Parshat Beha’alotcha This week’s haftarah is one that is quite familiar to us as it is read twice each year: on Shabbat Chanukah as well

Parshat Naso Our haftarah this week relates to us the well-known story of Shimshon HaGibor. Over the past few years I have written about the

Parshat Bamidbar Sefer Hoshea from which this week’s haftarah is taken is the first book of Trei Asar, the collection of 12 “minor” (read: smaller)

Parshat Va’era I have always felt a special connection to the haftarah that we read this week. This selection from Sefer Yechezkel (28; 25–29; 21)

Parshat Behar The navi Yirmiyahu has been referred to as the “prophet of doom,” the seer who was vilified by many of his contemporaries for

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

Parshiyot Acharei Mot-Kedoshim The Book of Vayikra revolves around “Mikdash,” i.e., both the eventual Beit Hamikdash and the already completed Mishkan, beginning with the laws

Parshat Acharei Mot “Machar Chodesh” The story related in this week’s haftarah, a special one read when Shabbat coincides with Erev Rosh Chodesh, is found

First Day of Pesach The haftarah for the first day of Pesach focuses, understandably, upon the first korban Pesach offered in Eretz Yisrael, only a

Shabbat HaGadol/Parshat Metzora Over the years, we have struggled to understand why this selection from the navi Malachi, the very final words of the last

Shabbat HaChodesh Parshat Tazria As we have mentioned in these pages before, the closing chapters of Sefer Yechezkel focus upon the laws and practices that

The special haftarah read this week, Shemini parshat Parah, is a selection taken from sefer Yechezkel where the navi delivers his words of prophecy to