Haftarah

haftarah English Alternative forms en haftarah en Haftorah, en haftorah en Haftara, en haftara en haphtara en haphtarah Etymology From en he הַפְטָרָה haftará, also through en yi הפֿטרה haftore. The alternative spellings with -or- and pronunciations with /ɔːɹ/ – which may appear even outside of Ashkenazi pronunciation traditions – may possibly be strengthened due to influence from en Torah or reanalysis to en half + en Torah, as the haftarah follows the reading of the Torah and is of secondary importance. Pronunciation en /ˌhɑːftɑːˈɹɑː/ /ˌhɑːftəˈɹɑː/ /həfˈtʌ.ɹə/ /həfˈtɔː.ɹə/ Noun Haftarot Haftaros s Haftaroth en Q929389en Judaism A selection from the books of Nevi'im and Ketuvim of the Tanach, usually corresponding to the week's parashah, publicly read in synagogue following the parashah. en Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch 1874 Recent scholars, on the other hand, without much show of reason, as it would appear, variously hold the Haftarah to have sprung from the sermon or homiletic exercise which accompanied the reading in the Pentateuch, and took its exordium (as Haftarah, by an extraordinary linguistic passage, adapted in a manner to the Mosaic text under consideration; or, again, they imagine the Haftarah to have taken its rise spontaneously during the exile itself, and that Ezra retained and enforced it in Palestine. 320 https://books.google.com/books?id=nxcOAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Haftarah%22&pg=PA320#v=onepage&q=%22Haftarah%22&f=false en 2024 David Golinkin Responsa in a Moment 4 Comfort, Oh Comfort My People ix Every year between Tisha B'av and Rosh Hashanah, we read the Seven Haftarot of Consolation from Isaiah 40-61.