. "Shemini, Sh'mini, or Shmini (\u05E9\u05B0\u05BC\u05C1\u05DE\u05B4\u05D9\u05E0\u05B4\u05D9 \u2013 Hebrew for \"eighth,\" the third word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 26th weekly Torah portion (\u05E4\u05B8\u05BC\u05E8\u05B8\u05E9\u05B8\u05C1\u05D4, parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the book of Leviticus. It constitutes Leviticus 9:1\u201311:47."@en . . .