

20 And their meal-offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths [of an ephah] for each bull and two tenths for the ram you shall offer;

21 one tenth for each lamb you shall offer, for the seven lambs;

22 and one goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you.

23 You shall offer these besides the morning burnt-offering, which is for the continual burnt-offering.

24 Like these you shall offer daily for seven days, food of a fire-offering, a pleasing fragrance to the L‑rd; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt-offering and its libation.

25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no work of labor.

TORAH READING FOR SHABBOS CHOL HAMOED PESACH

Two Torah scrolls are removed from the Ark, and seven men are called for aliyos. The following section is read in the first Torah scroll.

Kaddish after the Reading of the Torah

Exalted and hallowed be His great Name. (Amen) Throughout the world which He has created according to His will. May He establish His kingship, bring forth His redemption and hasten the coming of His Moshiach. (Amen) In your lifetime and in your days and in the lifetime of the entire House of Israel, speedily and soon, and say, Amen. (Amen)

May His great Name be blessed forever and to all eternity. Blessed and praised, glorified, exalted and extolled, honored, adored and lauded be the Name of the Holy One, blessed be He. (Amen) Beyond all the blessings, hymns, praises and consolations that are uttered in the world; and say, Amen. (Amen)

Musaf for Chol Hamoed Pesach

Birkas HaGomel

Thanksgiving Blessing

Blessed are You, L‑rd our G‑d, King of the universe, who bestows good things upon the undeserving, and who has bestowed every goodness upon me. (Amen)

Congregation responds

May He who has bestowed every goodness upon you continue to bestow every goodness upon you forever.

Blessing "Baruch Shepetarani" — the father of the Bar Mitzvah boy says the blessing

Blessed is He who has freed me from the punishment of this one. (Amen)

Mi Shebeirach for a woman who has given birth to a boy — prayer for a woman who has given birth to a baby boy

He who blessed our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses and Aaron, David and Solomon, may He bless the woman who has given birth, (Hebrew name of the woman who gave birth) daughter of (Hebrew name of her mother), together with the son born to her in good fortune, because her husband, the child's father, will give to charity on their behalf, without making a vow. In this merit may they be privileged to bring him into the covenant of Abraham our father, and to raise him to Torah, to the marriage canopy and to good deeds; and let us say, Amen. (Amen)

Mi Shebeirach for a woman who has given birth to a girl

Prayer for a woman who has given birth to a baby girl

He who blessed our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moshe and Aaron, David and Solomon, may He bless the woman who has given birth, (Hebrew name of the woman who gave birth) daughter of (Hebrew name of her mother), together with her daughter who has been born to her in a good hour; and may her name be called in Israel (announce the Hebrew name given to the new baby girl) daughter of (Hebrew name of the baby girl's father), because her husband, the child's father, will give to charity on their behalf, without making a vow. In reward for this, may they raise her to Torah, to marriage and to good deeds; and let us say, Amen. (Amen)

Mi Shebeirach for the sick — prayer for a man in need of healing

He who blessed our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Moses and Aaron, David and Solomon, may He heal (Hebrew name of the man) son of (Hebrew name of the man's mother), because (Hebrew name of the person asking for the blessing) son of (Hebrew name of the father of the person asking for the blessing) will give to charity on his behalf, without making a vow. In this merit may the Holy One, blessed be He, be filled with compassion for him, to restore his health, to heal him, to strengthen him and to revive him; and may He speedily send him from heaven a complete recovery for his two hundred forty-eight limbs and three hundred sixty-five sinews, among the other sick of Israel, a healing of the soul and a healing of the body; and let us say, Amen.

Mi Shebeirach for the sick — prayer for a woman in need of healing

He who blessed our fathers Avraham, Yitzchak and Yaakov, Moshe and Aharon, Dovid and Shlomo, may He heal (Hebrew name of woman) daughter of (Hebrew name of woman's mother), because (Hebrew name of person asking for the blessing) son of (Hebrew name of father of person asking for the blessing) will give to charity on her behalf, without making a vow. In reward for this, may the Holy One, blessed be He, be filled with compassion for her, to restore her to health, to heal her, to strengthen her and to revive her; and may He speedily send her a complete healing from heaven in all her limbs and sinews, among the other sick of Israel, a healing of the soul and a healing of the body; and let us say, Amen.

PLEASE RISE FOR THE LIFTING OF THE TORAH AND SAY:

This is the Torah which Moshe set before the Children of Israel. It is a tree of life for those who hold fast to it, and those who support it are fortunate. Its ways are ways of pleasantness, and all its paths are peace. Long life is in its right hand, and in its left are riches and honor. The L‑rd desired, for the sake of His righteousness, to make the Torah great and glorious.

Musaf for Chol Hamoed Pesach