Parshat Vayigash This week’s haftarah is a selection taken from the latter part of perek 37 in the Book of Yechezkel. This chapter opens with

Parshat Mikeitz-Chanukah There is much that connects this week’s haftarah to the chag of Chanukah. The basis of the rabbinic decision to read a selection

Parshat Vayeishev Sefer Amos, the third of the “minor” prophetic books that comprise Trei Asar, opens with a scathing criticism of those kingdoms that surround

Parshat Vayishlach The Book of Ovadya, which we read this week as our haftarah, focuses upon the sins of Edom, depicting the ultimate destruction of

Parshat Toldot The navi Malachi, whose words echo in today’s haftarah, was the last prophet of Israel. This selection, the opening prophecy of Sefer Malachi,

Parshat Chayei Sarah This week’s haftarah, a selection taken from the opening perek of Sefer Melachim I, focuses upon two seemingly different events. The first

Parshat Vayeira The two stories about the navi Elisha that make up this week’s haftarah closely parallel the events found in our parsha. Clearly, the

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