haftarah

plural haftarahs · plural haftarot · plural haftaroth

1. alternativeAlternative form of Haftarah.

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1. JudaismA 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.

   Every year between Tisha B'av and Rosh Hashanah, we read the Seven Haftarot of Consolation from Isaiah 40-61.

   2024, David Golinkin, “Comfort, Oh Comfort My People”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page ix

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   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.

   1874, Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch, page 320