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    The haftara or (in Ashkenazic pronunciation) haftorah (alt. haftarah, haphtara, Hebrew: הפטרה) "parting," "taking leave" (plural form: haftarot or haftoros)...
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    Judaism and Christianity. His words are read in synagogues as part of the Haftara and he is quoted in the New Testament. Islam also regards Jeremiah as a...
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  • also have a distinct cantillation when reading the Haftara. The Moroccan cantillation for the Haftara can be further subdivided into the tune used by the...
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  • halacha piyyut. The Levush records that "some communities" read the special haftara only when Erev Pesach falls on Shabbat Hagadol (meaning the first seder...
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  • is also used to mark the few verses to be repeated by the reader of the Haftara. In American printings of the Book of Common Prayer, an asterisk is used...
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    Jonathan was read alternately with the selection from Nevi'im (i.e., the haftara). This custom continues today in Yemenite Jewish synagogues. Besides its...
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  • (G. Touaty, 2011). His commentary on biblical prophets "Understand the haftara" "was equally well received (G. Touaty, 2018). These books have received...
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    34 90 91 135 136 33 92 93 Nishmat Torah reading Yom Tov Torah readings Haftara Yekum Purkan Mi Shebeirach Av HaRachamim Mussaf Birkat Cohanim6 Anim Zemirot...
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    of Al-Andalus and Ibrahim bin Umar bin Hasan al-Biqa'i. Aliyah (Torah) Haftara Hebrew Bible Heptateuch Hexapla Jewish Publication Society Jewish Publication...
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    including being called up to the public reading of the Torah or reciting the Haftara on the preceding Shabbat, and sponsoring a synagogue Kiddush in honour...
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    "Samkhaynu/Gladden us" blessing, which is recited after the reading of the Haftara portion on Saturday and holidays. The earliest known text related to Judaism...
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    communities, Yemenite Jews chant different melodies for Torah, Prophets (Haftara), Megillat Aicha (Book of Lamentations), Kohelet (Ecclesiastes, read during...
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    Truth), Yehudah Aryeh Leib of Ger, 19th century Europe The "Pentateuch and Haftaras" by Joseph H. Hertz Uebersetzung und Erklärung des Pentateuchs ("Translation...
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    shabbat, most Sephardic communities recite Ata horeta ladaat. Some of the haftara readings are different than the Ashkenazi practice. Close to the end of...
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  • Avot; "Yafek Ratzon (Constantinople 5353), which is a commentary on the Haftara according to both the Sephardi and Ashkenazi tradition; "Torat Chesed"...
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    to the Yemenite Jewish prayer-rite is the reading of the Torah and the Haftara with the Aramaic translation (in this case, Targum Onkelos for the Torah...
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    34 90 91 135 136 33 92 93 Nishmat Torah reading Yom Tov Torah readings Haftara Yekum Purkan Mi Shebeirach Av HaRachamim Mussaf Birkat Cohanim6 Anim Zemirot...
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  • ha-Rofé also expounds on the meaning of the accompanying verses of the Haftara, in its several sections. Many of the hermeneutical principles used in...
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    Jews traditionally recite the prayer on Shabbat immediately after the haftara during the Torah service; Sephardic Jews also recite it on Yom Kippur....
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    the attitude of Judaism that this very chapter has been assigned for the Haftara for Yom Kippur, the one penitential fast-day of the synagogue. Nevertheless...
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  • 34 90 91 135 136 33 92 93 Nishmat Torah reading Yom Tov Torah readings Haftara Yekum Purkan Mi Shebeirach Av HaRachamim Mussaf Birkat Cohanim6 Anim Zemirot...
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  • must divorce again in a Rabbinical court. Reut wants to cantillate the haftara and convinces the initially reluctant Yochai to teach her. Though rejecting...
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  • the edition accepted by the Chief Rabbinate of Israel for reading the Haftara (prophetic portions) in synagogues when the handwritten parchment scroll...
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  • because the books of the Nevi'im are used for liturgical reading of the haftara. On the other hand, it was exceedingly uncommon to write books of the Kethuvim...
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    practice. The same is done for the readings of the prophets, known as Haftara, in which case the Aramaic Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel is used. The reading...
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  • work of Christian expositors. The Soncino Chumash, covering the Torah and Haftaras, first published in 1947 and frequently reprinted has only the views of...
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  • 363, and containing only the midrash for the Book of Genesis, with its Haftara sections. Dated to the 16th-century.) Sassoon Ms. no. 262 (lacking many...
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  • campers age, with the oldest eidot not only leading, but reading Torah and haftara, and even providing divrei Torah (short speeches about the content and...
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