Parshat Lech Lecha This week’s haftarah, like the two that preceded it, is found in Sefer Yeshayahu. However, unlike those selections whose messages focus on

This week’s haftarah, familiar to us as one of the post-Tisha B’Av haftarot of consolation, is a most fitting choice for the parsha of Noach.

On Yom Kippur, we are privileged to read two haftarot: the first, read during Shacharit, is taken from Sefer Yishayahu, while the second haftarah, read

Parshat Lech Lecha The 40th perek of Sefer Yeshayahu, which opens with the words “Nachamu, Nachamu Ami,” is quite well-known to shul-goers as it is

Throughout these studies of the weekly haftarot it has become clearer and clearer to me how often the preceding vision of the navi clarifies our

Parshat Ki Teitzei This week’s prophetic selection, the third and fifth in the series of seven haftarot of consolation, is taken from the 54th and

Shabbat Rosh Chodesh Parshat Re’eh This Shabbat is Rosh Chodesh as well, and as a result we take a “break” from the series of “consolation”

Parshat Eikev The tragic words that open this week’s haftarah (“Vatomer Tziyon azavani Hashem Vashem shechechani”) reflect the hopelessness of post-exile Zion who exclaims that

Parshat Devarim Shabbat Chazon The first perek of Sefer Yeshayahu, which we read each year on the Shabbat before Tisha B’Av, is chanted in the

Parshat Pinchas This Shabbat we inaugurate the three-week mourning period that precedes Tisha B’Av with the reading of the first perek in Sefer Yirmiyahu, in

Parshat Balak This week’s haftarah reading, taken from Sefer Micha, would appear to have little in common with our Torah reading beyond the mention of

Parshat Chukat Although we often search to find a connection between the parsha and its haftarah, we have no need to wonder about Chazal’s selection