For some 2,000 years, the practice at every Jewish congregation on Shabbos morning has been to read a weekly portion from the Torah followed by a reading from the books of the prophets, the haftarah.
\nDespite the haftarah?s antiquity and universality, we know little about its origin or purpose. No record appears to have survived informing us of the names, dates, and locations of the people who established the haftarah. We also have no record of the reasons for pairing particular verses from the books of the prophets with a particular parsha, other than what can be learned from the prophetic verses themselves.
\nThis groundbreaking work attempts to identify the relationship between each haftarah and its parsha ? and explores how this connection remains pertinent today.
\nRichard Golden was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1945. After graduating from college (University of Pennsylvania) and law school (University of Chicago), he moved to Brooklyn in 1970, where he continues to<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For some 2,000 years, the practice at every Jewish congregation on Shabbos morning has been to read a weekly portion from the Torah followed by a reading from the books of the prophets, the haftarah.
\nDespite the haftarah?s antiquity and universality, we know little about its origin or purpose. No record appears to have survived informing us of the names, dates, and locations of the people who established the haftarah. We also have no record of the reasons for pairing particular verses from the books of the prophets with a particular parsha, other than what can be learned from the prophetic verses themselves.
\nThis groundbreaking work attempts to identify the relationship between each haftarah and its parsha ? and explores how this connection remains pertinent today.
\nRichard Golden was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1945. After graduating from college (University of Pennsylvania) and law school (University of Chicago), he moved to Brooklyn in 1970, where he continues to
For some 2,000 years, the practice at every Jewish congregation on Shabbos morning has been to read a weekly portion from the Torah followed by a reading from the books of the prophets, the haftarah.
\nDespite the haftarah?s antiquity and universality, we know little about its origin or purpose. No record appears to have survived informing us of the names, dates, and locations of the people who established the haftarah. We also have no record of the reasons for pairing particular verses from the books of the prophets with a particular parsha, other than what can be learned from the prophetic verses themselves.
\nThis groundbreaking work attempts to identify the relationship between each haftarah and its parsha ? and explores how this connection remains pertinent today.
\nRichard Golden was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1945. After graduating from college (University of Pennsylvania) and law school (University of Chicago), he moved to Brooklyn in 1970, where he continues to<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":2243394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[465,460,461],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35914","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-commentaries-on-chumash-sifrei-kodesh","7":"product_cat-english","8":"product_cat-sifrei-kodesh","10":"first","11":"outofstock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n