Feb 16, 2023
The Arba Parashiot: More than Meets the Eye, by Rav Yitzchak Etshalom
The annual cycle of Keriat haTorah is punctuated in the weeks before Pesach with the addition of the "Arba Parashiot" - four special readings read as the Maftir on those weeks. We analyze the historic-halakhic reality of this practice, along with the hashkafic implications of these readings, coming as they do in the weeks leading up to Pesach.