Talk:Haftarah

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Contents 1 Length of article 2 Other traditions 3 {{Torah portion}} 4 What is Haftarah read from?

[edit] Length of article

Even though this article is incomplete, it's definitely more than a stub, so I'm going to remove the notice - Night Gyr 08:03, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Other traditions

Nevi'im notes that Yemenites translate the haftarah verse by verse. That information should be included here, too, when someone writes about the procedure for reading the haftarah. —msh210 19:11, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] {{Torah portion}}

{{Torah portion}} does not belong on this page; it's irrelevant (and too long btw).—msh210℠ 19:10, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

• Hi msh: (1) The Haftarah and the weekly Torah reading of the Parsha (Torah portion) are both part of the services on Shabbat. The Haftarah comes after the Maftir as the last part of each Shabbat's Torah reading. (2) The ancient Jewish sages who created the system of reading the Haftarah with the weekly Torah portion chose sections from Tanakh for the Haftarah to match a major a major theme in each week's Parsha, so that the Parsha and Hafatarah are intrinsically connected. (3) The template {{Torah portion}} is at the bottom of the Haftarah article's page, so essentially it's part of the "See also" section which is a legitimate way of connecting related and connected topics on an article. (4) If a reader finds the {{Torah portion}} to be "too intrusive" then any reader is free to click "Hide" on the top right section of the template's heading which shrinks it to an unobtrusive one liner. Finally, (5) the {{Torah portion}} is presently diligently updated weekly by User:Dauster early each Sunday so that any readers may learn more about the weekly Parsha. User:Dauster summarizes each week's Parsha and adds some interesting graphics which surely adds life and color to a page that may gain the attention of readers who don't know much about this subject and may want to learn more. Please refer all further comments and discussions to one centralized location at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Judaism#Template: Torah portion Thank you. IZAK 07:22, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] What is Haftarah read from?

Is there a special scroll for this too, or is a "book-shaped" book used? Is a book of all the Nevi'im used or one that contains only the various Haftarah portions? Where is the book stored? -- 77.7.128.202 18:14, 3 September 2007 (UTC)