High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Vayeira, Vayera, or Va-yera (וַיֵּרָא - Hebrew for "and He appeared," the first word in the parshah) is the fourth weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading. It constitutes Genesis 18:1-22:24 Jews read it on the fourth Sabbath after Simchat Torah, generally in October or November.