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TORAH READINGS AND SPECIAL HAFTAROT: A GUIDE Dr. Seth Ward CONTENTS 1. Guide to Special Haftarot for 5780 / Sept 2019 through Dec. 2020 lists all the Weekly Torah Readings (Parashiyot)1 with an indication as to whether the Readings are combined or not, and whether a special Haftarah supersedes the regular Haftarah. This is the only table in this document “unique” to the current year. 2. Table of Weekly Torah Readings and Haftarot lists all 54 Torah Readings and the Haftarot normally associated with them. The typical “Ashkenazi” and “Sephardi” Haftarot are given, with the first few words in Hebrew characters, a way the Haftarot are named in many religious writings, with notes about overlaps and repetitions. 3. Table of Torah Readings for High Holy Days, Festivals, and Special Parashiyot. The first part of the list starts with Rosh Hashanah and gives all the festival readings and Special Parashiyot such as Shekalim and HaHodesh. But, I’ve added all the times the Torah, Haftarah, or one of the Five Megillot are read in the traditional synagogue, including the Israeli practice on Yom HaAtzmaut. 4. Table of Fourteen Liturgical Year Types. There are 14 possible configurations of the Torah readings and Haftarot based on the weekdays on which Rosh Hashanah and Passover occur. (These configurations are called keviyot in Hebrew.) I have never seen a table of these configurations in English, so I have adapted and translated the table with some notes about practice. These tables are useful, but it’s also easy to access a printed or online Jewish calendar or the internet to determine the traditional Torah Reading or Readings and Haftarah for any given date. The exception may be the table of liturgical year types (Table 4) which I have found only in Hebrew-character sources (this does not mean that it does not exist, only that Google did not find it for me). Much of this material was copied from the Internet, and I have not taken the time to completely standardize spelling and transliterations. Some of the sources I used to copy, edit or create these charts were concerned with calculation of the frequency of various types of liturgical years, or how often a Haftarah occurs. Some of the haftarot are recited very infrequently—about 10% of years. This means that projections of haftaroth to be recited until 2030 may not include them even once. I’ve not included this data here. Nor have I included the subdivision of readings, or many other details that could easily have been added. Perhaps most relevant, there is a “standard, traditional” Ashkenazi / Diaspora bias in these tables—Sephardic and Israeli practices are often noted, but the usual traditional Ashkenazi practice in America is mostly what is illustrated, and there has not been an attempt at a comprehensive indication of where, for example, Chabad, Yemenite, Reform or other traditions differ. (In particular, Reform traditions regarding the Torah reading differ, especially on the High Holy Days). --Seth Ward parsha in English. The פרשה The Hebrew terminology can be a bit confusing. We often call the Hebrew word 1 “standard Hebrew” though should be parasha and the plural parashiyot. The term is also used with hashavua “the week” or “weekly,” and then the Hebrew is parashat hashavua (singular) or parashot hashavua (plural). 1. SPECIAL HAFTAROT FOR 5780 (2019-2020) Dr. Seth Ward University of Wyoming Kavod Senior Living HAFTARAH GUIDE For convenience, this Guide starts from the Shabbat following Rosh Hashanah 2019, and continues until the end of December 2020. It indicates regular Shabbat parasha readings with special Haftarot; it does not include Haftarot for Festivals or Fast Days. There are a number of divergent customs for certain situations, and this guide does not indicate them. It follows typical Ashkenazi Disapora practice. *--Asterisk in the Haftarah Guide column indicates that the normal haftarah for that Parasha is read. This is also the case if no comment is in the Haftarah Guide column. In some such cases, explanations in this column are offered even if the regular haftarah is read. *--Asterisk in Parasha Name column indicates that the parasha is often combined with the following parasha in Torah reading. ---- means two parashiyyot are combined this year and the haftarah recited is the one printed for the second of the combined parashiyyot. 5780 is unusual in that all “combining parashiyyot” are combined this year. This only happens when Rosh Hashanah begins on a Tuesday and the first Seder is a Wednesday night. Comments Fall 2019: Nitzavim and Vayelech are read on separate weeks, Vayelekh is Shabbat Shuvah. Shabbat Hanukkah falls on Rosh Hodesh but Shabbat Hanukkah haftarah is read. Fall 2020: Nitzavim and Vayelech are read together. Shabbat Hanukkah is Vayeshev, and the haftarah for Miketz is read, a relatively rare occurrence! Hafsakah: there are 5 special haftaroth in the 7 weeks leading up to Passover. The two Saturdays without special haftaroth are called “Shabbat Hafsakah” “Sabbath of a break [from special readings and hafarot].” V’zot HaBerachah: Read on Simchat Torah; in the Diaspora, never Shabbat morning. Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Ashkenazi tradition is to read Ha-lo kivnei kushiyim (Amos 9:7-15) every year. Thus, this is the Haftarah when the Torah readings Acharei Mot and Kedoshim are read together, as they are every regular year. In leap years, usually one or the other parasha coincides with Rosh Hodesh or Machar Hodesh, with a special Haftarah, and the reading from Amos is read on the other Shabbat. Some Rabbinic authorities suggest that Amos 9:7-15 is properly the Haftarah of Acharei Mot rather than Kedoshim, but most printers give this as the haftarah of Kedoshim, since it is always recited with the double-parashah “Acharei Mot Kedoshim in regular years. Ezekiel 22: 1-16, usually listed as the haftarah of Acharei Mot is recited only when neither parasha is superseded by a special haftarah, which occurs only in leap years in which Rosh Hashanah had begun on a Saturday and Passover on a Tuesday. (Sephardi practice is different). Book Parsha Name Haftarah Guide 5780 Shuvah וַיֵּלֶ ,Devarim (Deuteronomy) Vayelech * הַאֲזִינוּ ,Haazinu (Simchat Torah) * וְ זֹאת הַבְּרָ כָה ,V'Zot HaBerachah * בְּרֵאשִׁ ית ,Bereshit (Genesis) Bereshit * נֹחַ ,Noach * לֶ-לְ ,Lech-Lecha * וַיֵּרָ א ,Vayeira * חַיֵּי שָׂרָ ה ,Chayei Sarah * תּוֹלְדֹת ,Toledot * וַיֵּצֵא ,Vayetze * ִוַיּשְׁ לַח ,Vayishlach * וַיֵּשֶׁ ב ,Vayeshev Shabbat Chanukah I2 מִ קֵּץ ,Miketz * ִוַיּגַּשׁ ,Vayigash * וַיְחִ י ,Vayechi * שְׁ מוֹת ,Shemot (Exodus) Shemot * וָאֵרָ א ,Va'eira * בֹּא ,Bo * בְּשַׁ לַּח ,Beshalach * יִתְ רוֹ ,Yitro Shekalim מִּשְׁ פָּטִ ים ,Mishpatim (hafsakah) * תְּ רוּמָה ,Terumah Zachor תְּ צַוֶּה ,Tetzaveh Parah כִּי תִשָּׂ א ,Ki Tisa ---- וַיַּקְהֵל ,Vayakhel* Ha-Hodesh פְ קוּדֵי ,Pekudei (hafsakah) * ִוַיּקְרָ א ,Vayikra (Leviticus) Vayikra HaGadol צַו ,Tzav * שְּׁמִ ינִי ,Shemini ---- תַ זְרִ יﬠַ ,Tazria* Rosh Hodesh מְּ צֹרָ ע ,Metzora ---- אַחֲרֵ י מוֹת ,Acharei Mot* (HaLo Kivne HaKushiyim) * קְדֹשִׁ ים ,Kedoshim * אֱמֹר ,Emor ---- בְּ הַר ,Behar* * בְּ חֻקֹּתַ י ,Bechukotai 2 In 5780, Shabbat Chanukkah is also Rosh Hodesh. Machar Hodesh בְּמִדְ בַּר ,Bamidbar (Numbers) Bamidbar * נָשֹׂא ,Naso * בְּ הַﬠֲתְ ,Behaalotecha * שְׁ לַח-לְ ,Shlach * קֹרַ ח ,Korach ---- חֻקַּת ,Chukat* * בָּלָק ,Balak 1st of rebuke (“3 Weeks”): Divrei Yirmiyahu (Printed as Haftarat פִּ ינְחָס ,Pinchas Matot) ---- מַּ טּוֹת ,Matot* (2nd of rebuke (Printed as Haftarat Mas’ei מַסְ ﬠֵי ,Masei (3rd of rebuke (Hazon * דְּ בָרִ ים ,Devarim (Deuteronomy) Devarim (1st of Consolation (Nachamu * וָאֶתְ חַנַּן ,Va'etchanan 2nd of Consolation * ﬠֵקֶב ,Eikev 3rd of Consolation * רְ אֵ ה ,Re'eh 4th of Consolation * שֹׁפְטִ ים ,Shoftim 5th of Consolation * כִּ י-תֵצֵא ,Ki Teitzei 6th of Consolation * כִּ י-תָ בוֹא ,Ki Tavo ----- נִצָּבִ ים ,Nitzavim* (Read 7th Haftarah of Consolation (Nitzavim וַיֵּלֶ ,Vayelech Shuvah הַאֲזִינוּ ,Haazinu 5781 (Simchat Torah) * וְ זֹאת הַבְּרָ כָה ,V'Zot HaBerachah Machar Hodesh בְּרֵאשִׁ ית ,Bereshit (Genesis) Bereshit * נֹחַ ,Noach * לֶ-לְ ,Lech-Lecha * וַיֵּרָ א ,Vayeira * חַיֵּי שָׂרָ ה ,Chayei Sarah * תּוֹלְדֹת ,Toledot * וַיֵּצֵא ,Vayetze * ִוַיּשְׁ לַח ,Vayishlach Shabbat Chanukah I וַיֵּשֶׁ ב ,Vayeshev (!Note that regular haftarah of Miketz is said) * מִ קֵּץ ,Miketz * ִוַיּגַּשׁ ,end of 2020) Vayigash) 2. TABLE OF PARASHOT HASHAVUA (WEEKLY READINGS) AND HAFTAROT Dr. Seth Ward University of Wyoming Kavod Senior Living This chart has the regular Torah readings and the Haftarot usually assigned to them by publishers in most Torah editions designed for study or general synagogue use. Differences between Ashkenazi and many Sephardi practices are noted—the typical Sephardic practice is normally in parentheses. The list is not a comprehensive guide to differing traditions though; many communities have further variations. The first few words of the Haftarah are given in Hebrew characters; In many cases, the difference is only where .ס and א Ashkenazi or Sephardi variations may be indicated by Hebrew letter each tradition begins or ends the reading. An asterisk next to the Parashah indicates that the Parashah may combined with the next one in a weekly reading. The Haftarah readings here are according to the usual practice in which there are 3 haftarot of rebuke and 7 of consolation in the ten weeks before Rosh Hashanah. (Maimonides, end of Laws of Prayer, lists the Haftarot related to the Torah Reading, that are “superseded” by these ten special Haftarot.) Parashah Torah Haftarah כֹּה-אָמַ