Haftarah

The Haftarah (Hebrew conclusion, plural: Haftarot ) is the public reading of the prophetic books on Jewish holidays and on the Sabbath. Since the Hebrew Bible has a different arrangement of the individual books, as is usual in Christian Bibles, to be understood not only the known prophets among " prophetic books ", but also various other " history " as the Book of Joshua, Judges, inter alia, (see Tanakh ).

In the Torah was determined that the Torah is to be publicly read aloud. This has been extended by the Rabbis to weekly readings on Shabbat and later on market days Monday and Thursday.

As at later times foreign rulers the Jews were forbidden to learn the Torah, the rabbis assigned to each reading a passage from the prophetic books, which has a content area. This Haftarot were then read instead. As the prohibition of Torah learning was accounted for, the reading of the Haftarot was maintained, so that today each Torah reading is followed by a Haftorah.

According to another tradition Haftarot have been introduced to combat the influence of certain sects which taught only the Torah itself is a holy scripture.

Times

A Haftorah is read alongside the Torah reading on the following days:

• Sabbath
• Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
• Sukkot ( Feast of Tabernacles )
• Passover ( Exodus from Egypt )
• Shavuot ( Feast of Weeks )
• Tisha Beav ( fast day )

Content

Mostly are Haftarot in a more or less content related to that section of the Torah. Example: The first parashah (ie weekly portion ) of the Jewish year, Bereshit 1.1 to 6.8 EU EU, describes the creation of heaven and earth. The Haftorah of Bereshit begins accordingly with the quote Isaiah 42.5:

"Thus saith God the Lord, Who created the heavens and stretched them ..."

In addition, there are whole periods in the liturgical year in which the Haftarot were selected content not on the parasha, but after the relevant period.

There are differences in the allocation of Haftarot to the respective sections by Ashkenazi and Sephardic week, sometimes even after Portuguese or Yemeni tradition.

The Haftarot are usually much shorter than the Torah portions to which they belong. While the Torah is publicly read in their entirety, provide Haftarot only excerpts from the other books of the Tanakh dar.

Lecturer

At the end of the Torah reading ( after the call to seven or five men or women, Hebrew aliyoth ) is called the maftir. The course of the conclusion of the respective Toraabschnittes is repeated here. On holidays or special Sabbaths, in part, another section from a second Torah scroll is read. Then the maftir submits the Haftarah. Just as the Torah after a specific notation to sing, as well as the Haftorah has its own melody.