What Is the Haftarah? Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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okay everybody Shalom uh did this m begin yesterday or today I didn't yesterday okay I yeah okay seemed like it was a quiet day yesterday for some reason okay anyway um obviously you know our Shar is a devoted to and we're doing Yeshua but I wanted to continue a digression and just finish a thought about the now you'll see although s t is long gone although I hope the s t will remain um but it is something that's no generally so I think it's worthwhile to share with you and that is we know that on shabas and we have a t and the is followed with a half Torah which is from the is from thees and is from the Nim uh when I was a young man around six years old or something and I first heard about the idea of haor and I didn't know what ha Torah meant so I figured it out I said well you know n is less Kad than the Torah so ha Torah means it's half Torah it's like half it's only like half of the Torah but um when I got to havdalah I couldn't I couldn't make sense of it so that so it broke down at that particular point but the actual translation of is to announce meaning it was a public announcement of the teachings of the Nan now what is the origin of ha Torah like where does ha Torah come from mean meaning why why were Kaz that a Torah reading should be

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1. 0:00okay everybody Shalom uh did this m begin yesterday or today I didn't yesterday okay I…
2. 3:18a was not to add on to the Torah but it was a replacement at a…
3. 7:13year they actually ate on Yumer the Sim ofas overd the prohibition of fasting on Yumer…
4. 10:27sim T so everyone's always going to say because that's when we finish the Torah but…
5. 14:14the you know it's hard to know Ian we we we don't have a record actually…
6. 17:29too many Jews there but there are some Jews there actually I know a a woman…
7. 21:12Torah on Sim Torah we was a three-year cycle we still read Z because of the…
8. 24:24New based on that the story of yua is very important because that is the transition…
9. 28:05after T now it's it's kind of a downer he says what do we do now…
10. 31:18it's for so we consider to be the culmination of so that's a but is is…

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