The custom of reading the Haftarah, originated in Israel. The Haftarah is taken from the section of Navi and read on the actual Shabbis that its Prophesy was revealed (historically). The Haftarah was ...
In a 1980 lecture on Parshat Vayishlach, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik explored the idea that just as each holiday’s Torah reading has its own special motif, so, too, each parsha in the Torah has its ...
Politics, the haftarah reminds us, is not inherently corrupt. It becomes corrupt when it forgets that leadership is service, not self-promotion. The haftarah for “Chayei Sarah” (I Kings 1:1-31) reads ...