[Avodah] Haftaras Mishpatim

[Micha Berger]

R Gershon Dubin asked on Areivim how many of us were in shuls that
deviated from the haftorah as printed in most chamushim: Yirmiyahu
34:8-22, and then 33:25-26. The motive for the skip is to end the haftorah
on a happier note.

However, the SA OC 144:1 as explained by the MB s"q 9 that you can't
read the haftorah lemafreia'. The MA s"q 4 ties it (based on context)
to Terei Asar in particular, and then asks why the SA limits it --
since one can't read any navi lemafreia'. IOW, the MA has a comma
between the discussion of going from book to book in Terei Asar and
"as long as you don't read lemafreia'", whereas the MB has a period.
But both acknowledge that you don't read a haftorah lemafreia'.

Which would rule out skipping backwards from the end of 34 back to 33:25!

The Rambam's siddur, at the end of Sefer Ahavah, has the haftorah as 34:1,
34:8 or 35:1 -- the words "HaDavar asher hayah el Yirmiyahu me'eis H'"
appear at all three so it's ambiguous -- through 35:19 (the end of 35).

R' Chaim Brown in his blog similarly quotes R' Chaim Kanievsky in his
seifer Taamei Diqra that one should instead just keep on going through
pereq 35 to the end.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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