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

Parshat Emor Parshat Emor that we read this week continues the theme of sanctity that marked last week’s parsha of Kedoshim and dedicates its first

First Day of Pesach In a very real sense, this first day of Pesach celebrates not only the beginning of the redemption, but its completion

Shabbat HaGadol Parshat Tzav Over these many years, I have always understood this week’s haftarah selection from the final chapter in the book of the

Parshat  Vayakhel-Pekudei Shabbat HaChodesh This Shabbat, we read from two sifrei Torah: in the first Torah we read the parsha itself, and in the second

Parshat Ki Tisa Shabbat Parah The opening of this week’s haftarah selection from Sefer Yechezkel is somewhat puzzling for the student of Tanach. The 36th