[Avodah] Parshas Parah

[Simon Montagu]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Michael Makovi <mikewinddale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Cantor Wolberg <cantorwolberg at cox.net>
> wrote:
> > There is a machlokes amongst the Poskim whether the reading of Parshas
> Parah
> > is a Torah obligation today.
> > ri
>
> What I'm curious about: It says of Parshat Parah "zocher", and the
> Gemara says that zocher means read it from a Sefer Torah.
>
> But if so, we have five other zochers in the Torah (see your Artscroll
> siddur after Shacharit - page 176f in the Nusach Ashkenaz), but in
> only two of the six zochers do we read anything from a Sefer Torah.
>
>
I was going to say that in all these cases we read the pesukim themselves
from the Sefer Torah during the annual cycle.

But this prompts the inverse question: why do we need Parshat Zachor? We
read the same pesukim every year in Parashat Ki Tetze, why aren't we yotzei
from that?
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