The haftara or (in Ashkenazic pronunciation) haftorah (alt. haftarah, haphtara, Hebrew: הפטרה) "parting," "taking leave" (plural form: haftarot or haftoros)...

religious practice. The Haftarah reading follows the Torah reading on each Shabbat and on Jewish festivals and fast days. The Haftarah readings do not contain...

sometimes given to a child under Bar Mitzvah age. On days when a haftarah is read (see Haftarah below), there is a final aliyah after the kaddish, called maftir...

notation. The same is true of the Karaite mode for the haftarah; while in the Sephardi haftarah modes different disjunctives often have the same or closely...

Shabbat Shuvah comes from the first word of the Haftarah that is read on that day; the main haftarah consists of Hosea 14:2–10 and this is all that is...

mornings: this person also reads (or at least recites the blessings overs) the haftarah portion from a related section of the Nevi'im (prophetic books). Informally...

4: Exodus 12:37–42 Reading 5: Exodus 12:43–51 Maftir: Numbers 28:16–25 Haftarah: Joshua 3:5–7, 5:2–6:1, 6:27 When the first day of Passover falls out on...

system of synagogal reading of Ketuvim equivalent to the Torah portion and haftarah. It is thought that there was once a cycle for reading the Psalms, parallel...

custom that the haftarah of Acharei Mot is read for Kedoshim whenever Acharei Mot is pre-empted by a special haftarah, the haftarah of Kedoshim is read...

Talmud took Hannah as an exemplar of prayer. The story of Hannah is the Haftarah reading for Rosh Hashanah. The Hebrew form of the name "Saul" is shaul...