Parshat Ki Tavo The haftarah selection that is read this week is taken from Sefer Yeshayahu, as all the seven haftarot of consolation are, and
Parashat Shoftim The two perakim from which this week’s haftarah is taken, chapters 51 and 52 of sefer Yishayahu, continue the overarching theme of consolation
Parshat Re’eh Throughout the seven haftarot of consolation that follow Tish’a B’Av, the navi Yeshayahu presents us with descriptions of the final redemption and return
Parshat Ekev When I began writing this column some years ago, I did so for a number of basic reasons. Firstly, I realized that these
Parshat Va’etchanan/ Shabbat Nachamu “L’eylah min kol birchata v’shirata, tushb’chata v’nechemata da’amiran b’olma…” The familiar words of the Kaddish express the fact that Hashem is
Parshat Masei This week’s haftarah, the second of the three pre-Tisha B’Av haftarot of condemnation, is taken from the second perek of Sefer Yirmiyahu and
With this week’s haftarah, we introduce a new function for the weekly prophetic selection. Until this point, the purpose of the haftarah was to strike
Parshat Shelach The well-known story related to us in our haftarah this week, the story of Yehoshua’s spies and the events that took place in
Parshat Beha’alotcha The haftarah that we read this Shabbat is one quite familiar to most of us. As it is read both for Chanukah and
Shavuot Shavuot, the anniversary of Hashem’s revelation to Bnei Yisrael at Har Sinai, is never identified as such in the Torah. Rather, its significance is
Machar Chodesh Parshat Bamidbar The story related in this week’s haftarah, a special one read when Shabbat coincides with Erev Rosh Chodesh, is found in
Parshiyot Behar-Bechukotai After describing the brachot that Hashem will bestow upon a faithful nation of Israel, the parsha spends the bulk of its remainder detailing
